Draft:Julien Samuel Roux

Julien Samuel Roux (born 1 September 1997) is a French Grappling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competitor and coach based in Anglet, Southwest France. A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brown belt, Roux trains under Clark Gracie (a grandson of Carlos Gracie Sr, one of the co-founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). Roux is a member of, and a coach for, the French National Grappling team.

Recent competition history

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Roux was a Gold Medalist at the 2023 IBJJF Paris International Open.[citation needed]

Biography

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Roux started his martial arts training in 2015 under the instruction of Guillaume Duranton, a disciple of Rickson Gracie. In 2017 Roux moved to San Diego, California to study Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Clark Gracie.

Since 2019, Roux is the co-director of Gracie Allegiance Anglet, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts academy in Anglet, Southwest France.[1] The club was originally known as BOA ONDA, founded in Bayonne, Southwest France in 2014 by Guillaume Duranton. Today the Gracie Allegiance Anglet academy has over 150 members, many of whom compete on a national and international level.

Instructor lineage

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Kano JigoroTomita TsunejiroMitsuyo "Count Koma" MaedaCarlos Gracie Sr. → Carley GracieClark Gracie → Julien Roux

References

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  1. ^ "MMA, Jujitsu brésilien et lancer de haches… Le Sport Ball Anglet propose des disciplines encore méconnues" [MMA, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Axe Throwing... Sport Ball Anglet proposes these new activities]. sudouest.fr (in French). 20 July 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2024.