Career
After graduating college with a degree in International Business, Leopoldo started his own Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil called Gracie Morumbi. He has been the owner and primary instructor at the academy since it was established in 1999. Since then he has gone on to open three more academies in the United States.
One is in Ventura, California, and the others are in Thousand Oaks, California, and Camarillo, California.
Leopoldo currently has over twenty black belts that train under him. Brazilian National Champion (2001 – black belt)
2x World Silver Medallist (1998 – purple belt, 1999 – brown belt, 2008 – black belt)
6x Pan American Silver Medallist (1996 – purple belt, 2000 – brown belt absolute, 2001 black belt absolute, 2003, 2009 weight & absolute – master)
Brazilian National Silver Medallist (1997 – blue belt)
3x World Bronze Medallist (2001 – black belt, 2003, 2005)
2x Pan American Bronze Medallist (1998 – purple belt, 2001 black belt)
3x Brazilian National Bronze Medallist (1999 – brown belt, 2000 – black belt, 2005).