Armin Douzali has been part of Bergen Grappling since 2018 and competes for Team Carvalho on the international circuit — a dual identity that has lifted his profile beyond the west-coast Bergen scene. At purple belt he has consistently turned up on the podium in one of the IBJJF's most physically punishing brackets.
His IBJJF Pan No-Gi 2024 and 2025 results read identically: 3rd place, Adult Male Purple Super-Heavy at 215 lb / 97.5 kg. Back-to-back bronze medals at that weight, against a deep international field, are not a fluke — they are how a regional Norwegian purple belt makes himself a known quantity in California.
At Bergen Grappling he teaches the No-Gi side of the curriculum, which means the medal record now feeds directly back into the academy: the things that work for him at the Pans become the things the room drills on a Tuesday night in Bergen.