Ford Jacobs is a U.S.  Marine Corps Combat Veteran and a 1^st Degree Black Belt under Leonel Marra and has been training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu since 2004.  He got his start in the grappling arts at the age of 6, when he began wrestling.  At the age of 19, he joined the Marines and later earned his Black Belt in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, while he taught hand to hand combat for the Marines.  Ford competed in several MMA and Jiu Jitsu tournaments over his years of martial arts, winning the first All Marine tournament in 2006 on the West Coast at middle weight and later placing 3^rd in the 2014 IBJJF Pan Ams, at Brown Belt, Masters 3, Middleweight division.