About Us

Hasan, the head of Grappling-Lab 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 under Alexander Savko (Sasha, the bulldozer), also with Peter Baltaliyski and Lubomir Guedjev. A year later, he joined the next training mat in the ADCC, that when his BJJ journey started, and where he had a great opportunity to train under old school Brazilian masters who used to handle the ADCC team throughout the years. Hasan received his training under masters Carlos Santos, Suyan Queiroz, Olavo Abreu, Sid Jacinto, Marcelo Motta, Ricardo Fraenkel, Alex Paz, Mohd Jehad, Rafael Haubert, and many more masters & training brothers. Moving to New Zealand with his family end of 2013, he joined a couple of BJJ schools, he trains under master Paulo Sorriso. During 2014, Hasan was invited to travel back to ADCC to receive his Black belt, invitation accepted with respect but traveling wasn’t an option at that time, he decided to keep training until he received his Black belt from master Paulo.

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