Exclusive interview with Polish BJJ ace, Piotr “Bagi” Baginski
Apr 06, 2012BJJEE
1. Hello Piotr, can you tell the Eastern European BJJ community about yourself and your journey in bjj? My name is Piotr Baginski and I live In Szczecin – Poland. At present I work as a full...
PAN AMS 2012 PLAY BY PLAY! Saturday March 31
Mar 30, 2012BJJEE
Tune in here at 9am California time or 6pm Paris or Belgrade time on Saturday and Sunday (March 31 April 1rst) for the live play by play right here on BJJ EASTERN EUROPE!To go to Sunday April...
Interview with BJJ globetrotter, BJJ black belt Dimitris Tsitos from Greece who has competed/trained/lived in 6 continents. Part 2
Mar 30, 2012BJJEE
Dimitris in Brazil You can find part 1 of the interview here Dimitris fighting MMA in Sout Africa 4. What countries left you the best impressions (BJJ wise and lifestyle) I don’t want to be...
Edson Ricardo Alemao talks about BJJ in Montenegro
Mar 22, 2012BJJEE
1.Hi Edson, can you present yourself to the Eastern Europe BJJ community? Hi, my name is Edson Rodriguez Ricardo Alemao, coach of Equipe Fabricio in Podgorica, Montenegro, BJJ second degree black...
BJJ SUMMER CAMP – ZADAR/ Croatia with BJJ legend Leo Vieira!
Mar 19, 2012BJJEE
August 15 at 9:00am until August 21 at 11:00am Welcome to Zadar Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Summer Camp – Join us for One Intense Week of training – with Leonardo Vieira, Leonardo Neves and guests....
Crazy berimbolos, back takes and leg drags, meet the new aces of BJJ: The Miyao brothers!
Mar 19, 2012BJJEE
Joao (black gi) and Paulo (blue gi) Miyao They’re twins born on May 11, 1992. They started training in Andirá, Brazil with Professor Adriano Carvalho of Norte Sul Jiu-Jitsu academy. About a year...
Guilherme & Rafael Mendes give us an insight about their goals for 2012, their training & conditioning regimen, nutrition, and their opponents
Mar 08, 2012BJJEE
Guilherme (left) and Rafael Mendes (right) 1. Hi Rafael and Guilherme, it’s a great honor for us at bjjeasteurope.com to have you on our humble website. You have many fans in Eastern Europe!...
Turkey’s Ertan Balaban talks us about why he’s putting his promising MMA career on hold and refocusing on BJJ
Mar 05, 2012BJJEE
Ertan Balaban (Center) Ertan can you please introduce yourself to our readers? Hello, my name is Ertan Balaban I am 29 years old and I am from İstanbul, Turkey. I started to train martial arts...
Ricardo “Franjinha” Miller visits Copacobana BJJ academy in Poland
Mar 04, 2012BJJEE
Our friends at grapplerinfo.pl recently had an interview with Ricardo “Franjinha” Miller during his seminar at the Copacobana academy in Warsaw. Franjinha is one of the best Brazilian Jiu Jitsu...
Who was the first European to win a gold medal at the BJJ Worlds in the black belt division? Laurence Cousin Fouillat of France!
Mar 02, 2012BJJEE
Thanks to my friends at BJJ Heroes and IKUSA.FR for the original article Worlds 2007 The French Laurence Cousin Fouillat is regarded as the first European female black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu...
Rio Grappling Club Poland’s Mariusz Koziej talks about the BJJ scene in Poland, running his academies and the growth of the RGC network
Feb 28, 2012BJJEE
Mariusz (left) with Nenad Latincic (blue gi) and Robeto Atalla 1. Mariusz, can you tell the Eastern European BJJ community about yourself and your journey in bjj? Hi My name is Mariusz Koziej I’m...
Clark Gracie talks about making his mark in the black belt, his childhood, his academy and also about the problem of steroids in BJJ
Feb 23, 2012BJJEE
Clark Gracie is a Jiu Jitsu black belt under his father, Carley Gracie. Clark is also the grandson to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu founder Carlos Gracie. In keeping with the family trade, Clark Gracie became a...
Asian champion, silver medalist at Brasileiro, Worlds & Europeans, the Philippine’s Ralph Go: “I want to win the Worlds in 2012!”
Feb 22, 2012BJJEE
Ralph spends a lot of this training in Brazil and the US with the Mendes bros. 1. Ralph, can you please introduce yourself to the Eastern European BJJ community? Hi guys, my name is Ralph Go. I am...
BJJ Black Belt Leonardo Neves, talks to us about his academies in Sweden, Turkey, Croatia and Serbia.
Feb 15, 2012BJJEE
1. Hi Leo, can you please introduce yourself to our readers? First I want to thank you for the invitation of the interview and for this initiative in creating a site for the eastern part of Europe....
Why Eastern Europeans have all the physical attributes to dominate BJJ and Grappling.
Feb 15, 2012BJJEE
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...
Exclusive interview with Leonid Gatovskiy, Russia’s first BJJ black belt: “BJJ in Russia is expanding”
Feb 12, 2012BJJEE
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...
European champion at white, blue & purple belt, Romanian beast Camil Moldoveanu:” I want to live this BJJ lifestyle forever”
Feb 08, 2012BJJEE
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...
Exclusive interview: Fabricio Werdum BJJ Black Belt Bojan Mirkovic from Croatia
Feb 03, 2012BJJEE
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...
Setting Up The Guillotine Choke Without Losing Position & Compromising Yourself
Jan 17, 0203BJJEE
The Guillotine Choke is a very powerful submission, one that gets all of the attention from everyone when performed correctly! However, if you don’t set it up properly, it can be defended...
