Lubomir Repasky
Lubomir Repasky brought his London training to Slovakia, built a club with room for extra practice and developed adults and children as a coach.
Biography
Sources for this profile
BJJ Eastern Europe, Lubomir Repasky interview, November 15, 2012(opens in a new tab)
Repasky is a Slovak BJJ instructor who returned from London to teach in Slovakia.
Where in the source: Answer1: Slovakia.
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Before BJJ he had tried Greco-Roman wrestling, karate, muay Thai and capoeira. Living in London, difficulty finding a nearby muay Thai club led him to Japanese ju-jitsu instead.
Where in the source: Answer2: London.
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Through Japanese ju-jitsu instructor Nick Brooks he discovered a Wednesday grappling class. Repasky recalled practising with Brooks and Daniel Strauss before and during classes as their interest shifted towards BJJ.
Where in the source: Answer2: wednesday.
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Brooks’s small training group included Repasky, Strauss and Chris Hearn as Mill Hill gradually developed into a BJJ academy.
Where in the source: Answer2: Chris Hearn.
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Work shifts kept Repasky from attending every Mill Hill session. On Brooks’s advice he trained at Roger Gracie’s academy, travelling by scooter; after about eighteen months he returned to the friends and teacher he missed at Mill Hill.
Where in the source: Answer2: scooter.
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He began teaching BJJ in Slovakia on May 1, 2009, moving between a wrestling hall and muay Thai gyms including Bratislavska boxerna and Hanuman.
Where in the source: Answer3: may 1st 2009.
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Using other people’s venues restricted when his group could train. He wanted its own space so students could arrive early, stay for extra rounds or practise outside regular class hours; a week of refurbishment gave them that independent hall.
Where in the source: Answer3: independence.
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Repasky and Tibor Repta agreed to unite their groups after Repta visited his gym. Repasky recalled Repta preferring more time training and seeing value in one larger club rather than two small ones.
Where in the source: Answer6: Tibor Repta.
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By November 2012 he estimated the community around the club at fifty to sixty people, with forty to fifty training regularly.
Where in the source: Answer6: regularly.
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Roger Gracie’s influence showed in Repasky’s preference for dependable basics: he described building position gradually through tightness and pressure rather than risking a position in competition.
Where in the source: Answer5: basics.
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His preferred tools included the knee-slide pass, pressure from standing, kimuras from different positions and guillotines; he also enjoyed the cartwheel pass.
Where in the source: Answer7: kimura.
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In 2012 he hoped to enter MMA to introduce more Slovaks to BJJ’s ground game and attract students. He also described sponsorship as a condition for taking his team to the Europeans.
Where in the source: Answer8: sponsor.
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BJJ Eastern Europe, Nicholas Brooks interview, September 19, 2012(opens in a new tab)
Brooks identified Repasky as his brown-belt student running BJJ Slovakia in Bratislava in September 2012, praising his commitment and the technical standard of his students.
Where in the source: Answer about Slovakia: Lubomir Repasky.
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BJJ Slovakia, About us(opens in a new tab)
BJJ Slovakia names Repasky as its founder and dates the club’s establishment to 2010, tracing his training to Brooks at Mill Hill and Roger Gracie’s London academy.
Where in the source: About BJJ Slovakia: founded in 2010.
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The club says it has developed more than ten black belts while keeping room for hobby practitioners as well as competitors, children and adults.
Where in the source: About BJJ Slovakia, latter paragraphs: more than 10.
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IBJJF, European Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2009, official results(opens in a new tab)
Repasky won bronze in adult male blue-belt lightweight at the 2009 IBJJF Europeans, representing Roger Gracie Academy.
Where in the source: Adult / Blue / Male / Light, full podium.
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Netky, Nicholas Brooks’s Bratislava seminar, July 28, 2015(opens in a new tab)
A July 2015 report documents Brooks visiting BJJ Slovakia for two Friday training sessions and a Saturday seminar, covering attacks, positional improvement and finishes; two club members received blue belts afterwards.
Where in the source: Article body: V piatok.
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BJJ Slovakia, black-belt roster(opens in a new tab)
BJJ Slovakia’s black-belt roster records Repasky’s black-belt year as 2015.
Where in the source: Naše čierne opasky, Repasky: 2015.
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Netky, Pitbull West Coast IV announcement, October 20, 2016(opens in a new tab)
The October 2016 Pitbull West Coast IV announcement identifies Repasky as a black belt under Nick Brooks and names both men as guarantors of the BJJ Slovakia competition.
Where in the source: Opening paragraphs: pod Nickom Brooksom.
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BJJ Slovakia, adult and children’s coaches(opens in a new tab)
The club’s current instructor page lists Repasky as a third-degree black belt.
Where in the source: Headcoach entry: BLACK 3RD DEGREE.
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Repasky is BJJ Slovakia’s head coach for both adults and children.
Where in the source: Adult Coaches and Kids Coaches: Headcoach.
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Reflecting on BJJ, Repasky says it gave his life direction and a family. He describes helping children, including his own, as the part he enjoys most and expresses lasting gratitude to Brooks.
Where in the source: Repasky’s statement: helping children.
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Its current coaching team includes Peter Križanovič, listed as a 2024 black belt, whose account describes entering BJJ Slovakia as a child and carrying its lessons in discipline and respect into adult life.
Where in the source: Peter Križanovič entry: as a child.
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Bratislavské noviny, children’s BJJ in Bratislava, December 22, 2018(opens in a new tab)
In December 2018, Repasky and Pavol Ďurčo were reported to have spent about three and a half years teaching the club’s children’s group, then around thirty children aged five to fourteen.
Where in the source: Children’s group paragraph: asi 30.
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Twelve of their students won eleven medals at Kids Storm 6 in Martin: five gold, four silver and two bronze. Four newcomers were among the travelling group.
Where in the source: Kids Storm 6 paragraph: Dvanásť.
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The children’s programme introduced newcomers through shorter sessions and technical practice, with more experienced children letting beginners practise on them. Girls and boys trained together.
Where in the source: Newcomer paragraph: kratšie tréningy.
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Parent Andrej Lehocký valued the coaching’s emphasis on not misusing techniques at school. Ďurčo likewise described teaching children that holds and joint locks were not for trying on classmates.
Where in the source: Parent/co-coach responses: škole.
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Lehocký said his son had become more confident and was learning to deal with the stress before competition. Ďurčo described families treating tournament trips as shared outings.
Where in the source: Closing parent answer: stres.
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Netky, BJJ Slovakia at the Europeans, January 30, 2017(opens in a new tab)
After winning his white-belt Master 2 European title in 2017, Pavol Ďurčo publicly thanked Repasky and Róbert Antony for their time training with him, and Brooks for developing his coach.
Where in the source: Ďurčo’s thanks: Tréner Ľubomír.
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