The Meia Guarda Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a Royce Gracie Academy, there is a lineage that comes along with that.  Royce was the one who fought in the first UFC, he is the one who single handedly proved to people that size and strength and athleticism makes no difference at all.  When he stopped fighting there for a while and semi-retired he had students he was teaching that eventually became black belts, and around the year 2000 he decided to formalize his network, that meant that instead of just having random students he decided to create the Royce Gracie Jui-jitsu network, which is an organization of his black belts.  I was promoted by Royce to black belt in 2013.  We as an academy are under that network.  Royce is not an owner of our school, he doesn’t dictate what we do and don’t do, he doesn’t have any influence how we do business, but he does influence how and what and why we teach what we do, we make sure we teach how he learned from his father.