MARGOT CICCARELLI
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion
& High Performance Coach
About Margot
Margot Ciccarelli (Wikipedia) is a professional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete and coach, winning five World Championships in her colored belt career. She has trained martial arts for over 20 years, initially focusing on Kendo and Chinese martial arts (Wushu and Shaolin Kung fu). Born in the UK, she holds dual citizenship with Hong Kong and Italy. She is now a black belt under Murilo Santana of Unity Jiu Jitsu.
Despite discovering Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the relatively late age of 18, Margot has become one of the top grappling prospects of her generation. Her style creates art with movement; aesthetically beautiful as well as effective. She conquered numerous World and European Championships as a colored belt in both gi and nogi, and is continuing that success at the black belt level. She’s known as “Mars” or “Margotchy,” hence the username @thenomadicmars (now @margotciccarelli) . She is supported by brands, including Higher Dose, Vanguard Kimonos, Caponutrition, ADAY, Arm Bar Soap Company.
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“Margot gained notoriety early in her career not only due to her extensive medal tally, but also thanks to
her innovative jiu-jitsu style.”
/ BJJ Heroes /
“One of the most exciting new black belts in the sport, Margot Ciccarelli, continues to impress…in the open weight class, she took out three larger opponents as she went on to conquer another important gold medal.”
/ BJJ Heroes /
MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS (BLACK BELT):
IBJJF World Championship, 3rd place (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
IBJJF European Champion (2024)
ADCC European Trials Champion (2024)
IBJJF Pan Vice-Champion (2021, 2023)
IBJJF Asian Open Champion (2023, weight and absolute)
AJP World Pro Vice-Champion (2021)
IBJJF Charleston Open Champion (2021, weight and absolute)
IBJJF Charlotte Open Champion (2021, weight and absolute)
MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS (COLORED BELTS):
2x IBJJF World Champion (2018, 2019 purple belt)
2x AJP World Pro Champion (2018, 2019 purple belt)
IBJJF World NoGi Champion (2019 brown belt)
IBJJF Pan NoGi Champion (2021 brown belt)
3x IBJJF European Champion (2017, 2018 purple belt, 2020 brown belt)
3x IBJJF Asian Champion (2016, 2017, 2018 purple belt)
IBJJF American National Champion (2020 brown belt)
IBJJF American National NoGi Champion (2020 brown belt)
Learning with Margot
Margot is rare in that she is also well-known and highly respected as a teacher, as well as a fierce competitor. Her instructionals are bestsellers on Jiu Jitsu X and her aim is to provide world class jiu jitsu coaching to anywhere in the world.
She has been invited to teach seminars in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, China, Taiwan and Brazil. She is an experienced teacher not just at teaching on a 1-1 basis and small group basis, but also for groups up to over 50 students from “it’s my first day!” white belts to competitive black belts.
Her approach as a teacher and a competitor combines her experience in martial arts and other movement disciplines (dance, contact improvisation), but also integrates her engineering background into deconstruction and evaluation. Each seminar and class is set up so that students can fully utilize the material across all of their practice, rather than just memorizing a new technique.
Her aim is to help her students accelerate their growth, set up their training for maximum results and take their technique to the next level. Through her unique insight as a world class competitor and cutting edge teacher, she encourages creativity and innovation to build a practice that is stimulating, challenging and healthy.
Margot’s Mentorship Accelerator students range from white belts through to seasoned black belts. They are articulate and thoughtful practitioners, who are looking for a new challenge and a world class lens to help get the most out of their existing jiu jitsu practice. This can range from performing at championship level or falling in love with jiu jitsu all over again by gaining a new perspective on the gentle art. As competitors, her students have medalled at competitions including the IBJJF and UAEJJF World Championships.
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