Early life and education
Lachlan Giles was born on 17 June 1986, in Victoria, Australia. [1] [2]
Growing up he was a huge fan of Jet Li's martial arts movies and trained in Kung Fu initially. [1] [2] [3] One year into his training he saw a tape of UFC 1 which was won by Royce Gracie. [1] [2] [4] After watching the event, he was convinced that BJJ was the best form of self defense and shortly afterwards joined a BJJ academy to focus on it. [1] [2] [4]
Giles’ first BJJ instructor was Tyrone Crosse who trained Giles from white to purple belt. [1] [2] [3] However Giles suffered from a severe knee injury and was forced to stop his training for a year. [1] [2] [3] When he returned, the academy had a new coach, John Simon. [1] [2] Simon promoted Giles to brown belt and in 2012 promoted him to black belt. [1] [2] [3]
Giles attended La Trobe University where he earned a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 2008 and a PhD in Physiotherapy in 2016. [1] [3] [4] [5]
Grappling career
In 2015, Giles competing at Eddie Bravo Invitational 5 where he came third place after defeating Nathan Orchard and Rani Yahya before losing to Garry Tonon by Armbar. [1] [4] [6]
In 2017, Giles competed at the World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship where he came third place after being defeated by AJ Agazarm by points in the semi-finals. [1] [7]
In the 2019 ADCC World Championship, Giles defeated Kaynan Duarte and Patrick Gaudio before being submitted by Gordon Ryan. [1] [8] [9] Giles defeated Mahamed Aly by leglock to earn a bronze medal in the absolute category. [1] [8] [9] Giles' achievement was considered notable as he was much smaller than his opponents who came mainly from the Heavyweight divisions and outweighed him by around 20 kg. [1] [8] [9]
In 2020, Giles made a post on Instagram stating those who have won medals while using PEDs should relinquish those titles. [10] Gordon Ryan made a response accusing Giles of using PEDs. [10] After some back and forth, Giles challenged Ryan that he would bet $500,000 of his own money against just $5,000 of Ryan's that he would pass a drug test right now. [10] Ryan did not respond to the challenge. [10]
Giles teaches BJJ as well. [1] He was the coach of fellow Australian grappler, Craig Jones whom he awarded a black belt in 2016. [1] [4] He will now serve as the head coach for Team Australasia at the Craig Jones Invitational 2 in 2025. [11]
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