The BJJ-India Connection part 6 : Think again

Mirza Bashir Ahmad visited us from the US in march 2009 , although he visited us to train in mma , he was also a good training partner for Alan. They both exchanged knowledge on their grappling skills.

Raghav Rao during his first visit to nasik at the old tigers gym training facility.

Christian Graugart , bjj brown belt from denmark watching over and correcting positions while Alan and Vicky roll.

Vicky , helping the beginners understand the basics of the ground game at the Evolution MMA Mumbai gym.

Its easy for anyone to take us at our face value and say "Oh bjj is at a very low level in India" or "yeah mma exists in India but its at the very grassroot level" , I would think quite the contrary my friends. If you would compare us to the other countries all of who have BJJ black belts stationed and working on a long term basis with them I think we have been doing pretty well. yes we do have access to high level grappling instructors at regular intervals but even though we dont have our own dedicated inhouse bjj black belt what we do have is a very dedicated and ever learning team of grapplers lead by Alan Fenandes. Our mission is to strive for excellence and perfection and with our entire team of ex-judokas and ex-wrestlers there to support us Im sure we will get there pretty soon. All said and done - if you have an experience in teaching bjj / grappling for mma and are interested to come over to our gyms and work with us for a while we can definately help get you a place to stay and good food to eat. If you believe in us and want to work with us on a long term basis for bjj in India send me an email on tigersgym@gmail.com and we will talk. Hope you all enjoyed reading the BJJ-India Connection article.[to be continued for a long long time lol]