North Leeds Jitz

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. 

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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-One Podcast

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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 his school GB Fulham 

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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.

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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

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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

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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

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