BJJ Globetrotters USA Camp Maine 2027

Will Dorman is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt based in Sarasota, Florida, who travels internationally to teach. His BJJ Globetrotters classes have included pressure and side control at Zen Camp 2024 and half-guard shoulder-crunch attacks and sweeps at Spring Camp 2026.

Steve Austin owns Sion Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Pennsylvania. He earned his black belt under Alison 'Jucão' Brites and won a NAGA black-belt title in 2012. He remains connected to the Balance affiliation through Sion BJJ.

Joey Carta began training in 2004 and has taught with BJJ Globetrotters since its first Copenhagen camp in 2013. He stepped in when another instructor became ill and went on to teach at camps across Europe and the United States. A Connecticut black belt and 2013 Boston Spring Open gold medalist, Joey especially enjoys helping students work through an unfamiliar technique until it starts to make sense.

Kirk Phillips is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and former Marine Corps close-combat instructor. He began learning Jiu-Jitsu while stationed in Okinawa in 1997, continued training in North Carolina and Tennessee, and earned his black belt in 2022. After teaching at Shield Systems in Knoxville, he moved to Somerset, Kentucky, where he teaches with Insight BJJ. He has also taught at BJJ Globetrotters camps since 2022.

Kyle Sleeman's martial-arts background began in 1988, followed by grappling in 1999 and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in 2005. Based in Ontario, he combines teaching with competition experience, including bronze medals at the 2025 Pan Ams and 2024 No-Gi Worlds. His favorite subjects to teach include takedowns and guard passing, with an emphasis on sharing his enthusiasm for martial arts and making visitors feel welcome on the mats.

Chris Paines is the head coach of Fighting Fit Grappling in Stafford, England. His teaching focuses on the mechanics that connect positions: how to control the head, knees and armpits, protect space and understand why a technique works. He developed that approach while training in a small club without a senior coach, testing ideas with his training partners. His classes use principles and live problem-solving rather than long lists of moves to memorize.

Tom Dowdall is a black belt based in Belleville, Ontario, training with Limitless Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing. His training history begins at Toronto's Samurai Club in 1994, and he earned his BJJ black belt in 2023 after progressing through the ranks at Loyalist Martial Arts Academy. Known around the camps as 'Crash Test Tommy,' he has taught seminars and camp classes in North America and Europe while continuing his own training in both gi and no-gi.

Joshua Janis co-owns White Lotus Jiu Jitsu in Milwaukee and began training in 2000. He teaches a precise, playful approach aimed at helping hobbyists become skilled without making every session a battle of endurance. His technical work includes the Guillotine Glossary instructional series. Outside Jiu-Jitsu, his work has included communication coaching.

Sigurgeir Heiðarsson is a Reykjavík MMA coach and black belt from Iceland. His camp teaching has included attacking the turtle at USA Camp 2024 and butterfly sweeps and attacks at USA Camp 2025. Those previous classes give a sense of the positional grappling he brings to the mats, from working underneath an opponent to finding finishes from the top.

Greg Wood owns Plainville Martial Arts in Connecticut and earned his black belt under Pedro Sauer. His Jiu-Jitsu training began in 1997, and he teaches at BJJ Globetrotters camps. At Plainville, he works with students of different abilities and experience levels.

Rob Cole teaches at Ascension Athletics in Connecticut, bringing a background in submission grappling, MMA and traditional martial arts. He is a former co-owner and instructor at 10th Planet Hartford and previously coached grappling and MMA under Frank Shamrock. His qualifications also include Jeet Kune Do Concepts instruction and black belts in BJJ and TKD/karate. His current training is focused on no-gi grappling.

Paul Elliott is the coach and writer behind SimpleBJJ. His background includes teaching at American Top Team Watertown, and his Jiu-Jitsu focuses on fundamentals and mental models. A software engineer as well as a black belt, he explores the mechanics of grappling and the ideas that help students understand it.

Ryan Fennelly is a New Hampshire black belt who has coached classes and a competition team at Burgess MMA. A multiple-time NAGA champion, he has attended Globetrotters camps in Maine, Iceland, Germany, Arizona and St. Barthélemy. His past camp classes include shin-to-shin half guard and approaches to controlling the back. He enjoys teaching systems that give students a different way to solve familiar grappling problems.

