After living in the Sacred Valley, I came to the city of Cusco. I have started to train at the academy Fuerza Suave, located at the Bunker, 2 months ago and I’m still there. All the team and the professors Nico Curich and Diego Yule are really sympathetic. As Cusco…
I planned to go to Cusco in Peru and met Estephano who does bjj and lives in the Sacred Valley. I went to his house surrounded by mountains and nature in the community of Arin. We started to train together on simple carpets in his house. Some days after, I…
I went to La Paz and trained at Allianza Mma Bolivia. They trained no gi because they were preparing a nogi tournament for September. The training was hard (cardio and physically) especially at 3500m of altitude. I trained 3 times. We practiced stand-up exercises, techniques and finished by a lot…
When I was in Tarija, JP Miranda, the professor of his bjj team JP Miranda (Lotus Club) asked me to pass by his city, Santa Cruz. So I went there and arrived in a small Brazilian city. In fact, it was situated near the medicine university surrounded by a big brazilian…
In Tarija, the professor Luis, gave me the contact of his uncle who knows Gerónimo, the professor of Game Fight BJJ in Cochabamba. I went to his academy and trained 2 times. The second time, he let me give the class. The first class, I had a new time this shortness of…
In Tarija, a guy gave me the contact of Yelson who is the bjj professor of Gracie Barra in Sucre. I went to this pretty city to train there and he let me give the classes. Sucre is at 2810m of altitude and during some positions (especially on bottom) I…
I read in a blog that Tarija was a city not too touristic and a sympathetic city to go in Bolivia. As I found a BJJ team, I decided to go there for my first city in this country. I find a contact on facebook and wrote him. Luis offered…
A belgian friend suggest me to go to the pretty city Salta, so I decided to visit it before to go to Bolivia. I found the team Guidici to train. As they can only train 3 times a week, classes are longer, between 2h and 3h, depending of the day. I…
In Santiago, I met Francesca who suggested me to go to Antofagasta to train with his friend Alejandro, professor of the team Caes de Rua. So I decided to stop 2 days in this city. I travelled by night from Copiapo to Antofagasta and did the first class at noon….
I found two guys, Juan and Gabriel, on couchsurfing in Copiapo who where doing BJJ, so I asked them if I could be hosted and train with them. They accepted and I went to train to their academy : team Ulloa. The class is only 3 times a week, but…
When I trained in Cicero Costha from Valparaiso, I met Raul Valencia, who has his academy in Viña del Mar. So, I went one evening to his class with my friend, Francisca from Viña del Mar. It was a Nogi class, where we did a lot of nice leglock techniques…
During my stay in Viña del Mar, I received a message from a guy, Tomas, who invited me to train with his team : clube de jiu-jitsu Pitbull. I could only go there on saturday morning, what I did. We were a small class, but it was nice and I…
When I was in Buenos Aires, I went to the Mercosur tournament, with my Uruguayan friend Fausto who competed there. His semi-final opponent was a Chilien from the Equipo Cohab who I met again in Viña del Mar. He trains in Viña at the noon class and give the class on…
At the same moment I was in Viña del Mar, Behnaz was there too. I know her from BJJ Women Camp in Holland. She was training at Cohab, so I joined her during a little bit more than a week. It was a lot of good training and fights, with…
I met Francesca on the BjjGlobletrotter facebook group. She offered me to train with her in her academy. She uses to train in Cicero Costha academy in Viña del Mar, but I arrived on Saturday and the following Monday was a Hollyday, so we went to the other Cicero Costha…