Ken Van Gilbergen

Name: Ken
Last Name: Van Gilbergen
Birth Date: April 5th,1975
Birth Place: Belgium
Weight: 73 kg
Height: 1,77 m
Belt: Brown
Academy: URCA
Training Since: 1998
Skills: If i’m in the mood i’m the best coach ever

: : :Titles Obtained : : :

25/06/05 Lock & Choke 3 – Submission Wrestling – 1st place, -77kg

30/05/04 ADCC Dutch Open 2004 – Submission Wrestling – 2nd place, -77kg

25/04/04 BJJ Belgian Open 2004 – Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – 1st place, -73kg

15/11/03 Yoseikan Grappling – Submission Wrestling – 1st place, advanced

02/11/03 BIG 4 – Brussels International Grappling – Submission Wrestling – 1st place

: : : Interview : : :

Please introduce yourself to the visitors of our website.
Hi, I’m Ken and i started training in martial arts some 15 years ago. I tried everything from karate, kungfu, jeet kune do to capoeira and thaiboxing, but i was most interrested by shootwrestling and brazilian jiu-jitsu. Shooto has a lot of submissions but has a bad positional game, therefor my BJJ is more important. It makes the locks work. I also wrestle with a czechian friend of mine. The combination of positional BJJ, wrestling takedowns and shooto leglocks make me a pretty complete fighter. I started competing grappling in 2002 and have more then a 100 matches since then. And when preparing for a vale-tudo fight, i add some thaiboxing to the mix.

What is your background in the Martial Arts and who are your teachers?
I have a lot of wonderful teachers like M&M, Felipe, Ratinho, Erik, … I also watch a lot of instructional and fight tapes. But i guess most of my feeling for the grappling game i thank to all the people i daily train with. They are there every single day to work on their games and the more they improve the more i do.

What was your biggest international success so far? Please tell us a little about it.
Nothing really special, i will be fighting in the mundials and the masters this summer. I won a lot in all our neighboring countries. I won over Dana Cengiz and Franco Leonardis who are more known in Germany.

How do you prepare for competition?
I’m spending my ‘vacation’ in Brasil this year. I will be training with the guys from Brasa the whole summer. They are the best and maybe they will give me some of their force. A week before the competition i will remove my gi and practice a lot on leg locking.

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