Speaking of foot/leglocks and his nickname, which I think means shoemaker, when I trained with him he generally didn't teach much leglocks other than some traditional stuff. I think because it is frowned upon for development of bjj technique and also he wanted to be more widely respected as a bjj instructor/competitor and not that sambo guy that does bjj.
Paulo749 -bmorela3 - pretty sure anyone who's ever trained/rolled with lloyd will tell you how good of a grappler he isThat's besides the point. I have a white belt that is really good, should I give him a brown belt?
how much $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ we talking about?
This is not my claim, nor am I questioning his skills. But if this is true, it just shows that his character and motivations were suspect from the very beginning.
"As far as Lloyds Blackbelt that was asked about in another thread. Allot of people have info on that too, but I dont know about this myself...
Apparently Leo Dalla was kicked out of Jorge perieras association because he sold Lloyd his blackbelt for 10k. thats the exact amount that Jorge has said. Now heres the thing, apparently lloyd actually was very athletic and a competitive purple and what he actually paid for was an acceleration realizing that a BB was worth its weight in gold then. He basically went from purple to black in a matter of months.
As far as the 3 yr blackbelt claim. There is video of the NYC grappling challenge where Lloyd is getting choked out in advanced division by flavio almeida almost 3 yrs before he claims to have ever started bjj." - fuzzy badfeet 
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This is going by Irvin's self-reported promotion history:
1998: He reports to the Alliance website that his current rank is purple belt under Dalla, and that he is training with Jacare C.
Oct 1999: He reports on his school webpage that he is a BJJ brown belt, promoted by Dalla (in Brazil), and that he continues to train under Jacare.
Jan 2001: He reports being promoted to BJJ BB by Dalla.
In 2001 he listed his competition accomplishments as:
Lloyd Irvin is the current G.A.M.E. Lt. Heavy Champion
Current U.S. Valetudo Lt. Heavy Champion
Lloyd is the first American to compete in the National Brazilian
Team Championships in Rio
1999 Silver Medalist - Campeonato Brasileiro De Equipes
(National Brazilian Team Championships)
1999 Combat Sombo National and Pan American Champion 198lbs
1999 Combat Sombo National and Pan American Outstanding Competitor
1999 Combat Sombo National and Pan American (ASA)Team Captain/Coach
1998 U.S. Combat Sombo National Champion 198-220lbs
1997 Gracie Open Jiu-Jitsu Lt. Heavy Champion
1996 Virginia Free Fighting Lt. Heavy Champion
1996 Yamasaki-Dalla Jiu-Jitsu Champion
Soldiers of Submission - Team Captain
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The G.A.M.E. title is supported by the following (from the GAME website) which shows LI was training under Dalla in 1996
May 4th, 1996 Quigley High School, attendance 80
Junior heavyweight division:
- Mike Hoven beat Jean Paul Goncalves (choke 1:01)
- Mike Hoven beat Jim Elliott (8:00 - Elliot blew out knee and withdrew)
- Llyod Irvin beat Dan Fradin (choke 6:00)
- Llyod Irvin beat David Denis (choke 8:00)
- Jean Paul Goncalves beat Tim Pointer (choke 14:00)
- Jim Blawas and Marvin Gibson drew
- Dan Fradin beat Jim Blawas (triangle choke 1:30)
- Leonardo Dalla beat Mike Hoven (armbar 0:15)
- David Denis and Marvin Gibson drew
- Llyod Irvin beat Jean Paul Goncalves (armbar 0:30)
- Llyod Irvin beat Jim Blawas (choke 0:40)
- Llyod Irvin crowned tournament Jr. heavyweight champion as Leonardo Dalla forfeited the match to him (he is Dalla's student)
The guy is a bag of shit 