The Luiz França lineage

The line

Luiz França learned from Mitsuyo Maeda alongside Carlos Gracie and passed the art to Oswaldo Fadda, seeding the sport's most important non-Gracie lineage.

Lineage follows black-belt promotions: links are checked against public sources where possible and shown as best-effort estimates everywhere else. Athletes train under many coaches — treat this as a map for exploring, not a certificate.