Professor Sauer works extensively with military groups in Virginia, including the Marines and various groups from the Navy SEAL teams (including the snipers).

(of any martial discipline) and has presented hundreds of public seminars around the nation. He is one of the most highly sought after instructors in the U.S. He also has several affiliated schools across the country, and he visits them on a regular basis to give intensive instruction to the students and instructors. In October of 1996, he became an official representative Black Belt Instructor under the Rickson Gracie American Jiu-Jitsu Association.Ĭurrently, Professor Sauer resides in Virginia where he instructs at One Spirit Martial Arts and at Jeff Gordon's Self Defense Academy. After moving to Utah in December of 1990, he taught as one of only two non-Gracie black belts under the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy (run by Rorion and Royce Gracie). Long recognized for the superior technical efficiency of his jiu-jitsu, he then began his career as an instructor in 1986 when asked to teach with an organization known in Brazil as Corpo/Quatro (Body of Four) where he taught and continued his training under renowned jiu-jitsu instructors Alvaro Barreto (who is a red belt master under Helio Gracie). * 2010 - 8th Degree Red and Black Belt Professor Sauer earned his Black Belt from Helio and Rickson in 1985. This is a special certificate given in recognition of superior technical mastery of the art of jiu-jitsu, given to only a handful of students by Helio Gracie.* 1990 - Certified Black Belt Instructor by Robson Gracie and the Federacao de Jiu-Jitsu* Black Belt Judo* 1993 - 3rd Degree Black Belt from Rorion Gracie* 1996 - Level 6 Instructor Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy (Rorion and Royce Gracie)* 2000 - 5th Degree Black Belt under the Federacao de Jiu-Jitsu* 2003 - 6th Degree Black Belt 1985 - Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from Helio and Rickson Gracie* 1986 - Tecnico de Jiu-Jitsu.

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