Tainan Dalpra
AOJ superstar Tainan Dalpra was born on 12/06/2000 in Florianopolis, Brazil. At the tender age of 5 years old, his father started teaching him the science of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He started competing at an early age. While competing at the IBJJF Kids Pans, Tainan had the chance to meet BJJ Icons Rafael and Guilherme Mendes. Tainan already had aspirations of training to become a world champion. After sharing his goals with the Mendes brothers, he joined the AOJ youth scholarship program and moved to Costa Mesa, California to pursue his dreams of ranking with the elite of the grappling world. As a juvenile, Dalpra won every competition that he entered in; this includes the Pans of Jiu-Jitsu and the Jiu-Jitsu World championships. In another amazing feat in 2018, Dalpra won double gold at every competition he entered within the adult division. Additionally, he had the honor of being promoted to purple belt on the podium of the world championship of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. After many years of stringent training and competition, on 10/11/2020 Dalpra was promoted to black belt on the podium of the Pan championship by his coach & mentor Guilherme Mendes. In 2021, Dalpra won the World Championship, the Pan Championship, the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Miami followed by the 2022 European Championship and the 2022 Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship for the second time; a tournament he has now won at blue, purple, brown and black belt. Currently, Dalpra is the number one pound-for-pound black belt in the world for the middleweight division.
Main Achievements (Black Belt)
•IBJJF World Champion (2022)
•IBJJF World Champion (2021)
•IBJJF Pan Champion (2022)
•IBJJF Pan Champion (2021)
•IBJJF European Open Champion (2022)
•AJP Grand Slam Miami winner (2021)
Main Achievements (Colored Belts)
•IBJJF World Champion (2018 blue)
•2nd Place IBJJF World Championship (2019 purple)
•IBJJF Pan Champion (2018[a] blue, 2019 purple)
•IBJJF European Champion (2019 purple, 2020 brown)
•Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Miami winner (2020 brown)
•Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Abu Dhabi winner (2018 purple)
•Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Los Angeles winner (2018 purple)
•Abu Dhabi World Pro Champion (2019 purple
•IBJJF Juvenile World Champion (2016 / 2017
•IBJJF Juvenile World Champion No Gi (2016
•IBJJF Juvenile Pan Champion (2016 / 2017 2nd Place
•IBJJF Juvenile World Championship (2017)
Comments (4)
This seminar was amazing. The energy was incredibly positive. The lesson plan was exceptionally well done. The repeated explanation of techniques was very helpful. Above all else, it was an amazing privilege to get to be in The Lab once again. Thank you Cutting Edge Academy!
Tremendous seminar and always a very rare and memorable experience being in a room with an athlete of the highest caliber, who will likely go down in history as being in conversation for one of the greatest. It was evident how much knowledge and information he had and how generous of a teacher he is. It is especially noteable that he was very comfortable going from very general concepts and tying them down to specific technique points. If there was one negative, i would say that perhaps there was too much information that a student beginner may have a hard time focusing and remembering the specifics of what was most important. Overall an excellent experience!
The seminar was awesome very good techniques and great concepts on passing.Tainan is not only a great Champion but a great teacher and I wish him nothing but the best in his career.
What a fantastic seminar by Tainan Delpra and his wife Sophia. Tainan is a 2X World Champion (2022 Pan American Champion and 2022 European Champion). As of April 2022 @flograppling has ranked him the worlds’ best P4P best Gi-Jiu-Jitsu Blackbelt. Excellent instructor, articulate, cerebral and wise beyond his years. Thank you @zecobra_bjj and @cuttingedge_bjj / @choke_lab for hosting yet another top shelf seminar.