I started in 2001 in Paris, France. The martials school where I was had a deal with Alliance jiu jitsu in Brazil, to import a Brazilian BB teacher every year. So Orlandivo Goncalves was my first teacher. Then Charlao Moura replaced him. Then Came the famous Paulo Sergio, third degree black belt from J. Cavalcanti.
I went to live in Serbia, in 2004 and thank god they had a good BJJ school and a Serbian Black belt teacher student of Fernando Pinduka. I'm currently a three strip blue.