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In an inspiring interview with graciebarra.com,  one of living legends of the sport, Romulo Barral talked about his training leading up to ADCC:

GB.com: How’s the latest ADCC. Tell us your preparations

Prof. Romulo: The preparation was really good I trained really hard and dedicate 4 months to get ready for ADCC everything I was doing was to make me better to win like train rest train rest eat and have positive things in my mind to get the gold , I focus way more on the wresting train what make a huge difference in my game to win the ADCC I train at Calvary Chapel church boyz wrestling with coach Jacob who pushed me to another level , also I trained at my school with my students and all my GB team mates . , I went to compete at ADCC very motivated and I had no Doubts that I was going to get the gold .
GB.com: How’s your progress. Black belts typically become better everyday. Can you tell us how you manage to achiee that.

Prof. Romulo: I have an open mind to learn and trying to always improve if u are a a black belt and u not trying to improve and follow the evolution of the sport u will be left behind . Iam always trying to learn with all my students white to black belt they always have some thing to teach me

GB.com: Tell us about your competition life. Has it been a while?

Prof. Romulo: I am been competing in an long time , I love my life I couldn’t ask for nothing better , I do what I love and I do my best to be good at it . I’m accomplished most of my goals as a competitor but I’m still wanna more .

GB.com: Let’s talk about your students. So how are they?

Prof. Romulo: My students are doing great I have a competition team and I have my students who like to do bjj as a hobby self defense sport exercise and I’m always proud of all than they are all living the bjj life style I’m happy to help than improve they life true brazilian jii jitsu.

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