Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Kit Dale was born on January 24, 1986, in Melbourne, Australia, growing up in the area’s eastern suburbs.
During his formative years Dale practiced a number of athletic activities, from karate to inline hockey, as well as Australian football (Aussie rules), a sport he competed in extensively prior to jiu-jitsu.
Australian rules football is widely recognized as one of the most physical sports in the world, generally played by large individuals. Although a very athletic competitor himself, Kit lacked the physicality of some of the other players, a handicap Dale sought to overcome by learning a few grappling tricks, starting his jiu-jitsu training in 2008 with Robert Parmakovski – a man who would, years later, become Kit’s own student.
BJJ came natural to Dale, who soon started allocating more of his time to grappling and less to Aussie rules football. While climbing the ranks of jiu-jitsu Dale trained with Bernie Jenkins (up to blue belt) and Peter De Been (up to brown belt), while also doing plenty of training and experimentation on his own or with friends/students.
Once the highly decorated grappler, Yuri Simões moved to Australia, Kit started training with the Brazilian. The two established a strong relationship as friends and training partners, and it was Yuri who promoted Dale to black belt on June, 2013. At the time of the ceremony, Dale had just under 5 years of training, this being one of the fastest rises to the rank recorded by then.
Dale would later move to California, USA, one of jiu-jitsu’s epicenters in order to improve his grappling skills while also attempting further his acting career.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
His early interests that led him to BJJ
His rapid success in the world of BJ
Challenging the status quo in BJJ. Live training as opposed to drilling.
Kit’s method of “Specific Training”
Improvement through active problem-solving
His personal keys to a rewarding and happy life
His recent interest in a career as an actor
His relationship to problem-solving and the Socratic Method
How he applies his methodology of BJJ mastery to the rest of his life.
Kit's Website:
kitdaletraining.com
Artist Decoded Patreon:
patreon.com/artistdecoded
Originally Posted on 3.5.2020
Kit Dale was born on January 24, 1986, in Melbourne, Australia, growing up in the area’s eastern suburbs.
During his formative years Dale practiced a number of athletic activities, from karate to inline hockey, as well as Australian football (Aussie rules), a sport he competed in extensively prior to jiu-jitsu.
Australian rules football is widely recognized as one of the most physical sports in the world, generally played by large individuals. Although a very athletic competitor himself, Kit lacked the physicality of some of the other players, a handicap Dale sought to overcome by learning a few grappling tricks, starting his jiu-jitsu training in 2008 with Robert Parmakovski – a man who would, years later, become Kit’s own student.
BJJ came natural to Dale, who soon started allocating more of his time to grappling and less to Aussie rules football. While climbing the ranks of jiu-jitsu Dale trained with Bernie Jenkins (up to blue belt) and Peter De Been (up to brown belt), while also doing plenty of training and experimentation on his own or with friends/students.
Once the highly decorated grappler, Yuri Simões moved to Australia, Kit started training with the Brazilian. The two established a strong relationship as friends and training partners, and it was Yuri who promoted Dale to black belt on June, 2013. At the time of the ceremony, Dale had just under 5 years of training, this being one of the fastest rises to the rank recorded by then.
Dale would later move to California, USA, one of jiu-jitsu’s epicenters in order to improve his grappling skills while also attempting further his acting career.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
His early interests that led him to BJJ
His rapid success in the world of BJ
Challenging the status quo in BJJ. Live training as opposed to drilling.
Kit’s method of “Specific Training”
Improvement through active problem-solving
His personal keys to a rewarding and happy life
His recent interest in a career as an actor
His relationship to problem-solving and the Socratic Method
How he applies his methodology of BJJ mastery to the rest of his life.
Kit's Website:
kitdaletraining.com
Artist Decoded Patreon:
patreon.com/artistdecoded
Originally Posted on 3.5.2020
