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Gabriel “Biel” Rainho is based in Berlin, but oversees the operations for all GF Team affiliates in Europe. He is a Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt from the Grappling Fight Team (GF Team) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gabriel was born on the 28th of December, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started practicing BJJ when he was 6 years old together with his cousins, today accomplished BJJers and black belts themselves: Vinicius Marinho, Joao Alfredo and Felipe Tavares, all encouraged by their parents who believed in the benefits of sports in a child’s education. Gabriel’s first coach was Master Laerte Barcelos. It was Barcelos who awarded Gabriel his blue belt; he then changed to the Universidade Gama Filho academy (which later changed name and became GFT) and received all his further belts from Master Julio Cesar, including his black belt in 2003 when Biel was only 23 years old.
He has won a variety of titles across Brazil and Europe numerous times.
Gabriel has been living in Europe since 2011, and taught BJJ and NoGi Grappling in London and Munich in the past, moreover hosting seminars all over Europe for the past three years. Since October 2014, Gabriel has been based in Berlin.
Gabriel also teaches BJJ and NoGi Grappling at the Freie Universität Berlin, and Judo to children at the Nelson Mandela School and Berlin British School.
Gabriel “Biel” Rainho is based in Berlin, but oversees the operations for all GF Team affiliates in Europe. He is a Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt from the Grappling Fight Team (GF Team) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gabriel was born on the 28th of December, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started practicing BJJ when he was 6 years old together with his cousins, today accomplished BJJers and black belts themselves: Vinicius Marinho, Joao Alfredo and Felipe Tavares, all encouraged by their parents who believed in the benefits of sports in a child’s education. Gabriel’s first coach was Master Laerte Barcelos. It was Barcelos who awarded Gabriel his blue belt; he then changed to the Universidade Gama Filho academy (which later changed name and became GFT) and received all his further belts from Master Julio Cesar, including his black belt in 2003 when Biel was only 23 years old.
He has won a variety of titles across Brazil and Europe numerous times.
Gabriel has been living in Europe since 2011, and taught BJJ and NoGi Grappling in London and Munich in the past, moreover hosting seminars all over Europe for the past three years. Since October 2014, Gabriel has been based in Berlin.
Gabriel also teaches BJJ and NoGi Grappling at the Freie Universität Berlin, and Judo to children at the Nelson Mandela School and Berlin British School.
GF Team Berlin is a GF Team affiliate based in Berlin-Kreuzberg, offering high quality training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and NoGi Grappling at the Urban Gladiators Gym.
Having opened its doors in October 2014, GF Team Berlin is one of the youngest teams in Berlin’s BJJ scene and is headed by GF Team Europe Headcoach Gabriel Rainho, who is not only a BJJ black belt but also a black belt in Judo.
Gabriel offers high quality training in a friendly, welcoming environment. He regularly invites high calibre BJJ athletes from GF Team, giving his students the opportunity to train with some of the biggest names in BJJ. Master Julio Cesar hosted a seminar at GF Team Berlin in November 2014.
Apart from classes in BJJ and NoGi Grappling, Gabriel also offers self defence courses, using highly effective and easy to learn techniques from Judo and BJJ. He also organizes regular Open Mats and themed Seminars.
Classes at GF Team Berlin are open to all levels and age group!! Gabriel also offers private classes to those interested.
Nowadays , GF Team is one of the top Brazilian Jiu Jitsu teams in the world.
It all began at the Universidade Gama Filho, a university in Rio de Janeiro where in 1996, a BJJ academy was opened at the Taquara Campus in the Northern area of Rio de Janeiro. Pedro Gama Filho, the director of the university, taught BJJ at the University for a short while before handing the job in the capable hands of Master Júlio César, Marcus Bello and Alexandre Baraúna. Gama Filho stayed behind the team giving financial support.
The team’s growth was immense from the get-go and soon the camp had to be shifted to a better facility at Campus Piedade, another UGF address. Other branches of the team also started opening in places like Bairro Vila da Penha and Aracaju.
With the passing of Pedro Gama Filho in 2004, the team lost the sponsorship of the University and had to move their Head Quarters from the Campus Piedade to Méier, though keeping the name (UGF). However with the rise of MMA, UGF had to change their name since the University did not want to be in any way connected with the sport of MMA, thus giving birth to the name Grappling Fight Team (GF Team) in 2007.
Under the leadership of Master Julio Cesar, GF Team has had great success in Brazil since the 1990’s. With the turn of the 2010’s decade, GFT was propelled to worldwide success through the opening of affiliates in the US and Australia, and a series of excellent competition results at international level. The continuous production of high level fighters such as Denilson Pimenta, Rodolfo Vieira, Ricardo Evangelista, Italo Lins, Vinicius Marinho, Huanderson Pavão, Gabriel Rainho and many others has established GF Team as one of the top BJJ teams in the world.
Since 2011, GF Team has opened affiliates across Europe under the leadership of Gabriel Rainho. With numerous affiliates across the world, GF Team has established itself in the competition circuits and in the BJJ circle as one of the most welcoming and friendly environments to learn and train BJJ.
