Grapple Asia Interview Ep. 19 | Deddy Wigraha & Dimas Bramastyo | Indonesian BJJ & 'Special Forces BJJ'

Deddy Wigrarha is the Head Coach of the Indonesia National Team and Dimas Brarmastyo is one of the athletes from the said team. Both are based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Deddy would be exposed to Jiu-Jitsu in 1996 in the USA, when he was a student in university, which in turn would ultimately shape the future of Jiu-Jitsu in Indonesia.

By 2011, Deddy would form 'Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Indonesia' and develop as a coach not only for athletes but for the special forces of Indonesia.

Dimas would come to discover Jiu-Jitsu in college and falling in love with the sport so much so that he would represent Indonesia as a 'Newaza' athlete.

We discuss Indonesia's Jiu-Jitsu scene and how he plans to make a transition to coach his own gym, Alliance North Jakarta.

This episode was recorded in June 2024 when Deddy and his Team were visiting Thailand to train and compete in the Jiu-Jitsu Thailand Open Grand Prix held in June 2024.

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Timestamps

0:00 Sponsors

1:38 Guest introduction

2:08 Deddy's introduction to Jiu-Jitsu

5:22 The start of BJJ in Indonesia

6:50 First BJJ gym in Indonesia

8:55 Why Alliance Jiu-Jitsu?

9:24 Cigarette sponsored No-gi?

11:34 Government support in 2018

15:36 Becoming the National Team Coach

19:08 Different states, different funding

25:14 Jiu-Jitsu for Special Forces

30:31 Dimas & Jiu-Jitsu

35:30 Politics versus representation

39:22 Dimas on SE Asia's level of BJJ

42:58 Hardianism / GFTeam Indonesia

46:02 Dimas transition to coaching

49:11 Dimas is now too 'balls deep' in BJJ

55:11 Rapid fire

59:22 Gratitude

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