The Grapple Travel Show ep.3 "Method BCN"

Hey Globetrotters,

The show is back!

This episode is on Method BCN, one of the gyms in Barcelona, Spain.

There’s been a hiatus while I worked on my online cooking course and earned some money to continue building the bus. This latest episode was filmed back in September 2024 and I’ve worked on it on and off since then.

If you’re interested in seeing the progress I’ve made on the bus since the last episode you can see an update at the end. It doesn’t look like much but I’m building this thing from a pretty pared back stage and there have been many hurdles but it’s coming along.

I’ve heard that recently Barcelona residents have made quite a stand against the very high levels of tourism in the city but when I was there (September 2024) I didn’t feel it was overrun with tourists and also experienced no hostility from locals, so perhaps this has been overblown by the media, or it’s just gotten a lot worse since.

I loved Barcelona. There’s loads of art galleries and exhibitions, the street art is quirky, subversive and abstract and some of the buildings are among the most awe inspiring and unusual in the world.

Method BCN is a fantastic club and Francesco a great coach, very loved by his students, as you can see in the Meet The Students section. He’s really welcoming and very responsive to messages and his students are also very friendly and fun to roll with, so I highly recommend his gym if you’re visiting the city and have time to train.

Hope you enjoy the show! As always subscribing, likes, comments and shares are very appreciated and helpful for the algorithm.

Since my last post I’ve been promoted to black belt, coached some CLA seminars and camps and I’m about to take over our gym with two of our other coaches, because the gym’s owner Leigh Remedios is off to The Bahamas to open a new gym there for a few years.

So if anyone finds themselves in our beautiful little part of the English countryside (Chippenham, Wiltshire), we remain a BJJ Globetrotter affiliate and welcome you to a week of free training anytime.

Hope you’ve managed to train ok through the heatwaves, if you’ve experienced them.

Thanks for reading 😊

Tammi