Bandera local Jamie Graham placed first in the female master level purple belt division at the 2020 International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) World Master Jiu-Jitsu Championship, which was held Dec. 20 at the Silver Spurs Arena in Florida. Graham said she is ranked sixth in the world for her division, and her goal for 2021 is to be ranked first. In 2015, Graham’s husband introduced her to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a modern martial arts discipline with ancient roots. Jiu-Jitsu is a predominantly ground-based martial art, using the principles of leverage, angles, pressure and timing, as well as knowledge of the human anato my,