チェックマット･ジャパンは
現在のチェックマットジャパンの前身となるTENSAI柔術アカデミーは、遡ること数年前の2009年2月10日に設立されました。その当時より今日に至るまで、チームは、日本ブラジリアン柔術連盟(JBJJF/IBJJF) ならび、全日本柔術連盟(JJFJ) の両連盟に求められる品質基準に基いて正式に団体･加盟登録しています。2011年吉日、本国ブラジルのチーム･チェックマットとタッグを組み連携。志（こころざし）をともに歩むことを、ここに決意いたします。チーム名も、CHECKMAT JAPANとして、新しく生まれ変わりました。私どもの目指すゴールは、国内外において、さらなるチームの強化と、選手の育成に、ひたむきに努力しつづけることにあります。
一方、チェックマット･チームは、2008年7月21日結成。愛称：“レオジーニョ” でおなじみの、レオナルド･ヴィエラ （黒帯･四段）が代表として率いるブラジルの強豪チーム。そのチーム名は、チェスのゲームボード上で、最終的に勝者となるプレーヤー側が、『最後の一手』 を出すときの、あの決め台詞「チェックメイト！」に由来しています。そもそも、柔術の試合は、チェスのゲーム展開によく似ていると云われているのは、もうご存知のとおりですよね。最後の最後まで、試合展開がどうなるのかわかりません。それらをもじったのが、この『チェックマット』 。ここでは、チェスボードに代わり、柔術には欠かせない「マット」、すなわち畳のことを指して言っています。
ABOUT CHECKMAT JAPAN
Our academy was founded by Marcio Reis and Edison Kagohara on February of 2009, with the first name being Tensai Jiu-Jitsu Academy. After many disagreements between the founders, Edison decide to leave the team.
Marcio Reis remains with the team and in order to better support his students, decides to join forces with Checkmat, the team were his first teacher belonged at the time. The Checkmat Japan team was born from this alliance.
HOW CHECKMAT STARTED - The team was founded in 2008, by two brothers, Leonardo Vieira and Ricardo Vieira. The Vieira brothers had belonged to an elite generation of BJJ competitors, raised under the Alliance team in the late 1990’s. After a series of quarrels, between the competition team members and the main Alliance coach (Fabio Gurgel), some of the fighters who belonged to this famous academy were expelled from the group in 2002, which propelled the group to form their own academy (Brasa). A team that had Ricardo Vieira and Leonardo Vieira on board. The Brasa team command was divided amongst few of these fighters, and according to the Vieira brothers lacked serious leadership and direction, for those reasons they decided to break their bond with "Brasa" and launched the team CHECKMAT.
SOBRE A CHECKMAT JAPAN
Nossa academia foi criada com uma parceria entre Marcio Reis e Edison Kagohara em 02 de Fevereiro de 2009. O primeiro nome da equipe foi Tensai Jiu-Jitsu Academy, após divergencias entre os fundadores, Edison decidiu deixar o time.
Marcio Reis permanece com a equipe e a fim de oferecer melhor apoio aos alunos, decidiu unir forças com a equipe Checkmat, academia a qual seu primeiro professor pertencia na época. A academia Checkmat Japan nasceu desta aliança.
O INICIO DA CHECKMAT - A equipe foi fundada por dois irmãos, Leonardo Vieira e Ricardo Vieira. Ambos pertencentes a uma geração de ouro da equipe Alliance no final de 1990. Após uma série de discussões entre a equipe e o principal professor da Alliance (Fabio Gurgel), muitos dos lutadores que pertenciam a esta formação foram expulsos do grupo (2002), o que impulsionou esse bando de “Samurais Ronin” a formar a sua própria academia, a que chamaram “Brasa Clube de Jiu Jitsu”, ou simplesmente Brasa. A Brasa, que tinha Ricardo e “Leozinho” a bordo, acabou por se desmembrar um pouco após alguns anos, sendo que os irmãos Vieira acabaram saindo do grupo de trabalho, alegando falta de liderança na direção. Por esse motivos eles lançaram o seu próprio projeto, a equipe Checkmat, que foi fundada em 2008.
