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Happy New Year! We welcome Renzo Gracie standout Gianni Grippo this week. We discuss how Gianni became a 5x Mundial and 7x Pan Champ in gi/nogi at the colored belts. We find out what it was like starting out at Renzo’s as 10yrs old boy and how Renzo's has evolved from being next to a methadone clinic to becoming a world class training center. Find out the role private lessons from Magno Gamma and John Danaher have on Gianni and how private lessons might help your game. We discuss the surprising personal influence the Mendes Bros and also Ryan Gracie have also had on Gianni. We also talk about how running the competition team at Renzo's sharpens Gianni's game, what it was like coming up with Tanner Rice and Sinistro and why we didn’t see Gianni at Lloyd Irvin Jr.'s Kumite.