After a life-changing trip around the world in 2010, Christian Graugart decided to write about his experiences in ‘The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter’. Training in 56 academies around the world inside a time period of 140 days is no doubt an educational experience on many levels.
‘The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter’ tells us of training in some of the most remote academies around the world and a passion for the sport which manages to keep it alive in even the most unlikely of places. The book focuses on not only learning and growing as a martial artists along the journey but also the life experiences that can change a persons outlook on life and how to live it.
Training with so many people and making friends all over the world soon made the idea of BJJ politics and only training under one academy seem very strange. The whole experience then led to the birth of the BJJ Globetrotters, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu travel community and affiliation consisting of thousands of individuals and academies around the world. The community provides the tools and network for people to connect through the BJJ when traveling and is also organizing training camps and producing super light gis that take little space in the backpack while the road.
‘The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter’ is now available for free download here: http://www.
