Christopher Heum has been on combat-sport mats since 2001, training across Thai boxing, BJJ and MMA in roughly equal measure. He started his own Larvik team in 2014 and, on 3 April 2017, opened the doors of Larvik Combat Center — the venue around which most of the area's grappling and striking activity now sits.
A purple belt under Maicon Gomes at Roger Gracie Academy Norway, he carries one of the stronger lineages in Norwegian BJJ into a regional gym, with his early training in Team Pammachon under Jan Tore Stange and William Forsh feeding the broader curriculum. He also operates Heum Kampsport alongside the Combat Center.
Twenty-plus years of coaching add up to something quieter than a competition résumé: an entire local scene that exists because somebody built and kept open the room it trains in. In Larvik, that somebody is Heum.