North Leeds Jitz

This week on the show we are joined by another of our assistant kid's coaches James!  James has lost over 30kg since starting BJJ last year, earned himself a blue belt and has done fantastically at competition. Give James a follow here: @frosty_jff Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gracie Barra R...

This week on the show we are joined by Kevin Meredith who has taken on a leading role in the kid's classes here at GBRL.  Kevin is the founder of Fit To Thrive a company that helps people take a holistic approach to health improvement.  Follow Kevin here: k.j.meredith Follow Fit To Thrive here: fit.to.thrive Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_lee...

After a whole year of in-person training, we recently sent out a form to our members to gather their anonymous feedback, this week on the show we reflect and answer some of the questions and comments. Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds

This week on the show we are joined by the newest blue belt in the academy and one of our kids coaches Lauren Uttley. On this episode Lauren speaks openly about a sexual abuse incident that happened when she was 20 years old, how it has impacted her since and how she now works to combat stereotypes through being a coach here at GBRL. Lauren runs an amazing swimwear company and has been featured in...

This week on the show we are joined by ADCC East Coast Trials winner Professor Giancarlo Bodoni.  Giancarlo is a black belt under Lucas Lepri, former head instructor at Bernardo Faria and commonly seen uke for John Danaher who he is now a student under at New Wave Jiu Jitsu in Austin Texas. Follow him Here: @giancarlobodoni Check out his Youtube Channel: Giancarlo Bodoni Take a look at his in...

This week on the show we are joined by the legendary Magid Hage & AJ Agazarm the day after Magid competed at Polaris!  Magid delivered an excellent seminar on the baseball bat strangle at the academy, later we had a bonfire and recorded this podcast. Follow Magid here: @gorilla_hands Follow AJ here: @thefloridaboy Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundha...

This week on the show we are joined by Professor Adam Marshall who started BJJ in 2000, and has been a regular training partner for Professors Mike, Tom, Lewis and Khalil who have all also been on the podcast! Follow Adam here: @marshalls_art_pics  Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gracie Barra R...

This week on the show we are joined by Professor Hillary Williams who is an accomplished competitor and also a Neuroscientist. We discuss coming up in a school as the only woman, travelling around the US and Brazil for competition and training, competing while studying full time and much more. Follow Hilliary: @hillarybjj Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay...

This week on the show we are joined by is a Polish-Australian Black Belt - Livia Giles Livia has been in sport all her life starting out competing at a high level in gymnastics, then cycling, before finding Jiu Jitsu. Under the tutelage of Lachlan Giles, she has become a 3x World Champion and an ADCC Trials silver medalist along with a long list of other achievements.  Livia is also an instru...

This week on the show we are joined by 7x world champion Kendall Reusing & Jeremy Pare who is a 20-year-old Canadian Purple belt who has been training since he was 5 years old! Both of them put on an exceptional seminar for us here at GBRL before they went on to compete and win at Grapplefest.  Follow Kendall here: @kendallreusing Follow Jeremy here: @jeremyparebjj Our Links: https://grac...

This week on the show we are joined by Ricky Pachon who is a brown belt coach at Gracie Barra Bondi. Along with being a very accomplished competitor and GB Oceana ambassador himself, he heads up the phenomenal GB Bondi Kids Comp Team which we discuss in length in the show along with his aspirations on creating an official advanced kids curriculum for Gracie Barra. Follow Rick here: @rickypachonbjj...

This week on the show we are joined by BJJ Hero Roberto “Gordo” Correa, one of the most important figures in Jiu Jitsu’s panorama. Creator of the half guard, two time world champion, and four time pan American champion, Gordo has been teaching since the 90’s and received his black belt in 1993 by the hands of Carlos Gracie Junior. Today Roberto Gordo Correa is regarded as one of the best Jiu-Jitsu...

