North Leeds Jitz

This week on the show we are joined by an Ocean rowing coach with too many accolades to mention including 3 Guinness world records - Duncan Roy We discuss some of his many expeditions and the mindset to overcome adversity on this episode that could have easily lasted many more hours!  Check out more about Duncan here: https://www.rowingroy.com/ Insta: @duncroy1 Our Links: https://graciebarrar...

This week on the show Prof. Mike and Coach T discuss the newest addition to the academy - The REORG Room. We also update everyone on things like the upcoming fireworks night, kids comp classes, Junior leadership programme, our anniversary celebration and much more! Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gr...

This week on the show we are joined by another of our fantastic members Steve Dawson. Steve has been a mental health nurse for over 20 years he has then gone on to open his own brewery, a bar in york, learn to make awesome pizza and now has taken up BJJ. Hear all about his great story in this episode! Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gra...

This week on the show we introduce our fantastic new Program Director Sarah Brown. As the program director, Sarah will be the first port of call for our existing and prospective members. While fairly new to BJJ Sarah is also passionate about climbing, CrossFit, travelling and nutritional therapy. Hear about it all and more including what it means for the academy on the show! Our Links: https://gra...

This week on the show we are joined by Ricky Lam who holds multiple black belts in various martial art and has recently taken up BJJ with his family here at GBRL. He is the director for Premier Martial Arts in the UK owning multiple schools himself and has had a fantastic journey through martial arts that he shares with us on the episode.  @pmanorthleeds @ricky_wk_lam Our Links: https://graci...

This week on the show we are privileged to be joined by Professor Jakub Zajkowski who is a Black Belt under Braulio Estima and an instructor at Gracie Barra Birmingham.  Jakub is a highly accomplished competitor having won big tournaments all around Europe. We talk a lot about competing, training, teaching, Gracie Barra and much more!! @jacob_jitsu Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk...

This week on the show we are joined by BJJ Black Belt and co-owner of Scramble Academy here in Leeds - Liam Cann Liam shares with us his journey into starting BJJ, Scramble academy, his philosophy's on training and getting better as a student.  Even though we are separated by affiliation and a preference between training in the gi or without it was fantastic to see the crossover and shared pa...

This week on the show we are joined by Professor Craig Tetley who is the owner and head instructor at Gracie Barra Bradford and a black belt under Prof Braulio Estima.  Prof Craig shares some great stories of starting out in the early days of BJJ in the UK and then making the move down to GB Birmingham in the pursuit of building his life around the sport. Note: The first 30mins of audio got c...

This week on the show we are joined by Nick Butterfield who is a singer at Opera North and trains with us here at the academy along with his 2 young sons Wilfred and Sam. https://www.operanorth.co.uk/ @4hrdad @operanorth 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 Professor Steve Campbell who is a 4th degree Black Belt and Owner of Stealth BJJ. Prof. Steve spent 8 years training at the Gracie Barra headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There he earned his black belt in January 2007 under Carlos Gracie Jr having had a successful competition year at brown belt winning the Rio state championships, Copa Rolls Gracie and...

This week on the show we are joined by Professor Paul Bridges who holds a third-degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – and can lay claim to being one of the pioneers of the art in the United Kingdom. Having achieved a black belt in freestyle karate, he switched to BJJ after seeing Royce Gracie’s win UFC 1 and was awarded his black belt in 2009 by Marc Walder and Mauricio ‘Motta’ Gomes making P...

This week on the show we had the privilege of being joined my Prof. Marc Walder. Marc is one of if not the earliest pioneer of BJJ in the UK starting out in the early 1990's and the joint first British person to receive a black belt in the UK. We cover some awesome stories, including how Marc started in BJJ, his teaching philosophy, wisdom received from the his teacher Mauricio Gomes and a no time...

This week on the show we are joined by first-degree black belt under Victor Estima and owner of both Gracie Barra Middlesbrough and Hartlepool - Gaz Murphy  Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds Youtube - Gracie Barra Roundhay Leeds

A slightly different episode for you this week! We are joined by Prof. Sam Sheriff who pioneered BJJ within the Royal Marines and founded the Charity REORG who help service personnel through BJJ. Sam joined us to teach a seminar and this podcast is taken from the speech / Q&A he gave to our team. Follow REORG here: @reorgcharity Follow Sam here: @samreorgcharity Our Links: https://graciebarrar...

This week we are back in the academy after fighting off a bout of Covid and we introduce the newest member of the GBRL team - Andy Bone 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 owner and head instructor of Empire Jiu-Jitsu - Kurt Osiander Kurt is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, under  Ralph Gracie . Osiander is one of the cult heroes in BJJ’s community,  having been an active competitor since the mid 1990’s. Kurt Osiander’s straight forward personality and witty comments expressed in his video blog (K...

This week on the show we are delighted to be joined by European and World Champion - Vanessa English.  Vanessa was Victor Estimas first world champion student and earned her black belt in less than 6 years! 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 Mike and T answer some of your questions such as: How we started BJJ, What our biggest lightbulb moments have been in BJJ, the best ways to maximise off the mat learning, what we would do differently is we could start GBRL again and how Prof. Mike keeps his hair so nice and much more!! Our Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Facebook...

This week on the show we are joined by a former professional rugby league player and now a personal trainer and founder of @youfituk - Jonny Grayshon. Jonny is a member with us here at GBRL and despite being one of the biggest guys in the room is also one of the most technical with a hunger for learning and skill acquisition. Be sure to check out his 12-week transformation programme here: https://...

This week on the show we are privileged to be joined by a 5th-degree black belt under Master Carlos Gracie Jr, multiple-time world champion and European champion - Prof Carlos Lemos Jr. ( @carloslemosjrgb ) Prof Carlos started BJJ at the age of 14 having previously trained TKD and Judo. He quickly earned the nickname “Escorrega” meaning slippery on account of him being so hard to hold down. In 200...

This week on the North Leeds Jits Podcast we are joined by someone who has done it all in the world of grappling - Robert Drysdale! Born in the US from a Brazilian mother and American father, and having spent his life between these two countries, Robert Drysdale remains the only American competitor to have ever won both the IBJJF and ADCC World Championships, the two most prestigious tournaments i...

This week on the show we head over to the awesome @gracie_barra_harrogate to be joined by head Instructor and long time friend of Prof Mike - Prof Lewis Matthews! @lewis.matthews.gbh Lewis is a first-degree black belt under @victorestimagb and has been into martial arts for most of his life. We discuss, the changes to GBH, the professionalisation on BJJ, developing as a teacher, advice to white be...

This week on the North Leeds Jitz podcast we are joined by a former professional rugby player and GBRL member Oliver Goss!  Oli has an incredible story of perseverance, taking chances, being pro-active and believing in yourself! He is also a big part of our competition team and we squeeze in some BJJ talk too 🤙 Links: https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/ Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds Fa...

This week on the podcast we are joined by strength and conditioning coach Kane Daniels!  Kane has previously been the head strength and conditioning coach for multiple rugby league teams including, @giantsrl_official , @hullkingstonroversofficial and @rugbyleagueireland . Kane is now working very close to the academy in a private studio and we had him in to talk about his coaching philosophy!...

This week on the show we are joined by one of the best competitors in the UK @bradleyhillbjj Prof. Bradley started BJJ at age 12 after meeting @victorestimagb . Subsequently, he received his black belt at the age of 22. He is well known as 'The Omaplata Man' from his use of the submission in high level competition!  On the episode, we discuss his studying of wrestling, @victorestimagb stories...