I think Priit Mihkelson must be one of the most active in the world to travel and coach at the moment. His schedule is just insane.

I've taught (and actually gotten paid for it) in Northern Finland. Just a couple of familiar locations. I think that's pretty good for a brown belt with no name or skill. Would be really to cool to be able to travel to foreign places to teach. Even if it just covered travel expenses. Would not want to do it as often as Priit does. That's just crazy. :D

Aside from Christian, who else does this? Travelling world-wide to train and coach? This is one of my bucket list things to do. So far I've trained & coached in several countries but would like to add more in 2023-4. Where have you been and has the experience been overall positive? Where would you NOT return again?

I'm working on it. I've been taking a leaf from Christian's book and setting up camps in places I want to visit anyway, where a bunch of my friends live, while getting paid to do it (and paying yet more friends to also come and teach, with the entirely unsubtle ulterior motive that I want to hang out with them too). ;) I started running small camps at my home gym in 2019, which has built up nicely. Last year, I ran one in Hamburg, to test if I could get something sorted outside the UK. My eventual goal is organising two or three camps a year in various countries, plus another two or three at my gym in Bristol. :D

The 'knowledge' era of 90's and 00's of seminars is over. You as a teacher need to offer an 'experience package' that actually is valued by the inviting gym for whatever reasons.

I think seminars are a dying breed

Possibly: I have largely switched over to attending (and organising) camps.

We have camp space. We should talk :).

Does Charles Harriott ever post on here? He's worked it out really well too, he and Natasha are constantly travelling the world doing seminars. Their respective Instagram accounts makes their life look pretty awesome (and well deserved, they're good teachers and cool people). :D I should ask him more about it next time I see him. Though I think 'be a really good black belt with great communication skills and a fun style, plus business acumen' are the main requirements for the whole 'travel around teaching BJJ' lifestyle, judging by the people I've seen do this well (e.g., Charles, Christian, Chris P, etc )

I would like to do it but it's just not going to happen without some selling. E.g. I think (in my opinion LOL) adequately that I'm a decent coach. Feedback from camps etc is positive. I have left a note in several places e.g. social media, podcasts etc that 'contact for seminars' because generally I'm open for invitations. However, during 3 years I've been a blackbelt, having Globetrotters videos up etc I've yet to receive A SINGLE invitation in the proper style of 'Hey, what would it take to get you to a seminar in -location- at -time-?' (I'm not counting BJJ-friends and acquintances saying 'maybe I should talk to my coach about getting you' or 'are you travelling X so maybe do a free seminar) ZERO! I'm not bitter about it (maybe just a wee tiny bit ;) ) - it's totally understandable that e.g. Priit, Charles, Chris, Liisi & Vova etc are essentially offering the same (or better) thing while being also deliberately public and consistent about it. So Vince - unless you have some BJJ notoriety OR create it by working systematically, don't get your hopes up for people wanting 'some blackbelt to do a seminar'. It's actually same thing for my own gym - I'm happy to accept visitors AND guest seminars for living costs etc HOWEVER I'm very critical about having expensive paid seminars. E.g. I turned down a Robert Degle seminar. Degle is GREAT. I like him as a teacher. However just pure math for how much it'll cost my gym and how much 'benefit' my gym gets from him teaching 2x1.5 hours (compared to me and other coaches trying to teach a trash version of 'his stuff' based on his Instagram) did not work out in the favor of doing the seminar. Christian has talked about it in nice terms. The 'knowledge' era of 90's and 00's of seminars is over. You as a teacher need to offer an 'experience package' that actually is valued by the inviting gym for whatever reasons. I'd love to have you in my gym Vince :) If you visit Estonia I'd me most happy to cover some costs of visiting my town, show you around, exchange experience, stories and knowledge etc. However if you'd also say that e.g. on top of some costs you'd want 1000 Euros of pocket money (which, considering your or anyones time is not a lot AT ALL for e.g. 2x2 hour classes) I would likely turn it down. And I understand people view myself in a similar way.

Does Charles Harriott ever post on here? He's worked it out really well too, he and Natasha are constantly travelling the world doing seminars. Their respective Instagram accounts makes their life look pretty awesome (and well deserved, they're good teachers and cool people).

I like Charles and Natasha a lot. I had the chance to hang out with them a bit at the Globetrotters Arizona camp this past year, but it seems like they're sticking to one area for now (Florida). I think the seminar circuit is tough.