GARCIA AMADORI

In 2002, as a competitive boxer, I won the Lombard Belt and a year later became licensed as an athletic trainer.

In 2006 I earned the qualification of federal boxing expert and the following year established MMA Atletica BOXE.

In 2008 I became the youngest trainer in Italy to qualify a student in the Italian championship and, in the same period, reached my greatest achievement as a boxing trainer: a gold medal at the prestigious National Cup in Austria. 

There is a date and place I shall never forget: 8 August 2014 at the Pala FDLKAM in Ostia (Rome). The day I coached Anita Torti, Italian female lightweight champion, to win her first Italian title. Under my guidance, she reached third place in the world professional boxing rankings.  

Through my Brazilian-born wife Antonella, who has played a fundamental role in my personal and professional life, and with whom I have had two children Mira and Leo, I began to travel often to Brazil and thus came to train in Brazilian jiu jitsu and vale tudo, better known as MMA. 

Since it was difficult to find masters in Italy to pursue my training, I began to study and develop in BJJ on my own. In 2012, I therefore decided to leave for Las Vegas to be tested by Master Sidney Silva, descendant of the school of Rickson Gracie, son of the great Helio Gracie, the father of BJJ. It was Master Sidney who awarded me a black belt a year after our meeting.

In 2014 I worked with the GSD Nonvedenti Milano nonprofit, for which I developed a specific program to enable the blind to to learn and practice Brazilian jiu jitsu along with normally sighted opponents. 

The following year, I created a new BJJ technique, the “vampire choke”, recognized by the Rickson Gracie staff as “unique and great”. I also had the honor of seeing it published in Graciemag, a world-recognized trade publication. 

Many of the techniques I have published on my social media channels have been shared with important international web portals such as Watchbjj e BJJ Wiki. 

One constant throughout my professional career has been continuous study applied to teaching, which found its broadest expression in the creation and development of the All Points method. This is a training method involving a global vision of the teaching and learning phases of combat-related disciplines, through which I strategically combine technical, athletic and mental preparation into a highly effective program. 

The All Points method has provided me a unique way to train and prepare professional athletes in mixed martial arts. My thorough background in a variety of disciplines has given me total autonomy in MMA teaching, unlike all the other schools that rely on a number on instructors to achieve a good teaching level. With the All Points method I have trained many athletes who had never practiced combat disciplines before (see “Camps&Corners”). One example I am particularly proud of is Stefano Paternò (1995), well-known Italian MMA professional. I began teaching him when he was 14, and he was the first young Italian athlete to debut as a professional at only 16 years of age! In 2018 we captured the international Cage Warrios title and the following year signed on Bellator, an American promoter among the world’s best. Today I train a growing team of professional athletes. In March 2022 we won the Slam FC title with Edoardo di Gregorio. Stefano Paternò recently won the Venator FC welterweight belt, the only Italian organization broadcast on UFC Fight Pass.