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Stefan Ydstie

BJJ black belt and former professional MMA fighter who leads advanced classes at Grenland Submission Academy in Porsgrunn.

Biography

Stefan Ydstie is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Bruno Carvalho and Vidar Sandene whose background includes professional mixed martial arts and judo. Grenland Submission Academy describes his experience as fifteen years in MMA and grappling, alongside three years in judo. In 2017, the Kraft Performance Podcast's written introduction to an episode with Ydstie presented him as a professional MMA fighter from Trondheim training at Skien Fighterclubb. A result from that year gives a concrete example of his grappling in MMA: on February 25, at MMAC 2, he defeated Lukasz Swirydowicz with an armbar, a submission attacking the elbow. Sherdog records the finish at 2:54 of the first round. By August 2018, the podcast was introducing him as a former professional MMA fighter preparing for further BJJ competition. Ydstie now leads the advanced classes at Grenland Submission Academy in Porsgrunn, also known as Grenland BJJ & Wrestling.

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