This week on the show we are joined by our culture and care champion - Sarah, known to everyone at the academy by her nickname 'Sopes'. Sopes was one of the earliest founding members of the academy along with the rest of her family. She has since competed and done incredibly well already earning her blue belt.  You can keep up with Sopes here: @sazzle891 Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay...

This week on the show we discuss how to stay motivated and disciplined with your training even when the going gets tough!   We also give advice on how to train in new study hall sessions, discuss the upcoming Kendall Reusing seminar in February and the other planned events for the year. Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie B...

This week on the show we throwback to May 2018 when Coach T interviewed Prof. Khalil for the first time.   Unfortunately, the team caught covid this week so it's not a recent episode but we'll be back to a regular routine next week! Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gracie Barra Roundhay Lee...

This week on the show we are again joined by Prof. Adisa to discuss Miyamoto Musashi's thoughts and concepts, seeing if we can relate what he wrote about 400 years ago can be applied to BJJ today.  Check Adisa out on Instagram: @bishopchronicles  The book we discuss: Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_lee...

This week on the show we catch up with Prof. Adisa Banjoko after he delivered an excellent seminar here at GBRL.  We discuss what he's been up to since we saw him last including getting his black belt. We also discuss his plans for 2022. Check Adisa out on Instagram: @bishopchronicles  Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Ba...

This week on the show we had the pleasure of being joined by Professor Stefan Zoll.  Prof. Stefan is a 2nd-degree black belt under Ricardo Liborio and owner / founder of BLKLAB Jiu Jitsu in Saudi Arabia. Stefan is a renaissance man having been a former professional footballer, a competitive chess player, an expert in languages and linguistics, music composer and of course a Brazillian Jiu Jit...

This week on the show we are joined by Professor Khalil Bostan who was recently promoted to back belt by Victor Estima. We discuss Khalil's BJJ journey reminiscing with Prof. Mike about their early days of training together. Check out Coach T's 2018 interview with Khalil here: T1EP5 Follow Khalil here: @khalillbostan Catch him for a class at @gracie_barra_harrogate Our Links: https://graciebarraro...

This week on the show we are joined by the owner and CEO of ONE Championship and Evolve MMA - Chatri Sityodtong Chatri has an amazing and inspirational story to tell growing up in Thailand training Muay Thai, going to Harvard University to study Business and living off $4 per day to eventually starting ONE championship which is now the 7th biggest sports property in the world. Learn more about Cha...

This week on the show Coach T is in Roger Gracie Academy HQ joined by Professor Oscar Gugala. Oscar is both an instructor and an accomplished competitor having just won double gold at the English Open.  We discuss Oscar's journey from growing up in Poland to living and teaching in London. Follow Oscar here: @oscargugalabjj Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_ro...

This week on the show Coach T is joined by Prof. Luciano who is a Black Belt under both Renzo & Roger Gracie.  Luciano is a very accomplished competitor being a World No-Gi Champion, European Champion, Pan Ams No-Gi Champion, WSOF veteran and 2018 Abu Dhabi world tour grand slam gold medalist. He is also a fantastic teacher which we discussed a lot in the episode.  Our Links: https:/...

This week on the show Coach T is joined by a black belt under the legendary Roger Gracie. - Richard Kerrigan Richard has had a very interesting competition career going from a long losing streak to being the IBJJF No. 1 Ranked Brown Belt at Master 2! Want to hear more from Richard?  Follow him on Instagram here: @obi_wan_bjj Check out Coach T and Richards first podcast from 2019 here: Tier-On...

This week on the show we are joined by a hero in the BJJ community and a competitor who dominated the European and world stage for many years including the Capital Challange tournament whilst secretly battling cancer and undergoing both Chemo and radiotherapy - Prof Lagarto! Learn more about Prof Lagarto here: https://www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-fighters/lucio-rodrigues-lagarto Catch him for a class at...

This week on the show we throwback to 16/02/2019 when Coach T interviewed the founders of Gracie Barra Harrogate - Lewis Matthews & Geoff Cumbus. Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds