The story of my trip around the world to train, teach and compete in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and other grappling arts.


The amazing around-the-world burger project: New York City, New York.

I got this burger recommended by a reader of my blog. It was training in a secret spot hidden inside the Parker Meridien hotel on Manhattan. A fancy hotel with an expensive looking lobby, hiding behind a curtain and secret entrance a sleazy, noisy and dirty burger gym.

The burger was selling itself well. It had a great story about how it fought it’s way out of poverty in the burger favelas and now ran a gym in a fancy hotel in New York. unfortunately, it didn’t really live up to the hype in my eyes. It was like going to a seminar with a big shot world champion and only learning self defense techniques against rape choke and grab-my-wrist attacks.

It had a great base and good balance. It only had a few techniques though and they were not really impressive. The mat fee was also really high, $8 for a single roll. And I had to stand in line for 30 minutes while trying to warm up.

A good opponent for me, but not world class as it pretended to be.

Blue belt three stripes!

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  1. Georgette

    I have at least four burgers for you to try in Austin, which is sad, because I doubt you’ll get to try any traditional Tex-Mex or barbeque if I feed you only burgers!

    May 16, 2011 @ 22:00


  2. joe

    if you get this while still in richmond, hit carytown burger and fries and grab a brie burger. i’d guess it’d be a decent brown belt.

    May 16, 2011 @ 23:18


  3. mike g

    Tsk tsk Christian, I told you to hit Peter McManus on 19th and 7th:)

    May 17, 2011 @ 02:08

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