David Nicholas Marinakis

David Marinakis is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach at Immersion Mixed Martial Arts and holds a third degree black belt. He first came across BJJ in 2003 through early UFC footage and the Gracie in Action tapes, and in 2005 found a training environment he committed to fully. He has represented Australia twice at the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships, in Barcelona and Nottingham, and qualified twice for the World Pro Jiu Jitsu Championships in Abu Dhabi, taking bronze there in 2011. In 2015 he completed a ten-year goal of winning Victorian and Pan Pacific gold at every belt level, repeated the win in 2018, and added silver at the 2019 Asian Open in Tokyo and gold at the 2022 Masters International in California. His lineage runs from Carlos Gracie Junior through Rigan and Jean Jacques Machado, John Will, and David Hart and Cam Rowe.