His brother, Flavio Freitas, who was a blue belt at the time, trained at Carlos Gracie Jr Academy.

It was at Carlos Gracie Jr. Academy that Soca would begin learning under Jean Jacques Machado.

He has developed a BJJ program to cater to any type of student both competitors and non-competitors.

Soca has also teamed up with his oldest friends and teammates Roberto “Gordo”, Mauricio “Tinguinha”, Marcio “pe de Pano”, and Regis Calixto to create a non profit organization R1NG BJJ Team.

The goal of R1NG is to bring a bigger team to compete at the world-level jiu-jitsu championships.

[8][9] 2019, 2020,2021 On July 28, 2018 he announced via his Twitter account to have received his 6th degree blackbelt from Jean Jacques Machado.