Sweep The World by Leonardo Saggioro

• "The Double Gold Machine" Leonardo "Cascao" Saggioro / almost always wins double gold
• Cascao is a featherweight and one of Bernardo Faria's long time training partners
• His game is safe, effective and easy to implement
• He is a lot like Bernardo Faria, he has a few sweeps that his opponents know are coming and he still gets them
• Cascao has made the podium a multitude of times at the adult black belt worlds 

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What Will You Learn?

"The Double Gold Machine" Leonardo "Cascao" Saggioro / almost always wins double gold by winning the Featherweight Black Belt Title & The Open Class Titles in the tournaments he enters.

Do you ever compete against bigger guys and feel smashed? Like they are just too heavy to move? Well Cascao used to feel this way - but then he figured out a little system, a trick if you will...he is able to utilize all 155 lbs of his body, use his leverage system and all of a sudden he's able to have 10x his power and he's able to sweep 1,500 lb men. Ok well there are no 1,500 lb men but we are sure if there was 1,500 lbs men, Cascao could sweep them - we think...

What we are sure of is that Cascao can sweep huge black belts easily. He has an incredibly decorated competition resume, check it out, from BJJ Heroes:


Main Achievements (* Absolute ** Weight and absolute )



-IBJJF World Champion (2008 purple)

-CBJJ Brasileiro Champion (2013/2012 black)

-UAEJJF Abu Dhabi Pro Champion (2014 black)

-IBJJF Toronto Open Champion (2016/2015** black)

-IBJJF Montreal Open Champion (2015** black)

-IBJJF World Championship Runner-up (2017 black, 2010 brown)

-CBJJ Brasileiro Championship Runner-up (2014/2011 black)

-CBJJ South American Championship Runner-up (2011 black)

-IBJJF World Championship 3rd Place (2012 black)

-IBJJF Pans Championship 3rd Place (2015 black)

-FIVE Grappling LW GP 3rd Place (2017)

Cascao's Unstoppable Sweep Is Kind Of Like Bernardo Faria's sweep - But adapted For Small Guys. Once Cascao gets under you - it's all done - you're going to the bottom. He learned at The same half guard factory as Bernardo Faria, becoming a black belt in Juiz de Fora Brazil under Professor Ricardo Marques. He had to make some adjustments though.


While Bernardo is big and strong as a super heavyweight, Cascao is only a featherweight who can't rely on size and strength. Once he uses his special set of moves to load an opponent - no matter how big - the opponent flies and Cascao gets 2 points for the sweep. There are a few hacks no one else in the world has figured.

One of The Best Fighters At Any Weight In The World

‘Im super happy to talk about my good friend Leonardo "Cascao" Saggioro. I think the 2 people I have trained the most in my entire life are him and Matheus Diniz from MG Team. Those 2 are probably the ones that helped me the most to make me become the fighter that I'am. I remember back in my hometown, me and Cascao started Jiu-Jitsu almost in the same time, and I was 2 years older than him, so I always had him like my "kid". Cascao, developed a game very similar to my one, for everyone who is lighter weight and ask me if my game plan works for lighter guys, I always tell them to look up to Cascao. He has one of the best half-guards I have ever seem, and when he gets on top, its all about pressure passing. Even though he is feather weight, he knows how to apply the "pressure passing" more than any lighter weight.


His accomplishments doesnt lie, he won the World Pro in Abu Dhabi (Adult, black belt), he won the brazilian nationals 2x (Adult black belt), and this year he got second in the worlds (adult black belt) being stopped only by the great Cobrinha, by 1 advantage. If you are lighter weight, and is looking to improve your half-guard and pressure passing, he is your guy. Specially if you have hard time to play this game against people stronger than you. I have seem him winning a bunch of open classes, even being feather weight, its super impressive And also if you are heavy weight, and is looking to find new ways to use the pressure, he is also your guy. Many times I ask him questions about techniques that he does, because as I said, we have the same type of game."

- Bernardo Faria 5x World Champ

So, What's On The Series?

Part 1
Single leg half guard lapel sweep
Single leg half guard lapel sweep to back take
Countering the whizzer
5 hole double leg
Butt kick entrance into single leg half guard
Pant grip double leg from single leg half
Pulling half guard from standing
Breaking the posture to take the back
Escaping the underhook to pant grip sweep

Part 2
Reverse half guard sweep to leg drag
Reverse half guard lapel tie up sweep
Knee cut defense with lapel tie up
Lapel sweep to ankle pick
Ankle pick to double leg
Lapel sweep to stand up single leg
Lapel sweep to stand up single leg #2