Aleksander Millang has spent thirteen years at Polarsirkelen Kampsport in Mo i Rana, working his way up to brown belt and to one of the three head-instructor positions at the club. Polarsirkelen is one of the few serious year-round BJJ programmes in Nordland, sitting on the Arctic Circle itself.
His mark is regional: he took the club to eleven medals at the first North-Norwegian grappling tournament, a result that reflects both the depth of the room he has helped build and the dearth of competition outside it. For students in Helgeland looking for organised jiu-jitsu, the Mo i Rana mat is often the only option within a meaningful drive.
Millang is one of the practitioners holding the upper edge of the Norwegian BJJ map together, where the country is at its thinnest.