Building champions at home: The role of family in Zamzam Al Hammadi's Jiu-Jitsu success

“Building champions at home: The role of family in Zamzam Al Hammadi's Jiu-Jitsu success”

Abu Dhabi: Long before Zamzam Al Hammadi stepped onto a mat, she watched someone else do it. Her mother trained in judo and jiu-jitsu. And in the Al Hammadi home, that was not something that happened somewhere else. It happened in front of the children. “Sport was simply part of our everyday life,” Nada Al Nuaymi said. Zamzam and her siblings, Ghala and Zayed, were curious children who liked to try new things. “They would watch closely, paying attention to the movements and techniques and then…