Alavanca was Grandmaster Helio Gracie's favorite word. Literally translated, it means "Leverage." The Grandmaster applied it masterfully on and off the mat. Invisible to the eye, imperative in combat and impossible to resist; it represents the most powerful principle of jiu-jitsu, and without it the art we all love would not exist.
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