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Author Archive: BJJEE

Why Eastern Europeans have all the physical attributes to dominate BJJ and Grappling.

Russia’s Aleksandr Karelin Have you ever wondered why the Eastern European countries dominated the Olympics in wrestling and weightlifting? Also why international strongmen competitions have...

The smile of BJJ, world champion, Mackenzie Dern: “To get appreciated in jiu-jitsu, girls have to prove themselves even more”

1.Hi Mackenzie, can you introduce yourself to the bjj community of Eastern Europe? My name is Mackenzie Dern and I am a Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt for Gracie Humaita. I am 18 years old and I have...

Results of Bucharest trials of Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu Jitsu Championship

Congratulations to the following competitors who have all won a travel a full expense paid trip and qualification to compete at The 4th edition of World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Cup, will be held in...

Vienna BJJ Open 2012 results and review

This Saturday February 11 Vienna, Austria was host to the first edition of the Vienna Open. The competition brought together all clubs from the region, from Macedonia to Hungary all the way to...

Exclusive interview with Leonid Gatovskiy, Russia’s first BJJ black belt: “BJJ in Russia is expanding”

Leonid Gatovskiy with Renzo Gracie and Georges St Pierre 1. Hello Leonid, Please introduce yourself to the Eastern Europe BJJ community? Hi! My name is Leonid Gatovskiy. I’m 31 years old and I’ve...

20 plane tickets for the BJJ Worlds 2012 up for grabs at the Finnish Open, April 14 to 15!

The Finnish Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation are organizing The BJJ Finnish Open 2012 in Helsinki,  Finland, from April 14th to 15th.They are offering 20 plane tickets for BJJ World Championships 2012...

A Brazilian who brought BJJ to Albania, Paulo Rigon: “You tap countless times, get frustrated a thousand times but you never give up.”

Paulo Rigon with his daughter Julia 1.Paulo, you are Brazilian, lived in the states, and now live in Albania where you teach BJJ. How on earth did that happen? My wife is Albanian and she always...

Manto Evo 2.0 Gi review

This is the first of a long series of gi reviews that we will have on the website.  We will cover all the major brands and the newest gis on the market. In the 10 years that I’ve been training...

BJJ in Turkey, Burak Değer Biçer: “My goal is to make my students better than me”

1.Hi Burak, can you introduce yourself to the Eastern European bjj community? First of all I think that it’s great that you are creating a website that unites this region. We really needed it. I...

BJJ Vienna Open 2012- Competition preview and predictions

DATE: Saturday February 11, 2012ADDRESS:1090 Vienna, Spitalgasse 14 This year’s Vienna Open Marks a new breath in bjj competitions in Austria. There were Austrian Opens in 2011 and in 2010. I...

Moscow BJJ seminar 2012 w/ Christian Graugart

Anybody ever dream of training BJJ in Russia? Danish BJJ brown belt, Christian Graugart  aka The BJJ Globetrotter (he travelled all around the world in 2011 for a 6 months period, training BJJ in...

European champion at white, blue & purple belt, Romanian beast Camil Moldoveanu:” I want to live this BJJ lifestyle forever”

1.Camil , please present yourself to our community, where are you from, how old are you, what do you do for a living? Hello, I am from Bucharest, Romania , 25 years old. Since I graduated university...

How Your Jiu-Jitsu Training Can Survive The Current Cold Wave

With the temperatures hitting way below zero degrees celsius in most of Eastern Europe and North America (-25 in some areas), the question you are probably asking yourself is how am I going to train...

4 times world BJJ champion, Yuri Simoes: :”I’m going to be an icon in this sport”

1. Hi Yuri, can you please introduce yourself to the Eastern European BJJ community? Hi guys, first of all thanks for the opportunity, I am a BJJ black belt and a BJJ Athlete, all i do in my life is...

Polish BJJ beast Maciej Polok in great fight against Nicolas Renier of France

Ok guys this is a sick fight between two of the very best in Europe: Polish bjj black belt Maciej Polok (Gracie Barra Poland) vs Luta Livre black belt, Nicolas Renier of France (3 time ADCC veteran,...

European Open 2012 Highlights

Great Highlight showing the drama from the competition:

Tudor Mihaita, the pioneer of BJJ in Romania

1.Tudor, tell us a bit about yourself, where are you from, how old are you, what do you do for a living? My name is Tudor Mihaita and I’m form the country of Dracula  Meaning, Romania. I’ll be...

Exclusive interview: Fabricio Werdum BJJ Black Belt Bojan Mirkovic from Croatia

1.Bojan, please present yourself to our community, where are you from, how old are you, what do you do for a living? First of all thanks for inviting me for an interview, and compliments for the...

Shout out to new brown and purple Belts in Serbia: Mateja Valjarevic and Uros Domanovic

 Black belts Jovan Zerjal and Slobodan Davitkov of Zerjal Team Serbia recently had some new promotions after the European Open in Lisbon, Portugal. Receiving a much deserved brown belt was Mateja...

Last few days to register for World Pro BJJ Bucharest trial- get a all expense paid trip to Abu Dhabi!!!

http://www.bjjtrial.ro/?page_id=380 Registration At Bucharest Trial can register athletes of following nationalities: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and...

Regional Ace Asa Nadarevic gets Silver at Europeans 2012

After conquering almost everything in the region in 2011, Serbia Open, Hungarian, Slovenia Opens, Asa Nadarevic (Alliance Zagreb) got the silver in Blue Belt adult Heavy. He is now getting ready for...

Next tournament: BJJ Vienna Open, saturday February 11, 2012

Next tournament: BJJ Vienna Open, saturday February 11, 2012 Contact:      mangabjj@drei.at Offical weightclasses and divisions! Male white-63.9kg, -69.9kg, -75.9kg, -82.2kg, -88.2kg,-94.3kg,...

European Open 2012: Rodolfo rules in Lisbon

This Sunday the 29th marks the completion of the European Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.  Rodolfo Vieira repeated the stellar performance he put in at last year’s Pan and Worlds,...

Welcome to Bjj Eastern Europe!

WELCOME TO BJJ EASTERN EUROPE! The goal of the website is for the BJJ community of Central-Eastern Europe to meet and read about the latest bjj news , events, seminars, competitions in the region....