"That's when I realized, I didn't know how to fight." Professor Joey Alvarado has dedicated a lifetime to martial arts. He is a former MMA fighter and Cage of Fire lightweight champion. He holds a…
"It's the ultimate team sport and the ultimate individual sport." Coach Austen Moore leads the club wrestling program at Grand Canyon University, which competes in the NCWA. He is joined by team leads…
"I'm not teaching for a paycheck. I'm teaching because I love doing this." Professor Thomas Castro Chamorro is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who teaches the 11 a.m. all-levels class at Legacy…
"My job is to teach jiu-jitsu, not to train jiu-jitsu... But my dream is to train jiu-jitsu." Beatrice Jin is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who teaches, competes, and helps run Kogaion Academy in…
"I don't know if I found jiu jitsu so much as it found me." Mike "Murdah" Carrasco is a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt, DJ, bboy, and artist who trains at Legacy Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Burbank and…
What does it mean to build a life around jiu-jitsu when the rest of your life refuses to stay the same? Professor Ariane Dang and Stephen Harty join The Grappling Monthly Podcast at Mizu Studio in…
Nicholas Guillemette teaches full time at Team Evolution HQ in Gatineau, Quebec which is located in Canada's National Capital Region. He started at five, quit completely from sixteen to nineteen, and…
Professor King Osimco started jiu-jitsu in Iloilo, in the Panay region of the Philippines, at a point when there was no affiliated gym in his hometown and instruction came from downloaded videos. He…
"Your body type doesn't matter." Professor Rodrigo Alves is the head instructor and co-owner of Brave Martial Arts Institute in Ottawa, an Alliance affiliate. He started Brazilian jiu jitsu in…
Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Pierre-Olivier Leclerc on 12 years at Tristar in Montreal, nogi competition, teaching, and training at 33 with 75 in mind. He walked into Tristar Gym as a white belt at…
