From the Ancient Greeks to the Japanese Samurais different grappling arts have moved from the first Olympics and battlefields to dojos and academies around the world. Wrestling, Jiu-jitsu, Judo, Sambo, Grappling and MMA are now worldwide known and practiced sports. All of us practicing and enjoying them are part of a community, a culture, that we enrich with our dedication in one way or the other.
After more than seven years working on the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu media market, Maggie Left and Dominik Borowyczk have come together and joined forces to create a new online platform, GrappleCulture.com
We want it to be the European media platform of reference for the grappling community. An online spot to learn, discover, discuss, get to know better and expand our knowledge and vision of the art.
This website is our way of listening and adding to the community while featuring different aspects of it. A place for sporting integrity, equality, inclusion and diversity built in Europe.
We want to create an online space not just to deliver the latest news, videos and pictures from competitions. But also instructional videos, articles, podcasts, documentary short films, training sessions, expert talks on nutrition, strength and conditioning or mental health.
A new website to better get to know the most representative figures and shine a light on the often under-showcased ones of the sport.
GrappleCulture is a platform created for the community that thinks of the supporters and the professionals alike.
We want to create an online space not just to deliver the latest news, videos and pictures from competitions, but also instructional videos, articles, podcasts, documentary short films, training sessions, and expert talks on nutrition, strength and conditioning, or mental health.
A new website to better get to know the most representative figures and shine a light on the often under-showcased ones of the sport.
After many years of covering hundreds of tournaments, gyms and seminars around Europe and the US it’s time to put all we’ve learnt to better use.
The pandemic has shown all of us a lot of the work that could be done to help the grappling community to grow stronger and, right now, we believe that more and better media outlets can help to improve the reach of our art and its benefits.
Maggie Left is one of the sport’s most beloved photographers.
Currently working as one of the main photographers at the IBJJF, Maggie has captured some of the most iconic moments in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu over the last 7 years.
Now she wants to use GrappleCulture to help telling athlete’s stories and give back to the community through her trademark emotive storytelling and high-quality content.
Dominik also known as Borojitsu started photographing jiu jitsu at local Polish tournament back in 2018. Since then he is fully committed himself to document the beauty of grappling, photographing at all major events, camps and academies.
As part of GrappleCulture Dominik wants to help spread Jiu-Jitsu, while focusing on promoting European athletes and rising young stars
At the moment we are counting on our own resources to build GrappleCulture. We thought about hiring more people and creating a PPV / subscription system but we know things are tighter after the pandemic so we’ve decided to go for a crowdfunding type of business in which anyone who can/want to help can donate to our page to support the creation of more and better content. We believe in this community and your support has been massive along the years so we hope to be able to grow GrappleCulture and bring more and better content for you all! If you feel like supporting us please check our Help us out! section!
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