Adele Fornarino shares her thoughts on taking part in the first ever female ADCC superfight in 2026!

Adele Fornarino discusses the difference in her preparation and mindset for ADCC 2024, compared to ADCC 2022.

ADCC 2024 double champion Adele Fornarino explains the meaning behind ‘Daddy mentality’ and her nickname’s origins!

Adele Fornarino is the ADCC 2024 double champion, winning both the under 55kg and absolute divisions at the event. She’s the first Australian ADCC world champion and the first female absolute champion in 19 years. Adele is also the reigning Who’s Number One Strawweight world champion and has won several major IBJJF events. Jake O’Driscoll is her coach, and the head coach of Essence Jiu-Jitsu.

Jits Magazine spoke to Adele and Jake about their backgrounds in the sport, and their experiences of the Australian Jiu-Jitsu scene. We also discussed the coach and athlete relationship, along with each of their experiences training and coaching at ATOS. Adele broke down some of her historic run at ADCC 2024 and her plans for the future, including the first ever female ADCC superfight and a rematch with Ffion Davies.

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0:00 Introduction
0:22 Jake’s introduction to Jiu-Jitsu
1:32 Adele’s introduction to Jiu-Jitsu
2:24 Adele meeting Jake
4:00 The relationship with ATOS
10:11 Improving after ADCC 2022
12:26 Gi competition & making a return
15:18 First female ADCC Superfight Championship
16:06 Jake’s superfights in 2025
18:53 The Australian Jiu-Jitsu scene
21:23 Ffion Davies rematch
22:54 Mayssa Bastos at ADCC 2024
28:38 Brianna Ste-Marie at ADCC 2024
32:48 ADCC 2024 overall
35:14 Absolute division
36:13 Plans for the future
37:43 Becoming Who’s Number One champion
39:09 Jake sailing off into the sunset
43:39 Professionalism in Jiu-Jitsu
49:20 The origin of Daddy mentality
52:33 Thanks & signing off

We spoke to Danielle Kelly about her upcoming rematch with Mayssa Bastos at ONE Fight Night 26 and she broke down how she’s going to approach the match!

Danielle Kelly has one rematch in mind, as Tammi Musumeci is still the only woman to have submitted her in competition!

Danielle Kelly is the first ever female ONE Championship submission grappling world champion and a BJJ black belt under Karel ‘Silver Fox’ Pavec. She lost her atomweight world title to Mayssa Bastos and is currently preparing to regain that belt in a rematch against her at ONE Fight Night 26.

Jits Magazine spoke to Danielle about her journey to becoming a ONE Championship world champion and how it felt to make history, along with her upcoming rematch with Mayssa Bastos and her goals for the future beyond that.

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0:00 Introduction
0:25 Beginning Jiu-Jitsu & first competition
1:48 Becoming the first female ONE grappling champion
3:06 Would Danielle do ADCC Trials again?
3:42 Matches with Jessa Khan
5:31 Changes for Mayssa Bastos rematch
7:57 Any other rematches in the future?
9:15 Tammi Musumeci
10:06 MMA & winning titles in other weight classes
11:44 Gi events in 2025 & teaching with Roger Gracie
13:58 Thanks & signing off

This match featuring Bobbi Figueroa and Aurelia Delrossi is from Hammer Challenge Series 14 on October 28th, 2023.

Hammer Challenge Series 16 is the next event by the promotion and it’s scheduled for March 16th, 2024. Click here to watch the live event: https://tickets.avp.live/events/hcs16

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This match featuring Danielle Tighe and Dominika Krzeslak is from Enyo Grappling 1 on August 20th, 2022.

Enyo Grappling 3 is the next event by the promotion and it’s scheduled for August 12th, 2023. Click here to watch the event: https://events.inplayer.com/enyo-grappling

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Training jiu-jitsu with the opposite sex can sometimes be stressful for some people. We discuss some of the common problems that arise in the bjj training room and how to handle them. Mandy discusses it from a female’s perspective and I give my perspective from an instructor’s point of view as well as from a male perspective.

We would love to hear your thoughts on what situations or concerns need to be addressed in jiu-jitsu academies regarding these issues.

Have you ever dealt with someone who was overly aggressive towards women in BJJ? If so, how did you deal with it?

Recently I received a question from a BJJ assistant coach who is dealing with someone who is hyper aggressive with the female training partners in their Brazilian Jiu-jitsu gym.

He says that the pattern has been created where he will get submitted by a woman and then becomes hyper aggressive and has injured or negatively affected all of the female training partners in the gym.

He says his instinct is to motion to the head coach to kick the guy out. But sends me the question to get my thoughts on the matter.

In this video I discuss how I would certainly not give the guy the boot, at least not yet.

Unfortunately, I’ve dealt with this sort of situation and have been a bit of a hyper aggressive person in BJJ myself.

And in some cases people are completely ignorant to their misgivings and rough, unnecessary and reckless aggression.

I also share how I personally dealt with a similar situation that happened in my gym years ago.

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