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Getting to grips with life

Sarah Buchecker

SHANTELLE Thompson’s return to international competition might not have given her the result she wanted, but it gave her the lessons she needed. Thompson is a proud Barkindji and Ngyampaa woman, three-time jiu-jitsu world champion, community leader and Order of Australia recipient. She began Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2011 as a form of physical therapy after […]

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