Amanda Magda de Oliveira - 4 Times BJJ Black Belt World Champion

Amanda Magda is a Black Belt under Luis Marques. She represented Fratres Jiu-Jitsu Team on the international level. She appeared on the Jiu-jitsu horizon when she received four medals in 2022, especially in the IBJJF South American Championship.

Now she is hitting the IBJJF World ranking scale and became one of the top Jiu-Jitsu Black Belts in the heavyweight division. Amanda has placed her name on the list of rising stars in 2023 after winning the IBJJF European Open 2023 in the Heavyweight division followed by the 2022 Gold wins.  

Amanda Magda was a sports lover from her early childhood. She used to appear in various games at her school. She was in her school’s volleyball and handball teams. Amanda was also fond of swimming.  

Amanda joined the martial arts academy after a big gap in her school sports activities. She stepped into the martial arts academy and started practicing Muay Thai. In 2014, she decided to take a chance with Jiu-Jitsu and joined the grappling class. Amanda was in love with grappling after her first grappling class. But this grappling experience could not prove long-lasting.    

After some time, Amanda could not continue her Jiu-Jitsu training because of her pregnancy and childbirth. Due to her pregnancy, she took a short break from Jiu-Jitsu. Amanda resumed her BJJ training after the birth of her second child. 

After the birth of her second child, Amanda experienced anxiety and challenging mundane circumstances. She started medication suggested by a psychiatrist. Due to anxiety, she lost interest in her daily activities.

This overall situation led her to be overweight. She was very uncomfortable in that situation and wanted to get rid of this anxiety to address her increasing weight.          

Amanda joined combat sports again mainly to reduce her weight. She joined a combat sports club named MAVORS in Sao Paulo. She resumed martial arts with Muay Thai and Kickboxing.

After joining the combat sports club, Amanda felt better and addressed her anxiety. Combat sports not only helped her to control anxiety but also cast out her dependency on antidepressants.    

Amanda was enjoying striking when her coach gave her a Jiu-Jitsu Kimono and suggested her start grappling. He recognized the grappling potential in Amanda. He thought she would enjoy Jiu-Jitsu more than striking. On the recommendation of her coach, Amanda started taking  Jiu-Jitsu classes.

She enjoyed Jiu-Jitsu more than grappling and fell in love with it after her first class. Now, Amanda became very passionate about grappling. She started taking two sessions of Jiu-Jitsu per day. She also started to take some private classes to improve her Jiu-Jitsu skills.   

Amanda joined Team Demian Maia where she grew exponentially in BJJ and received her Blue Belt. She received her Belt from her grappling coach Rodrigo Pacheco who was a coach at Demian Maia.

Amanda was promoted to Purple Belt by her two coaches Robson Rezende and Talita Nogueira in 2018. She received her Purple Belt after winning IBJJF Masters World in 2018 as a Blue Belt. After her Purple Belt promotion, she won CBJJ Brazilian Nationals the same year. 

In February 2019, Amanda was introduced to Luis Marques, one of the top Black Belt of her region. Luis Marques helped Amanda in her Jiu-Jitsu growth and promoted her to Brown and later to Black Belt. She received her Black Belt on 11 December 2021 in a ceremony organized by Luis Marques. 

Amanad Magda is honored to achieve five Gold Medals in IBJJF Masters World Championships. She achieved Gold in the adult masters championship four times in all Belt Levels. Then she achieved her Gold Medal in the Master 2 Championship as a Black Belt.

She is also a Gold (in weight division) and Bronze winner (absolute weight division) in the Masters 1 Championship of CBJJ.

Amanda is also a two times Gold winner of the South American Championship. In 2021 she received Gold and Bronze medals in South American Championship in weight and absolute division respectively as a brown belt.

She came into the spotlight after her 2022 South American Championship as a Black Belt. After this championship, she was also included in IBJJF World Ranked Athletes.    

Amanda Magda is one of the top ten athletes according to IBJJF Ranking . She is third among adult Black Belt athletes with 667.5 points. In CBJJ adult Black Belts, she ranked in the second position with 576 points.

Amanda Magda faced Deise Cristina in the final of the 2022 Curitiba Spring Open. She started the match by a successful pulling guard around Deise’s groin. Deise tried to grip Amanda’s collar. Meanwhile, Amanda strangled her arm and applied Kimura. Amanda submitted Deise with Kimura in less than two minutes.   

Amanda Magda faced Andreia Cavalcante in the final of the 2022 Salvador Spring Open. At the start of the match, Andreia tried to apply a pulling guard but Amanda countered by placing her knee on her belly. This unsuccessful try of pulling guard resulted in Andreia on the floor with Amanada on her top.

Amanada completely controlled her with her side mount and scored 3 points. A few minutes later Amanda attacked with Guillotine. Andreia defended Amenda’s guillotine attack but she did not let Andreia escape from her grip. 

At the end of the match, Amanda pulled guard, controlled her completely, and then strangled her arm. Amnada submitted Andreia with an Armbar.   

Amanda Mgda faced Eduardo Gonzaga in the final of Vitoria Open 2022. Amanad gave an outstanding performance in this match. She did not provide any chance to Eduardo in the whole match. 

Amanda started the match with a pulling guard which ended up with Eduardo’s leg in Amanda’s grip. Then Amanda actively moved to take her back. Amanda pulled her down with full force and strangled her arm from her back.

At the end of the match, Amanda submitted Eduardo with an Armbar. This is one of the fabulous matches Amanda had as she submitted Eduardo within 1 minute.

Amanda Magda v Andreia Cavalcante / Salvador Spring Open 2022

Amanda Magda v Marilia Freire / Sul-Americano 2022

Amanda Magda v Deise Cristina / Curitiba Spring Open 2022

Amanda Magda v Eduarda Gonzaga / Vitória Open 2022 

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