Santiago was my first city in Chile. A friend from Holland, Behnaz, who is a bjj globetrotters too, help me to find a jiu-jitsuka who can host me. I went with him to train in the Cohab team from Santiago. I trained 4 times, gave the technic of the Tuesday…
I found 2 members of bjj globetrotters in Mendoza and with their help, I met Marcelo who offered to hosting me. I landed in his family (his wife, 2 kids and 2 dogs) and it was really nice. Marcelo (on the top and right of the photo) is a rugby…
After one week of rest, I did one week of training in Cordoba. Pamela, from Buenos Aires gave me the contact of two bjj girls who hosted me and trained with me. I learned, trained and rolled everyday with a lot of good vibes. Mariano, the professor will participate at…
For my second part of staying in Buenos Aires, I was hosted by Pamela Bovida, a brown belt, who I met on the facebook group Bjj Globetrotter. I trained with her and her boyfriend at Nova Uniao at United MMA Fight Center. The first day, I trained at 4pm and…
My friend Fausto from Uruguay has to go to Buenos Aires to do a bjj tournament. So I went with him. He introduced me to the Sukata academy of Buenos Aires and the Sukata BJJ women. We travelled by night, bus and ferry and we arrive the morning at 8am….
I’m arrived at Montevideo to see a bjj friend, Fausto and train with him in his academy Sukata with his professor Pablo Solis. I will stay here 2 weeks. People are really friendly. Today, I gave the class with basic techniques that I like a lot. And after we had…
Porto Alegre was my last city in Brazil before going to Uruguay. I didn’t know, where to train and I found Mario Reis Academy on google map. I knew his name but I didn’t really know about him. I know more about bjj women than men. So I read his…
Today, the wife of the owner of the jiu-jitsu hostel pick me up to train to Torres, the city at the side of Passo de Torres. It was nice, there were a good group of women and strong guys. We did a lot of rolls after a football warming-up.
For fun, I put the word “jiu” in the search of the website booking.com and I found the jiu-jitsu hostel in Passo de Torres. It was on my road to the South of Brazil before Uruguay. So I decided to stop there. I arrived and the receptionist wear his gi…
I was walking near Campeche during the week-end and two times I saw a jiu-jitsu guys. How I recognized them like jiu-jitsu guys? Easy… The first one was on a bike with a gi wrapped with his black belt. The second one wear a bag made from gi fabrics and jiu-jitsu…
Paula, a friend of a friend invite me to train in her academy in Rio. Nice training and nice rolls.
I went 3 days to Brasilia to see my friend Julio. He trained in Belgium at Malicia Team and taught english boxing at Malicia Training Center. When Julio went back to Brazil, he decided to open his own academy named “Life Projects” with the following sports : Brazilian Jiu Jitsu,…
I’m in Rio one month to train at Checkmat – Fightzone in Copacabana. Good technics, hard training and a lot of sweat.
Today is Friday Saint and it’s a Holliday in Brazil, so a lot of BJJ academies are closed because everybody is travelling or resting or having fun. Luckily, I’ve found some guys who were training today whose one woman black belt and light-feather (so my weight). It was a great…
Today I wanted to train at Beto & Cia with Roberto Ferreira because he’s the professor of my professor Bruno Pedras. Unfortunately when you travel, you forget that there are some hollidays and this weekend is Easter so everything will be closed like a lot of bjj academies. And the class…