Leandro Escobar
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Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
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About Us
Leandro Escobar was born on the 30th of April, 1981 in the burg of Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil. He started training martial arts very early in life, at the age of 5 through Karate (where he reached the brown belt), he also added Capoeira and Luta Livre (a Brazilian style of submission wrestling) to his list of activities.
Jiu-Jitsu came in 1996, he started training because a few of his friends from school already trained at Marcio Stambowsky (also known as Macarrão) academy. It was Master Macarrão who initiated ‘Tatu’ in Jiu-Jitsu and who awarded him his blue belt. Shortly after which he switched camps and started training with André Almeida ‘Dedeco’, it was training at Brazilian Top Team that Leandro Escobar got his purple, brown and black belts (all from Dedeco), the latest being awarded on the 27th of November, 2002.
With the departure of Dedeco to the United States in the mid-2000s, Tatu found himself teaching, pairing up with his teammate Rafael ‘Formiga’. In January 2008, Formiga and Tatu would join forces with Augusto Mendes (Tanquinho) and Bruno Mendes (Tank) as well as Master Alvaro Mansor to form a bigger team to which they called Soul Fighters. The team brought a fresh spirit to the sport and quickly started producing hot prospects in Brazil such as Diogo ‘Moreno’ and João Gabriel Rocha.
Although fruitful, the Soul Fighters Squad split in 2020, leading to the development of Double Five, with Leandro Escobar and Rafael Formiga at the helm, alongside other big names of the sport such as João Rocha.
