Our writers

Miles Serrano

Miles Serrano writes about competitors and the decisions that shaped their careers. He is more interested in the adjustment someone made in the third minute than in the medal count afterward.

Tess Hanley

Tess Hanley reads the rulebooks, the entry fees and the fine print. When a federation or a gym changes something, her first question is who ends up paying for it.

Owen Bellamy

Owen Bellamy writes for the person training twice a week around a job. Nothing he suggests requires quitting the job.

Nina Okada

Nina Okada explains positions the way a good training partner does: one problem at a time, with the limits of the explanation said out loud. She is careful about the difference between what footage shows and what it only suggests.

Kit Langford

Kit Langford covers the louder parts of jiu-jitsu — the marketing claims, the arguments, the gear that promises more than gear can deliver. The jokes are expected to survive a fact-check.

Rafael Moura

Rafael Moura profiles competitors as people with lives outside the bracket. Some of those stories are comebacks. Most are not, and he does not force them.

Maya Corbett

Maya Corbett answers the questions you have before walking into an unfamiliar academy — what to book, what to bring, who to ask. Every detail in her guides traces back to something the gym published itself.