Georg Solvang trains alongside Martin Scherer under Mattias Sandström at Gracie Barra Umeå, holding brown belt and working as a BJJ instructor at Polarsirkelen Kampsport in Mo i Rana. His mat history pairs fourteen years of BJJ with a parallel background in boxing and jigo ryu jiujitsu, a mix that shows up in how he teaches stand-up transitions and clinch work.
The Polarsirkelen room is one of only a handful of serious BJJ programmes in Nordland county. Solvang and Scherer together form the core instructor pair behind a brown-belt-led curriculum at Norway's northernmost edge of the sport — and the academy's ability to keep students coming back through the dark months depends on the work they do at the front of the class.
In a country where good BJJ instruction has historically clustered far to the south, his presence is one of the things that makes a different geography possible.