About Us

Hasan, the head of GrapplingLab BJJ in Howick holds a Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He started his grappling journey back in 2001 in ADCC (Abu Dhabi Combat Club). He started freestyle wrestling training first under Alexander Savko (Sasha, the bulldozer), and with Peter Baltaliyski and Lubomir Guedjev. Then a year later, he joined the next training mat in the ADCC to start his BJJ journey under old school Brazilian masters who used to handle the ADCC team throughout the years, he trained under masters Carlos Santos, Suyan Queiroz, Olavo Abreu, Sid Jacinto, Marcelo Motta, Ricardo Fraenkel, Alex Paz, Mohd Jehad, Rafael Haubert, and many more masters & brothers. Moving to New Zealand end of 2013, Hasan’s BJJ journey is still ongoing under the guidelines of master Paulo Sorriso.

At Grappling-Lab you will learn pure BJJ instruction. You and your family members are welcome to join us.