Technical depth within the Onyx coaching team
Professor Bradman Cuffy brings Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu experience and competitor development to Onyx. His role demonstrates the depth of the academy’s coaching team: striking, wrestling and ground work can be understood by coaches who have spent time testing their own specialist disciplines.
The ZR Team Northampton coaching biography establishes his black-belt status and lineage under Zé Radiola. His work with ZR Team Northampton and ZR Team Milton Keynes is an important part of that background. The affiliation connects local teaching with a wider technical tradition while the day-to-day work remains focused on the student in front of him.
A competition record with clear categories
Official IBJJF results appear under the name Edward Bradman Cuffy. At the 2018 British National Championship, he won Master 3 Brown Belt Heavy and took silver in the Master 3 Brown Belt Open Class. These were brown-belt results, rather than black-belt titles.
The 2022 London Fall International Open results record two black-belt gold medals: Master 4 Super Heavy and Master 4 Open Class, representing ZR Team Association. The distinction between year, belt and age category gives prospective students an accurate view of his competitive progression.
Competition experience is useful because it exposes the difference between knowing a movement and making it work when another athlete resists. Grips change, positions become less tidy and the timing of a decision matters. Bradman’s coaching places those problems within a technical framework rather than treating a technique as an isolated sequence.
Developing students as well as competing
The academy’s biography records his work with students from white belt through brown belt who have achieved European titles and podium finishes. That is a coaching story alongside his own results: helping another person prepare, identify useful details and bring their skills together under pressure.
For beginners, his approach starts with understanding the position. Where is your weight? What is controlling you? Which movement creates space? A clear answer makes a technique easier to remember and gives the student something to return to when a first attempt fails.
For experienced students, the questions become more specific. An entry needs a response when the opponent changes a grip. Control needs to survive movement. An escape should lead to a position from which the athlete can continue. Technical precision and decision-making belong together.
Find the right training route
Onyx’s Submission Grappling programme sits within the academy’s broader combat-sports offering. For the dedicated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu programme, gi and no-gi information and wider ZR Team background, visit ZR Team Northampton.
Our coaching team brings different specialist backgrounds into the same academy environment. You can ask the team about a suitable session before your first visit.
Profile reviewed by Onyx Combat Academy · 6 October 2026. Competition records retain their original division and event dates.