This is a great video that explains the terms Creonte by Draculino.  Vinicius Magalhaes, commonly known by his nickname “Draculino”, is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu  instructor responsible for raising the games of grapplers such as Romulo Barral , Samuel Braga , Marcelo Azevedo, Brandon Mullins  among many others, making his BJJ program one of the most successful ones ever in the sport. The Draculino Jiu Jitsu program has strong roots in Belo Horizinte (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and in Houston (Texas, US)   http://www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-fighters/vinicius-draculino-magalhaes-wiki-bio For the first part of the blog. http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2013/12/the-biggest-mind-trick-of-bjj-creonte.html

Just another post on Facebook, someone is calling out Creonte again:  "Morte para os creontes" "Matamos os creonte" It is getting old and dumb. What is Creonte? If you search the word in the a Portuguese dictionary, you will not find it. Why? Because it is a word that was created on a character of a Brazilian TV show (also known as soap opera). Creonte apparently was the TV character of a shady person that made many deals and back stabbing etc. Needless to say it is a derogatory term used to describe someone that left a BJJ school for another: a traitor. Carlson Gracie Sn takes the credit for the Creonte name as he used it to describe some people that left his school. Unfortunately, the name sticked in the sport and is used all the time by anyone and for any reasons. In a budovideo interview, Draculino mentioned that Creonte term was used for people that train for free and then left. It is interesting to take in consideration that Carl...