Category: Interviews
Tomoyuki ‘Passport’ Hashimoto was born on the 20th of April, 1993 in Tokushima, Japan. He would earn his black belt in 2015 promoted by the legendary Yuki Nakai after his gold medal run at the Mundials at Brown Belt that …
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Category: Interviews
【日本語のインタビューは英語の下にあります】 Reon Niwa (born May, 2000) and Hiryu Niwa (born July, 2001) are two young Japanese Brown Belt competitors from Axis Jiu Jitsu Yokohama. With notable international titles in competition at purple belt, they received their Brown Belts from Axis …
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Category: Interviews
Robert Degle is a student of the famed John Danaher, currently based out of the infamous `Blue Basement` in New York City. A former philosophy major, he is now both an active competitor and coach and has recently completed a …
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On June 19th, 2019, I received an email from an emergency room doctor who has just begun Jiu Jitsu. He found my blog about strokes in relation to Jiu Jitsu and had some great questions that I wanted to address …
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Category: Competitions, Interviews
Back in January 2017, I was contacted randomly by one Anthony Luu, the front manager and organizer of the inaugural Saigon Open, asking if I would like to attend. Interest piqued I went about recruiting a handful of team mates …
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Category: Interviews
As an avid competitor Mike has traveled extensively around the world and has competed in competitions in both Gi and No gi with great success. Formerly based in the UK, Mike traveled to South East Asia and having spent time …
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Category: Interviews
Roll Chasers is an international jiu-jitsu camp and events company. Inspired by the passion and culture of jiu-jitsu, they launched the Pacific Island Jiu-Jitsu Camp 2019 that is open to all academies and belt levels worldwide. This jiu-jitsu camp will …
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Category: Interviews, Lifestyle, Travel
Margot Ciccarelli-Tang, is the founder of Nømadic iD & a Purple Belt World Champion (IBJJF 2018) She has most recently won the IBJJF Asian Open 2018 and has no long term fixed abode. She is of Chinese-Italian descent, 25 years …
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Category: Interviews
Yuta Shimada is Japanese home-grown Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, a rank earned from the legendary Naoya Uematsu of Nexusense academy. Shimada is also one of the top competitors in the IBJJF international circuit and has won the Asian Open …
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Category: Interviews
Dan Reid is from a small town 30 miles from Edinburgh called Dunfermline. His interest in BJJ & MMA began around 2005, when he watched the first ultimate fighter and decided he would give it a try. This didn’t actually …
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