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Helio Soneca: ‘Sheikh Tahnoon is One of the Most Technical BJJ Black Belts in The World’

Helio Soneca: ‘Sheikh Tahnoon is One of the Most Technical BJJ Black Belts in The World’

 

 

Fighting Lifestyle UAE  talked to old school veteran Master Helio Soneca, during his short trip to the UAE giving a seminar at Team Nogueira Dubai.

Helio Soneca has been responsible for various high level MMA champions, including but not limited to, Wanderlei Silva, Allan Belcher, Stephan Bonner, Anderson Silva and more.

In this interview he talks his years training with the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan who regularly trains with all the top Jiu-Jitsu champions. He has them flown in for private sessions in his dojo.

 

His Jiu-Jitsu is said to be of an elite level, especially since he’s been training for close to 20 years now.

Andre Galvao has also trained with the Sheikh and learned a few things from him:

“I would like to say thank you very much to Sheik Tahnoon for the great time and training sessions in Abu Dhabi. I really appreciate the opportunity once again and also for all you already done for our art. I will be using all the techniques I learned with you last week for sure it’s all in my notes book .”

Helio Soneca says of Tahnoon that he is one of most technical BJJ black belts in the world:

 

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A rare image of HH Sheikh Thanoon when he was a blue belt with Master Helio Soneca