From white belt to purple —
all of it on film.

I'm David — "The Griz." I'm an ultra-heavyweight, a purple belt, and a single dad who decided to take competitive jiu-jitsu seriously and film every step of it.

It started at white belt and it's been a grind ever since — white to blue to purple, somewhere around 30 competitions, 38 gold medals, and an IBJJF World Master title along the way. Every one of those matches is on camera. So are the losses.

There's a hole in the content out there: below-black-belt jiu-jitsu for the big guys barely gets shown. So I started recording — my matches, and as much of my bracket as I can capture at the major tournaments. It's a humble, mat-side record, not an official archive. But it's ours.

People come up to me at tournaments and say we roll the same — that it's good to finally see someone built like them out there competing. That's the whole point. Not to look unbeatable: to show up, compete in public, win some and lose some, and prove the big guys belong on the mat too. If I can do it, so can you.