Gregory R Lawson

Greg Lawson is a co-founder of Lincoln Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, which he opened with Conan Schafer and Jerad Downs on April 24, 2013. He was the school's head instructor and curriculum director until he began medical school at UNMC in August 2020, and he remains on the instructor roster as a 3rd degree black belt. Lawson started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in 2001 under the Ribeiro brothers while at Oberlin College, earning his blue and purple belts under Saulo Ribeiro and training in Rio de Janeiro in 2003. After Oberlin he trained at Easton BJJ under Amal Easton in Boulder, then met Mauricio "Tinguinha" Mariano while in graduate school at UC Riverside, training under him for almost six years before receiving his black belt in March 2011. He holds degrees in geology, and Schafer and Downs both received their black belts from him in 2021.