Tell me everything that i should know on the guy....
Just how damn good is he?
Does he still compete?
What are his biggest achievments from competition?
For his weight, where would you rank him (at his best and as of right now)?
His biggest win was....?
Dude looks like a fucking beast.
His book is great! He used to be a team member of the all star TT Team with Terre, Tellus, Cobrinha and others. Now is one of the top dogs with Atos. Has academy in San Diego and has actually beaten Braulio Estima a couple times never Marcelo though. Guy is for sure one of the best in the world. 
How good is he? Ive been on the mats for 16 years and am a black belt in BJJ. I trained privately with him last winter and I got tired in side control. I was on top. Trying to keep him from reversing me. The guy is amazing.
You passed his guard?
A few years back when he was at the top of his jiu-jitsu he won the absolute division at the Pan Ams which is no easy feat for someone his size.
J-Sho can answer all those questions plus more .
Im sure he was going way less than 100% when I got cross side lol
IMO, if he can't overpower his opponents then he has a very hard time with them. for example, he got beat convincingly by popovitch when he was unable to power out to escape positions.
Biggy - IMO, if he can't overpower his opponents then he has a very hard time with them. for example, he got beat convincingly by popovitch when he was unable to power out to escape positions. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
to be fair, i would say theres only about 1% of the human population that can escape from Pablo's positions. maybe 1% is too high?
and andre beat Big Mac to win the absolute at the pans a few years back, and i'm fairly certain he didn't overpower him.
omoplautistic - to be fair, i would say theres only about 1% of the human population that can escape from Pablo's positions. maybe 1% is too high?
Way too high. 70,000,000 people?
suBJJective warMTh -omoplautistic - to be fair, i would say theres only about 1% of the human population that can escape from Pablo's positions. maybe 1% is too high?
Way too high. 70,000,000 people?
no one ever accused me of having math skills.
so ya, less than that.
like....a lot less. maybe add a decimal point and some zeroes ahead of that 1.
i'm not looking for an actual number here, i'm trying to say NOT MANY PEOPLE.
I used to train with Math, but we had a falling out, and now i just say bad things about her on the internets.
galvao first match in Adcc 2009 he went up against a wrestler whom u could clearly see couldn't be bullied and who was engaging him. galvao started seriously gassing and the match went into overtime. finally with a couple minutes left he pulls off a nice technical roll from turtle to score and win. I'm not saying he's not good but u could clearly see the difficulty he had when he couldn't over power his opponent as compared to most his matches.
Chris Weidman was this wrestler that Galvao was against, and I think it was his second match.
Galvao struggled with him greatly.
galvao is better in the GI imo. hes good no gi but hes amazing in the gi.
Biggy - IMO, if he can't overpower his opponents then he has a very hard time with them. for example, he got beat convincingly by popovitch when he was unable to power out to escape positions. <img src="/images/phone/post_tag.png" alt="Phone Post" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle;"/>
Nothing wrong with using strength to win matches. Being stronger than your opponent can be just as important as being more technical.
Good guy, great athlete, good judo, great balance and conditioning.
Performed very well at the lower belts. Took double gold at brown belt at the Mundials (joining a prestigious list with roger, jacare, PDP etc)
Gi World champ in 2 weights (only he, Sergio moraes and saulo have done so iirc), repeatedly failed to handle Marcelo in gi or no gi, presumably drove him to compete heavier.
Won his medio title when Marcelo was injured, had to gift gold to Lucas Leite in 2007 because (I assume) he had just joined Brasa and Leite was the senior man.
Beat Braulio by sub in 2008 but Carcara had just come back from a knee op and was not in form, lost to him by sub in the finals at ADCC 2009.
Has mauled some former greats in competition including Elvis.
As mentioned above, seems to struggle when he can't overwhelm someone with his physicality/athleticism, buthge isn't alone in that regard in BJJ.
As for the popovitch match, as above, iirc galvao had just joined Brasa and fought both semi finals in 2007 against new teammates (Popovitch and Drysdale) who both went on to face Marcelinho.
You arent allowed to stand aside in adcc so it was speculated at the time he gifted his senior teammates and easy match so Pablo and drysdale would be fresher for the finals.
JSho, when was Popovitch Brasa?
i did classes with andre for a few days here in toronto and while he wasnt rolling cause he just fought. i will tell you he is VERY technically gifted.. all he showed me is stuff i used right away and to this day.
results speak for itself i think for grappling atos seems to be a small but very serious crew of talented guys