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.
