Pete The Greek Wrist Lock the World Seminar

5139 West 140th Street,Brook Park OH 44142

05 November, 2022

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On Saturday, November 5th, 1-Up Jiu Jitsu Presents: Pete "The Greek" Letsos Wrist Lock The World Seminar! The seminar will run from noon to 3 pm. The presale cost is $80. A limited number of tickets will be sold so please sign up early. This will be a Gi seminar for all levels. Pete The Greek Letsos Biography: Peter Letsos was born on the 31st of December 1979, in Chicago – United States of America. He found Jiu Jitsu like many other fighters of his generation, after watching the early UFC’s and the domination displayed by Royce Gracie in the first editions of the event. He decided to join Carlson Gracie Junior’s academy in 1996/97, Carlson was the son of the grappling legend Carlson Gracie (Senior) and grandson to Carlos Gracie, founder of the Gracie Jiu Jitsu academy. In 2002 after several years training with the Carlson Gracie academy in Chicago, Pete decided to make a trip to Brazil and train at the headquarters there. Sadly, he arrived at the team’s most troubled period, the time when many of its black belts split from the academy to form BTT (Brazilian Top Team). As the Jiu Jitsu team was scarce at the time there, Pete decided to train a few times with their MMA team, which had in it’s roster Jorge “Navalhada”, Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante, Luiz Firmino “Buscapé” and many others. Making the most of his time in Rio de Janeiro, Pete also took the opportunity to have private lessons with another legendary figure, Mr Cassio Cardoso. The 3 week journey that Letsos intended to have ended up being prolonged and before he knew it, 4 years had passed in which Letsos trained amongst some of the best competitors of the 1990’s and 2000’s, including the famous Gracie Barra team with whom he trained and competed for. Pete The Greek’s guard passing game was well respected, this allowed him a spot at the Gracie Barra Team, at the Brazilian National Teams tournament when he was a purple belt (2002). The Greek also spent some time with master Osvaldo Alves, and as his money ran out, Pete lived in Alves’s gym, cleaning the mats to pay for his tuition. After that he spent a few months living in Sao Paulo at Andre Galvão‘s house and training with Terere at the extinct “TT” academy, one of the strongest of the decade. He returned to the “Windy City” where he earned his brown belt from Carlson Gracie Jr. He was also invited by world champion and MMA fighter BJ Penn and spent time at his gym in Hawaii. In 2006 Pete the Greek received his black belt, again from his instructor Carlson Junior, a year later he opened his own academy Rio Jiu Jitsu.