Category: BJJ Athletes

Rida Haisam is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete who hails from Accra, Ghana but moved to Japan as a teen. Here, he started training BJJ aged 17 years old. He […]

Josh Cisneros is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete from Selma, California. He began training BJJ aged 12 years old and says “My father used to train under Royce Gracie when […]

Ana Yagües is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt who was born in Madrid, but grew up in Seville, Spain. Since then, she has relocated to Germany as she moved […]

Denny Prokopos is a BJJ athlete who was born in San Francisco, California and still resides there running his own gym SFBJJ. He was introduced to grappling at a very […]

Timur Ouzlaner is from Haifa, Israel and started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at age 14 years old. In his own words, he says “I was always interested in martial arts. […]

Alex Magala is originally from Orhei, Moldova but now lives in California, USA. He began training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu aged 25 back in 2015. As he puts it, his love […]

Enson Inoue is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA athlete from Honolulu, Hawaii. He began training BJJ in 1987 aged 20. Like many practitioners, he began learning BJJ for self-defense, […]

Ali Monfaradi is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete from Janusan, Bahrain and began training BJJ at the age of 12 years old. For Monfaradi it was his family’s background that […]

Sloan Clymer is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete who hails from Anderson, Indiana and began grappling aged 15 after training alongside his father who was big on BJJ, wrestling and […]

Meraz Avdoyan was born in Armenia and his ethnicity is Yezidi. He now lives in Kaiserslautern, Germany and grapples at Matrix BJJ Kaiserlautern. Here he trains under Rene Becker, Andreas Resch […]