Inside the Park’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy

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Tucked inside the Trinity Centre is one of the Park’s most unexpected high-performance environments: a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy run by Leo Gamarra, a 5th degree black-belt coach from Rio de Janeiro, the birthplace of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Dr Cristina Ariani, a Cambridge-trained geneticist. For Leo, Jiu-Jitsu started in 1993 as self-defence. It quickly became a lifelong discipline. “I went in to […]

Run with Billy in aid of Cancer Research

Billy Boyle, founder and CEO of Owlstone Medical, is turning endurance into action and inviting others to join him and his sons, Isaac and Oscar, on 20 June in a cancer charity challenge that will see them run four marathons in 24 hours. The family team is raising funds for Cancer Research UK in memory of their […]