North Leeds Jitz

This week on the show we are joined by Coach Anthony Saunders.

@asaundersbjj is a purple belt under @gazmurphy22 at @graciebarramiddlesbrough and @graciebarrahartlepool where he coaches! He is also a highly decorated competitor including winning at the national and European levels!

Anthony shares his super-powerful story of how BJJ changed his life from being overweight and living a very unhealthy lifestyle to the great coach and competitor he is now.

Anthony also shared with us how the GB community have been incredibly supportive of him and his family as they continue to go through an extremely difficult time with his daughter battling brain cancer.

If you would like to reach out to Anthony in support we encourage you to do so or message us and we can pass it along!

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This week on the show we are joined by Coach Anthony Saunders.

@asaundersbjj is a purple belt under @gazmurphy22 at @graciebarramiddlesbrough and @graciebarrahartlepool where he coaches! He is also a highly decorated competitor including winning at the national and European levels!

Anthony shares his super-powerful story of how BJJ changed his life from being overweight and living a very unhealthy lifestyle to the great coach and competitor he is now. 

Anthony also shared with us how the GB community have been incredibly supportive of him and his family as they continue to go through an extremely difficult time with his daughter battling brain cancer.

If you would like to reach out to Anthony in support we encourage you to do so or message us and we can pass it along!

Our Links:

https://graciebarraroundhay.co.uk/

Insta - @gracie_barra_roundhay_leeds

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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 passion for developing people. And despite both BJJ schools in the same city it's great to see how we can still keep politics out of BJJ and just enjoy our shared passion for martial arts!

Keep up with Liam here: 

@liam_cann_bjj

https://www.scrambleacademyleeds.com

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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 corrupted and we had to go to our backup microphone. As such the audio quality starts out quite poor but is normal from post 30mins.

@graciebarrabradford

@craig.tetley.790

https://graciebarrabradford.com/

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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

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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 getting silver in the Brazilian championships.

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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 Paul one of the UK “Dirty Dozen” (the first twelve UK born Black Belts).

Prof Paul is also the owner of Gracie Barra Hastings where he teaches alongside his wife Ali who is also a black belt in BJJ.

You can keep up with Paul here: @gracie_barra_hastings

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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 limit match with Rener Gracie as a Blue Belt. 

Find Marc here: https://markwaldermusic.com/

@marcwalderbjj

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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

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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

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