ALKETBI Fasial

General
PIONEER
He began practising ju-jitsu in the late 1990s when Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the son of the founder of the United Arab Emirates, introduced the sport to the country. "We all trained together in Abu Dhabi. He [Sheikh Tahnoon] wanted to point the sport in the right direction. He introduced martial arts to us. Since then, we started to train in wrestling and ju-jitsu, but ju-jitsu in particular. In 2009, we started competing at international level. We wanted to find our level, to see if we could compete and represent the UAE at the highest level. We had the opportunity and had some great success. We raised the UAE flag and showed we were ready. We wanted to impress everyone on a local level because people didn't know what ju-jitsu was in the Emirates. Nobody thought we were capable of winning. It was a shock for everyone. Nobody knew we started it in 1998." (sport360, 02 Apr 2020; bjjheroes, 2019)

FURTHER STUDIES
He has earned a master's degree in leadership science and development. (Twitter profile, 25 Apr 2022)

He won two titles at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, AL, United States of America, to take his tally to three gold medals, more than any other ju-jitsu athlete in the ne-waza system at the World Games. He also claimed silver at the 2017 edition of the tournament in Wroclaw, Poland, to take his overall medal count to four, more than any other ne-waza competitor at the World Games. (thenationalnews, 16 Jul 2022; SportsDeskOnline, 24 Mar 2023)