By Jiu Jitsu on February 01st, 2010

Gustavo “Guto” Campos (Atos/Getho)

Gustavo Campos BJJ

Gustavo Campos is one of the founders of the Atos Jiu Jitsu Academy, he is also a World class BJJ black belt with titles at the Europeans and World Championships.

Guto Campos in Detail

Nickname: “Guto” is short for Gustavo.

Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Reyson Gracie > Osvaldo Alves > Sérgio Penha > Walter Matos > Gustavo Campos

Main Achievements (BJJ/MMA/Grappling):

World Cup Champion(2005);
Pan-American Champion (2008);
South American Champion (2008);
2x European Champion (2010 weight and absolute);
2x Abu Dhabi PRO Challenge Champion (2008, 2009)

Favorite Technique: Toe Hold

Weight Division: Middleweight

Most Famous Fights were against Andre Galvao, as they met on many occasions throughout their BJJ careers, and the final of the absolute division in the European BJJ Championship against Rodrigo Cavaca.

Guto’s Affiliation: Atos/Getho.

Gustavo Campos Jiu Jitsu Biography

Gustavo Campos was born in Porto Alegre Brazil, 1980. His first contact with BJJ, odly enough, was due to UFC as he saw Royce Gracie’s VHS tape at a friend’s house and decided to adhere to the sport. He was 18 then and still living with his parents, as his father strongly dissaproved to his training in BJJ (mainly because he had done poorly at school), Gustavo had to find a part time job to pay for his tuition.

He started off at Carlos Aveline’s academy, Carlos Aveline (a Ze Mario Sperry and Walter Matos black belt). Guto loved the sport so much, he couldn’t stop training, going from 3 classes a week straight to 2 classes a day (every day) in the first few months. He trained with Aveline during the day, and at night he went to another academy run by his childhood friend Mario Reis, who was from another team.

His training was paying up as he won 3 World Cups on a row (2001, 2002, 2003) as he progressed belts (Blue, Purple and Brown) and finnaly in 2004 he got his Black Belt off the hands of Walter Matos. Gustavo always wanted to train with one of his childhood heroes (Rickson and Royce Gracie) and he finnaly got his wish. In 2007 he travelled to California to train at Rickson Gracie’s Academy, he loved the experience and became good friends with Kron Gracie (Rickson’s son).

He came back to Brazil to start his own gym. He didn’t have enough money to rent a space at the time, so his mom created the space and gave him full usage of her living room. Padded with mats, Mrs Campos’s living room became the very first Getho Jiu Jitsu headquarters, were Guto tried to implement Rickson’s teaching methods. The place soon became too small, and he moved to a larger space soon after.

In late 2008 Guto together with his friend Ramon Lemos and Andre Galvao, decided to form a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu super team. With Guto at the helm, and fighters like Andre Galvao, the Mendes brothers, Bruno Frazatto and plenty others. The headquarters is in Rio Claro and although all the fighters teach and give seminars all over the world, they get together before every major competition to sharppen up their skills.

In January 2010 Gustavo Campos was crowned middleweight and absolute division champion in the BJJ European Championships.

Gustavo Campos vs Cavaca