Christian Graugart founded BJJ Globetrotters and wrote The BJJ Globetrotter, connecting his own travels with an open training community. He began BJJ in 2000 and also founded an academy in Copenhagen, which he ran for 15 years. His camp classes favor fundamental mechanics and ideas that work across skill levels. For Christian, training is also a way to make friends, see the world and keep enjoying movement without having to chase every new technique.

Meghan Wagner co-owns and teaches at White Lotus Jiu Jitsu in Milwaukee. She came to BJJ after 13 years of Taekwondo, tried her first class with a discount coupon and found a new obsession in grappling. That path led to her black belt, teaching and building the academy. Her approach makes room for problem-solving, playful movement and community. Away from the mats, she is a reader, traveler and maker of book-inspired candles.

Matthew Gallagher leads Grind Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Iowa and earned his black belt under Tom DeBlass in 2020. His training history stretches back to 2003 and includes time in North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma and New Jersey.

Brynjólfur Ingvarsson is a Reykjavík black belt who earned his rank at Mjölnir in 2023. His background also includes boxing and MMA competition, and he won an Icelandic national title in 2023. Previous camp teaching has included leg locks at Winter Camp 2026. He brings experience across striking and submission grappling to his work on the mats.

Ben Moore is a Maine black belt under Alexey Pickerell. He co-hosts the Flow Sub Only Podcast, discussing subjects such as defensive layers, building a focused game and training sustainably as you get older. He also runs ABG Creative, working in photography and video.

Alan Titone is a yoga instructor, Jiu-Jitsu coach and co-founder of Karma Jiu Jitsu. He and Raechel opened their first academy in Ajax, Ontario, in 2023 and a second in Colorado in 2026. A U.S. Army veteran, Alan has traveled widely to train and teach, combining his study of body mechanics with yoga and an interest in how lessons from the mats carry into daily life.

Damion Triplett is a Portland, Oregon black belt with a background in collegiate wrestling at Portland State University. He trains within the Combat Base community and has won three silver medals at brown belt at the Master Worlds. His camp experience includes Maine, Arizona and Poland. That combination of wrestling, tournament competition and training across different gyms gives him a broad grappling background to draw on.

Anthony Restuccia is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt who trains at Hayabusa Academy in Kingston, Ontario. He earned his black belt in 2025, with Chris Wellstood and Elliott Bayev involved in the promotion. His connection to the camps goes back several years: he received his brown belt at the 2022 Maine camp. Anthony trains in both gi and no-gi, with most of his mat time in the gi, and has competed across four weight classes.

Brad Wolfson owns and leads Soulcraft Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Hamden, Connecticut, and is a black belt under Marcio Stambowsky. His academy emphasizes a welcoming environment for beginners, practical self-defense and competition training. He has taught at Globetrotters camps around the world, with past classes including triangles from different positions. His focus is on helping people learn in a safe, friendly training community.

Eric Bydairk is a Chris Haueter black belt and former NCAA Division I wrestler at Lock Haven University. He won gold at the 2014 IBJJF Europeans in the Master 2 purple-belt division and has taught at Globetrotters camps since 2014. Through Takedown Nation, he connects wrestling with Jiu-Jitsu: hand fighting, underhooks, takedowns, front headlocks and the transition from standing exchanges into control on the ground.

Rich Sab is a New Jersey black belt and personal trainer whose martial-arts training began in 1985, followed by BJJ in 2003. His camp class 'Think For Yourself' puts students into positional problems and asks them to find different solutions rather than repeat one favorite move. He has taught in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean, combining a long training background with a practical interest in helping students use what they already know.

Michael 'Mike' Demko is the head instructor at Wrecking Crew BJJ in Pennsylvania. A black belt in the Rigan Machado and Erik Paulson lineage, he is also a certified Combat Submission Wrestling coach under Paulson. His teaching brings together no-gi Jiu-Jitsu, catch-wrestling influences and MMA. He has coached amateur and professional fighters as well as youth grapplers, and teaches lessons and seminars beyond his home academy.