EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH RUBENS CHARLES THE ‘BACK ASSASSIN’ –COBRINHA- MACIEL
California, Retirement, BJJ and Announcing the first West Coast Cobrinha Affiliate!
We at Baca’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Sherman Oaks, CA had the great honor of having the one and only Rubens Charles Maciel ‘Cobrinha’ teach an exclusive 2 day seminar August 7th & 8th of 2010 here at our school in Sherman Oaks, CA. Cobrinha is not only a phenomenal Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner but a genuinely kind and honorable man. His resume extends not only the written page but the pages of time and BJJ history as well. We are proud to announce that we are the first West Coast Cobrinha affiliate in which we proudly represent Alliance as well. We hold that title with honor and pride. I had the great privilege of sitting down with Cobrinha for an exclusive interview. He freely answers many of your questions and a few surprises!
See the full interview on our Facebook page at:http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=1642131523
You should have asked him if anyone could pass his guard as a white belt.
Can someone post the interview here?
Cant see the link for some reason...
What a fail thread.
Nice interview. Not cool though how he trashes his own teammate Bernardo Faria. He was also probably referring to his own student Michael Langi too ;)
"Some people they go just for the medal. That is really sad. That slows down the sport. When you go over there and fight of course sometimes you cannot finish your opponent but the philosophy of Jiu-Jitsu is you have to solve your problem. You have to finish. So wherever you are you have to try to finish. Because if you don’t finish somebody else is going to solve their problem and finish you. That brings it down when people only fight for medals. Just to say they won. That would be a really boring show to watch on TV. Lol."
Took awhile to finally find it- thanks mchapman.
Great interview.
I lovvvvvvve Cobrinha!
P2 - Nice interview. Not cool though how he trashes his own teammate Bernardo Faria. He was also probably referring to his own student Michael Langi too ;)
Troll
How am I trolling?
Stupid troll.
No troll. I’m just not a hypocrite like yourself.
Let’s look at some of the Alliance gold medals at blackbelt keeping in mind the quote from Cobrinha above:
Malfacine wins by advantage. His opponent Caio Terra was the one attacking submissions.
Langi wins by ref’s decisions. No submissions attempted.
Faria wins 2 x 0 with a sweep. Once on top he blatantly avoided trying to pass Xande’s guard.
I still dont see how Cobrinha is trashing his teammates or anyone in particular.
He believes that bjj should be used to finish your opponents.
What's the big deal? Sure there are competitors from all teams that would rather win by points and advantages. Doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that his comment isnt exclusive of Alliance competitors.
Aside from submissions, etc., I wonder what Cobrinha thinks about BJJ belts.
He just came to Korea--for a shit load of money--and gave a black belt to a total chump. Oh well.
^^^ more info
^^^ Holy crap, did Cobrinha give a black belt to Mickey Choi or something?
Edited because it's all second hand to me.
P2 - No troll. I’m just not a hypocrite like yourself.
Let’s look at some of the Alliance gold medals at blackbelt keeping in mind the quote from Cobrinha above:
Malfacine wins by advantage. His opponent Caio Terra was the one attacking submissions.
Langi wins by ref’s decisions. No submissions attempted.
Faria wins 2 x 0 with a sweep. Once on top he blatantly avoided trying to pass Xande’s guard.
Have you watched any of Michael Langhi or Bruno Malfacines other fights? Both of those guys finish people all the time, the fact that they were facing incredible competition(caio and Celso are both former world champs) and couldn't impose there will on them doesn't mean they aren't excellent finishers.
what is the belt story?
John Frankl - Aside from submissions, etc., I wonder what Cobrinha thinks about BJJ belts.
He just came to Korea--for a shit load of money--and gave a black belt to a total chump. Oh well.
I found this interesting, so I did some googling.
Looks like his black belt got third as a brown last year at Rooster (dont know if there were many competitors or not), and he was a purple in a post dating back to 2005.
Surely, he can't be that bad?
Anyways, I talked to Cobrinha in Atlanta and asked him how many direct black belts he has. He told me only Michael Langhi and this Korean fellow.
Doens't seem like he is watering it too much? I trust his integrity and honor.