Stuart Mitchell
Stuart Mitchell co-founded Auckland BJJ while building a career in engineering, optimisation and open-source software.
Biography
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Stuart Mitchell Consulting - Brazilian Jiujitsu(opens in a new tab)
His older personal BJJ page describes the original introductory classes as a mixture of drills, technique instruction and free sparring.
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On his personal site he describes winning a brown-belt division at the Santa Catarina State Championships in Brazil and links the semifinal and final recordings.
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About Auckland BJJ — Our Story, Instructors & Locations(opens in a new tab)
The club moved to Rick Littlewood’s Epsom dojo in2012, added Sandringham in2018 and consolidated in Onehunga in August2020.
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His academy profile also identifies him as a third-dan judoka.
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The academy describes his technical teaching as including grip fighting, leg entanglements and the details that make sweeps work.
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He teaches regularly and runs gradings.
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The club credits Mitchell and Morel with promoting Luiz Machado to black belt in2020.
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His academy biography says he was born in New Zealand, with a mother from Levuka in Fiji and a father from Glasgow.
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Stuart Mitchell began BJJ in2003 under Douglas Santos.
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The academy dates his black-belt promotion to December2011.
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He and Serge Morel founded Auckland BJJ in2011 in David Tua’s Onehunga boxing gym.
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Stuart Mitchell Consulting - About Me(opens in a new tab)
His personal biography lists a University of Auckland engineering-science PhD completed in2004.
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He lists work as a lecturer in Auckland’s Department of Engineering Science from2002 to2008 and a research fellowship from2009 to2011.
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His professional work concerns programming and optimisation to help organisations make decisions.
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He identifies himself as maintainer of the open-source optimisation tool PuLP and a contributor to the ClojureScript framework re-frame.
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His CV dates freelance programming and optimisation consulting from2011 and work with Day8Technology from2014.
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Stuart Mitchell, Black Belt 4th Degree | BJJ Beltchecker(opens in a new tab)
The public profile explicitly linked by Auckland BJJ identifies him as Stuart Anthony Mitchell and lists a black belt.
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His public Beltchecker profile currently displays fourth-degree black belt.
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The public About panel gives his birth year as1976.
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His public profile lists AucklandBJJ as his academy and instructor role.
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