John Will

John Will is an Australian martial artist born on 16 April 1957. He won the Best Exponent Award at the first World Silat Championships in Jakarta in 1981, and in 1998 he completed his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Rigan Machado and Jean Jacques Machado, which made him one of the first twelve foreign nationals to earn that rank. His wider background includes freestyle wrestling, Goju Kai karate and taekwondo, and he has trained in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, the United States and Brazil. He became national director of Machado Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Australia, the organisation known as BJJ Australasia, and teaches at his REDCAT Academy in Geelong. In September 2025 he was awarded a seventh degree coral belt, the first Australian to reach that rank.