One of the niftiest ideas of 2009 was the “Glover’s Travels” series, in which the Ricardo Franjinha black belt fulfills many a practitioner’s : to train with the aces of the greatest Jiu-Jitsu academies out there.
Well thought out starting with the name – a parody of Jonathan Swift’s classic novel, “Gulliver’s Travels” – the production presents a truly limber Jeff Glover (Paragon/Alliance), as much as a presenter as in the gi.
It’s an opportunity to see the up close and personal a dynamo who likes Jiu-Jitsu so much he even speaks Portuguese, and, to boot, you get to see a submission taught by Márcio Feitosa with Jeff, in the episode shot at Gracie Barra.
Glover, in the first episode, showed featured his academy, Paragon of Ventura, and then visited the installations of Robert Drysdale in Las Vegas, among others.