The Grapplers Perspective #89 - Christian Graugart - BJJ Globetrotters: Build Friendships, Not Business Relationships
Christian Graugart, founder of BJJ Globetrotters and Beltchecker.com, shares his mission to create a jiu-jitsu community built on friendship rather than business relationships. His approach has grown into the world's largest jiu-jitsu affiliation with 1,300 academies worldwide and over 100 camps conducted across multiple continents.
- Started BJJ Globetrotters to offer an alternative to traditional affiliations that charge money and control belt promotions
- Recently hosted camp #113 in Heidelberg, Germany with 330 participants and 35 instructors
- Believes jiu-jitsu's rigid hierarchy creates problems, preventing knowledge sharing and improvement
- Criticizes how jiu-jitsu is taught compared to professional sports coaching methodologies
- Began traveling to learn jiu-jitsu in 2011, visiting 56 academies in 5 months
- Developed camps organically when visitors to his Copenhagen academy became too numerous
- Created BeltChecker.com to provide community-based verification of jiu-jitsu ranks
- Implemented time-based black belt degree promotions on BeltChecker, challenging traditional promotion models
- Values the human connections formed at camps, including friendships and even relationships that led to "camp babies"
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