davidooibjj

09/12/2025

ADCC Asia Trials 2025 in the bag - incredibly proud of the boys:

- seeing this young man starting to fulfill the potential myself and countless others have seen in him since the beginning is wonderful. Looking forward to seeing what he will do next. His opponents will not be looking forward.

- in addition to being second best hire made this year (sorry exists), has also gone on an absolute tear, developing as an athlete to the point he actually has a signature move he performs at the highest level.

- despite sharing a surname he ain't my brother, he's heavy. Because he didn't cut weight and entered what was quietly the most stacked u99 division Asia's seen in quite a while. Excited to go full smash mode again when I get back into training.

(mercenary) - been very unlucky at all previous trials he's done, mainly because has been there to provide bad luck. Got to show he's one of the best guys to come out of Singapore in this sport. But I will still crop him out of pictures to keep in.

Well done to as well on another day showing he's the best in the world.

15/07/2025

day out for for their first event in Singapore. Great performance from everyone as we came away as the best performing nogi gym. Great to see everyone getting out there and testing themselves.

Congratulations as well to the friend of that is getting married on our grading day, so I had to promote her early on the podium instead.

12/05/2025

Had a fantastic time in Florence attending a coaching camp for those keen on implementing the constraints led approach in grappling.

Big thanks to and for organising and sharing their understanding/framework for coaching jiujitsu. is a great gym too for anyone looking to train in Florence.

Good to catch up with too. Also steak and nice scenery.

15/02/2025

Sorry for the bad genetics.

26/10/2024

Great day out at with the squad. 5 competitors grabbing a haul of 3🥇 1🥈 and 2🥉.

Proud of everyone that stepped up and had some really tough matches where digging deep was necessary. Good to have the squad show up to support too!

22/04/2024

20/12/2023

Milo Joseph Ooi.

09/12/2023

Promotion day is always fun. Congrats to everyone on your hard work.

I zoomed and cropped extra hard for your picture. ran away

04/12/2023

Was asked recently by to take over as head referee of and was very happy to accept, and look forward to being part of more big events going forward.

Refereeing is obviously a hard job, but as a fan of sports myself I believe my duty as a ref is to effectively be a non-talking point and I will endeavour to make this the case.

Part of this will be to provide a level of education on the rules to competitors and coaches - ADCC rules can be complicated, but they tend to also make for some very exciting matches that I was happy to witness from the closest seat in the house at the recent Asia trials (except and trying to run me over. Pls no).

Stay tuned for some educational content that Shinya and I hope to put out soon.

28/10/2023

First time having our kids team compete today at the interclub for and what a great day it was. All of the kids showed great character, effort and determination today. But more importantly, fun was had.

Also, couldn't get an opponent to do jiujitsu with him, so game as anything he decided to do Sambo rules with 10 hours of total grappling experience. Had to teach him Sambo rules yesterday and he showed up and did fantastically well.