Per Eklund is the kind of brown belt who keeps showing up on European result sheets. Silver at the 2017 IBJJF London Fall Open in the Brown Master 1 middleweight bracket sits among a steady run of medals at European and international championships in the brown-belt Master divisions — the part of the IBJJF calendar that quietly separates serious adult competitors from the rest.
He competes out of Team Trondheim BJJ and has done his share of representing the city at Grotta Grappling, the long-running Trondheim superfight event, on top of his IBJJF résumé. The mix tells you what kind of grappler he is: equally at home in a points-based bracket and a one-off no-rules-against-the-clock match.
A background in MMA and Muay Thai feeds the active instructor work he now does in Trondheim — coaching the next layer of competitors as much as adding to his own medal pile.