Márcio Rodrigues is a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt under Irami Gomes Rocha, and the founder of Equipe Márcio Rodrigues from where he has developed several high-end athletes such as Lucas "Hulk" Barbosa, Ygor, Yago and Ana Rodrigues as well as Erberth Santos. A reformed convict, Master Rodrigues changed his life through jiu jitsu and used his knowledge to develop a social project focussed on jiu jitsu, with the purpose of taking kids away from the drugs and violence of some of Rio de Janeiro's troubled slums.