Danijel Brajčić

danijel brajčić

Founder of Gracie Barra in Serbia
Head instructor of the school
bjj black belt

Heritage:
Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie Sr. > Carlos Gracie Junior > Carlos Lemos Jr

Experience in skills:
BJJ, Judo

Certificates:
GB ICP 2016, GB ICP 2017, GB ICP 2018, GB ICP 2019, First Aid Course – Red Cross of Serbia

Coaching license of MMA Federation of Serbia:
0516/p/2019

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  • He began his career in martial arts in 1983. When he was 4 years old when he first stepped on the mat in judo gi. He spent the next 20 years practicing judo.
  • The first BJJ contact was in 2001. When he went sporadically to the training skill, he fell in love with the skill in 2003. when he participated and won a bronze medal in one of the first BJJ competitions held in Serbia (then FR Yugoslavia). He made his first real steps in serious dealing with this skill in 2009. And since then, BJJ has become his life.
  • He has trained with some of the biggest names in the Jiu-jitsu world such as Marcio Feitosa (multiple world champion), Braulio and Victor Estime (multiple world Gi and NoGI, IBJJF, UAEJJF and ADCC champions), Carlos Lemos Jr (five-time world champion), Andre Campos, Carlos Maya (multiple world and European champion), Rafaelo Freitas-Barrate (multiple world champion), Salvatore Pace, Vitor Penteado, Guillermo Anguita, Andre Nunes, AJ Agazarm (multiple world champion and MMA fighter), Christian Rodriguez (multiple world champion and MMA fighter), Charles Negromonte, Ze Radiola, Max Carvalho, Roberto Attale, Leonardo Neves and many others...
  • Aside from his family, BJJ is the only thing he does in life, so his skill lessons go far beyond the physical that the members themselves testify to. In addition to BJJ group trainings, he conducts daily individual and smaller group trainings for recreational and competitors.
  • He teaches 5-10 training sessions every day. Over 400 students passed through his school and with competitors he won over 1000 medals and many trophies. He is the organizer of the most numerous and largest children's BJJ competition called Future Champions (since 2020 merged with Belgrade Masters), the most numerous and largest competition for children and adults in the region called Belgrade Masters , as well as the COMPETITION OF AJP Serbia Nationals and Iternationals (under the UAEJJF Federation).
  • He organized numerous seminars and camps in the country and abroad with big names of sports, made free workshops and seminars of self-defense for children and youth, free self-defense seminars for women, promoted sports at various events and in various media, organized numerous actions of humanitarian character.
  • In addition to BJJ, he is an active fire arms shooter and occasional practical shooting competitor (IPSC), a longtime skier, mountainclimber and active in mountain biking and motorcycles.
  • Father of Helena, girl who has been training BJJ since she was 3 years old.

SUCCESSES AS COACH

  • As a coach with his competitors, he won over 1000 medals and many trophies.
  • As the biggest success, he singles out the 2021/22 season when he won the team's second place in Europe within the world's largest BJJ league. (AJP League within the UAEJJF Federation) That same season, they won six trophy-first place finishes in the same league. A lot of competitors finished the season ranked first or one of the top three places in the world! One of the competitors finished the season in the first place in the world in the competition of all competitors and competition categories with the best win-loss ratio (44 wins and only 3 losses). That season, in whatever competition we played as a team, we won trophies. At the end of the season, as many as eight competitors from the team competed in the World Championships in Abu Dhabi.

COMPETITIVE SUCCESSES

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1 place (CAT.) – CROATIAN OPEN 2016 – ZAGREB (HR)
2place (CAT.) – Abu Dhabi World Pro-LJUBLJANA (SLO) 2019
2place (CATEGORY) – BELGRADE MASTERS OPEN 2019
2place(ABSOLUTE) – CROATIAN OPEN 2016 – ZAGREB (HR)
2nd place –NIŠ OPEN 2016 – NIŠ
2place(ABSOLUTE) – NIŠ OPEN 2014 – NIŠ
2nd place (CAT.) – NIŠ OPEN 2014 – NIŠ
2place (CAT.) – HUNGARIAN BJJ OPEN 2014 – BUDAPEST (HU)
3rd place (CAT.) – CHAMPIONSHIP OF FR YUGOSLAVIA 2003 – BELGRADE
3 place(ABSOLUTE) – CROATIAN BJJ OPEN 2015 – ZAGREB (HR)
3place (CAT.) – CROATIAN BJJ OPEN 2015 – ZAGREB (HR)
3rd place –EAST EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 – ZAGREB (HR)
3rd place (CAT.) – SERBIAN JIU JITSU CUP 2014 – BELGRADE
3place (CAT.) - EAST EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 – ZAGREB (HR)
3rd place (CAT.) – CROATIAN OPEN 2014 – ZAGREB (HR)
3place –IBJJF ZADAR OPEN 2014 – ZADAR (HR)
2022 WORLD PRO JIU-JITSU CHAMPIONSHIP – ABU DHABI UAE – 9TH PLACE

CERTIFICATES:

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