Tarsis Humphreys victorious at the 2010 BJJ Mundials
Interview: David Webb, 11 August 2010
Images by kind permission of Alicia Anthony @ aliciaphotos.com
Perennial podium finisher over the past few years, Alliance stalwart, Tarsis Humphreys, reached the pinnacle of his Jiu Jitsu career back in June 2010 when he won the Meio-Pesado event at the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Mundials with an emphatic win over his rival Romulo Barral.
With his pinpoint leg attacks that home in like a crude missile, Tarsis provides much of the backbone to the phenomenal success of team Alliance and amongst …

Interview by David Webb, 26th May 2010.

Interview by David Webb, 3rd March 2010
This week KombatClinic.com has had the pleasure of interviewing yet another legend from the world of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu – Professor Vinicius Magalhães  – a fourth degree black belt under Carlos Gracie Jr. and the Gracie Barra Academy.
Professor Magalhães or “Draculino” as he is better known, is the head instructor of Gracie Barra Texas and the Gracie Barra Belo Horizonte Schools and amongst his students, you will find Mundial winners, Pan-Am champions, national BJJ champions, champion mixed martial artists and grapplers and a total of more than …

The rationale for writing this brief post was met over a Grande soy almond latte in Starbucks. You read Val Worthington’s nemesis [the sauce] is diet coke well, soy almond latte is mine and at £3.00 a pop it’s a little more expensive too, anyway, I was perusing an edition of the Sunday Times sports section when I came across an article concerning age and competitive sportsmen and women. The raison d’être for the piece seemed to be the imminent return of Michael Schumacher, the seven times Formula One motor …

Interview: David Webb, 10 September 2009
When you ask most people what was there inspiration for starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) or any sport for that matter that contains an element of grappling they, more often than not, use the first few Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) and the performances of one Royce Gracie as a point of reference.
For me it was after a trip to the local HMV store in Cambridge – UK, where I was living at the time. I had just purchased a VHS copy …