Carlos Machado was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the eldest of the Machado brothers: Carlos, Roger, Rigan, Jean Jacques and John Machado.
The legendary Gracie family fighting tradition was engraved in the Machado Brothers from a very early age, and Carlos Machado was no different from the rest of the Gracie's (his cousins), with whom he grew up, trained with and learned from.
In 1988 Carlos’s brother Rigan Machado moved to the United States to start teaching BJJ with the Gracie's out of their now legendary "Gracie Garage". Two years later in 1990, Carlos and John Machado joined Rigan and also moved to Southern California. The original idea was to help Rorion Gracie and the Gracie family build and establish their academy (where Rorion and Rickson Gracie were the head instructors along with Royce Gracie).
After all 5 Machado brothers arrived in the USA they decided that it was best for them to part ways from the Gracie Jiu Jitsu banner to build their own legacy.
The Machado's moved from Torrance, Ca. to nearby Redondo Beach and were teaching privates out of their own Garage when a very special future student walked through their door, Hollywood and Martial Arts Legend, Mr. Chuck Norris.
In 1995 Carlos Machado had an amazing opportunity with Chuck Norris and decided to move to Dallas, Texas to start filming Walker - Texas Ranger. Chuck invited Carlos to relocate with him and Carlos decided that it was time to spread Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to Texas and surrounding middle America areas.
Carlos Machado appeared in dozens of episodes of the “Walker, Texas Ranger” series during that period, portraying several different characters and usually getting beat up by his very pupil.
Carlos Machado is a multi Hall of Fame Instructor of Jiu Jitsu and known in Texas and the Southwest region of the United States as the “Godfather of Jiu-Jitsu”. Before Carlos Machado relocated to the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas area, nobody was teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Today most of the BJJ lineage in Southwest area can today can be traced back to Carlos Machado.