American rapper, songwriter, and actor Wiz Khalifa is one of the most popular rap artists in the world having had a number 1 hit with the hit song “See You Again” which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 non-consecutive weeks.
Khalifa has been training in BJJ and MMA over the past few years. His BJJ instructor is the legendary Rigan Machado who has developed his own system of BJJ specially made for celebrities which he calls “Flow Jiu-Jitsu”.
It took Rigan 9 years to put it together, and it has more than 700 techniques, which can be drilled and trained without risking injury.
In the April 2015 issue of Jiu Jitsu magazine , Coral belt and BJJ legend Rigan Machado talks about the special program that he has designed by his celebrity students.
“I created a new jiu jitsu system for people who can’t get hurt. It’s technical training. They learn jiu-jitsu and technically train, but it’s all safe. I created a type of jiu-jitsu for the Beverly Hills clientele. Competition, sparring… these guys can’t do that. I can’t even take a 1% chance of them getting hurt. I have 18 celebrities doing this program. Some guys have to sign disclosure agreements; others like Ashton Kutcher and Mickey Rourke come in regularly, while Usher comes in once and a while and Vin Diesel when he’s in town.”
Other students of Rigan that train in Flow Jitsu: Ashton Kutcher, Scarlett Johansen, Usher etc…
Khalifa recently posted an instagram video of himself fighting recently retired mMA fighter Vitor Belfort:
Wiz training Muay Thai:
