Christian Graugart
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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About Us
Christian Graugart was born in 1982 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Christian started practicing martial arts in his childhood, being Tae Kwon Do his first discipline, he went on to Jeet Kune Do years later in his late teens before finding out about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in 2001 when he had his first contact with BJJ through a seminar. Christian started training Jiu-Jitsu where he could from there onwards.
In 2003 after a long trip to Portland, Oregon (US), Christian was awarded his blue belt by Matt Thornton. He continued traveling through the world, training “here and there”, being graded again by Matt Thornton in 2005 with his purple belt and later with his brown belt by Robson Barbosa (2009).
In 2011 Christian Graugart went on a trip around the world to train BJJ wherever he could. He trained at gyms in many remote locations, trading his grappling knowledge for food and shelter, while writing about his trips on his blog “BJJ Globetrotter”. His posts were a tremendous success and earned him mentions as the best BJJ blog of the year at the time, on media sources such as the Jiu-Jitsu Laboratory, and several mentions on the Fightworks Podcast. This success converted into a book which has also been received very well by BJJ practitioners and enthusiasts all over the world.
In 2012 Christian achieved the rank of black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, graded by Robson Barbosa in a ceremony also attended by Edson and Ricardo Carvalho.
Around the same time, he created BJJ Globetrotters, a global community of travelers against Jiu Jitsu politics that host BJJ training camps all over the world.
