I'm a keen practitioner and teacher of Brazilian jiu jitsu (if you're unfamiliar with BJJ, take a look at this), so when I decided to take part in an event to raise some money for charity, I knew exactly how I wanted to do it: grappling!

Hence why ma and my fellow members of Gracie Barra Bristol are generously donating their time and bodies to the Meningitis UK Charity GrappleThon 2012. We're going to grapple for 24 hours, from 9am on Saturday 22nd September until 9am Sunday 23rd September. The whole event will be streamed live over the internet, via this link (presuming I don't run into any technical difficulties...).

No amount is too small, so please spare whatever you can for Meningitis UK. :D

Many thanks to GrappleThon sponsors, top BJJ artist and designer Seymour 'Meerkatsu' Yang (like his page on Facebook here) and renowned BJJ and MMA apparel company, Tatami Fightwear.

 

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