Knut Roald Wake has been teaching at Bergen Grappling since 2008, a span long enough that the academy's identity is partly built around what he does in class. His technical signature is the collar-and-sleeve game — a precise, posture-driven open guard that he has taught internationally through repeated invitations to the Artemis BJJ Camp.
The Artemis seminars give a sense of his reach: foreign coaches and students travelling to Bergen each year for week-long camps where his collar-and-sleeve sessions are a regular fixture. For a club in a city the size of Bergen to be on that map at all says something about the depth of his teaching.
He runs all of this alongside a career as an electrical power engineer — another Norwegian black belt whose mat life is supported by a serious professional life off it.