Bruno Bastos Shows How To End Up On Top From Half Butterfly Guard
Jul 23, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The Half Butterfly is a fantastic guard, particularly well-suited for various Leg Lock entries – depending on your training partner’s reaction. Most of us get caught up using our half...
Bruno Bastos Has a Slick Half Guard To Side Control Transition
Jun 20, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Half guard is a fundamental position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, providing control over an opponent from the bottom and creating opportunities for sweeps and submissions. When an opponent passes one leg...
Sneaky Knee Shield to Cross Choke Setup by Bruno Bastos
Jun 20, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Do you find yourself in the Knee Shield position often? And do you, on top of that, long for submission setups that aren’t lengthy and complicated… That could allow you to choke out your...
Bruno Bastos Explains Extremely Important Judo Principles For BJJ Athletes
Jun 07, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Takedowns are the mark of all grappling sports (Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling, Sambo etc). They all rely on taking the fight to the ground, regardless of what you do afterwards. Takedowns can be a tough...
Nova Uniao black belt Bruno Bastos training in Bulgaria (23 sept-6 oct) with the UFC fighter Stanislav Nedkov
Sep 25, 2012BJJEE
Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Burno Bastos will arrive in Bulgaria at the end of september. He will be guest-instructor in club Real Pain from 23th September to 7th October. Alongside with the UFC fighter,...
Gilbert Burns & Bruno Frazatto Are Out Of ADCC
Sep 19, 2017BJJEE
It looks like with every passing day the ADCC competitor list gets thinner. Latest to succumb to injuries are Gilbert Durinho Burns and Bruno Frazatto. Frazatto wrote on instagram: I...
How to Get Ridiculously Strong for Jiu-Jitsu without Lifting Weights
Jan 02, 2025BJJEE
Building Strength for BJJ Without Weights: Proven Strategies and Examples Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art that heavily emphasizes technique and functional strength over sheer muscle mass. For...
“Strength Doesn’t Matter”: BJJ & Judo’s Biggest Hypocrisy
Aug 08, 2024BJJEE
If Jiu Jitsu was a test of strength, we could just have a set of weights at the door – and a contest as you come in to see who is strongest, and then go home having never touched the mats. Now...
AJP Weekend Recap: Colombia, Portugal, Bulgaria, & Cyprus Join AJP And Host Explosive Tournaments
May 29, 2024BJJEE1 Admin
After an entire month of high-level competitions, the last weekend of May kept the ball rolling as AJP brought even more tournaments to four countries around the world! This time around, fight fans...
Weekend Recap: AJP Promotes Seven Tournaments Around The World
May 22, 2024BJJEE1 Admin
In a stellar weekend of competition, the AJP has taken another bold step toward its mission of bringing competitive Jiu-Jitsu to the whole world! While the ADXC 4 took over the French capital on May...
Weekend Recap: AJP Dials Up The Action With Six Tournaments Around The World
Mar 26, 2024BJJEE1 Admin
Bringing another batch of stellar tournaments, the AJP has once again promoted an action-packed weekend, giving athletes from all over the world the chance to compete in an internationally recognized...
16 Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners That Were Promoted Straight to Black Belt
Feb 07, 2024BJJEE
The BJJ black belt is a very prized possession in the martial arts community. It is arguably the most difficult belt to achieve in martial arts. The road to a black belt is usually a long and...
ADXC 2: Yara Kakish & Emily Ferreira Headline A Jiu-Jitsu Bout In The Prelims
Jan 15, 2024BJJEE1 Admin
With most of the duels for its second edition already revealed, the Abu Dhabi Extreme Championship (ADXC) still has a few aces up its sleeve, and now the time has come to reveal yet another...
You Have To Try This Technique From Half Butterfly Guard
Jul 23, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The Half Butterfly is a fantastic guard, particularly well-suited for various Leg Lock entries – depending on your training partner’s reaction. Most of us get caught up using our half guard to...
This Collar & Sleeve Sweep Works Great From Half Guard
Jul 22, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Half guard is a fundamental position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, providing control over an opponent from the bottom and creating opportunities for sweeps and submissions. When an opponent passes one leg...
Teenage BJJ Prodigy Helena Crevar Booked For UFC Fight Pass Invitational 4
Jun 14, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Helena Crevar, teenage Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu prodigy, has been booked to compete at UFC Fight Pass Invitational 4! The match will take place on June 29: View this post on Instagram A post...
How To Pass Half Guard? Here’s A Super-Efficient Technique
Nov 16, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Many BJJ practitioners have made a career from forcing an under hook half guard and sweeping or taking the back. This is a common method of playing guard used by a lot of elite level grapplers such...
This Triangle Choke Setup from Scissor Sweep is Too Simple To Use
Feb 23, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The simplest things in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are, often, the most efficient ones at the same time. You don’t have to “Berimbolo everything”; just sticking to simple, 1-2-3 setups,...
Pans 2021 Masters: Xande Ribeiro, Igor Gracie, & Others Take The Gold
Sep 07, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
The IBJJF Pans 2021 finished on September 5, thus bringing to an end one of the most important tournaments in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Through it, the masters division has displayed some extremely...
400 lbs White Belt Rolling with Japanese Female Purple Belt
Mar 28, 2021BJJEE
Jiu-Jitsu is truly known for being the martial that favorizes the smaller, weaker practitioner against the bigger one… We have seen so many times the David vs Goliath match ups. Examples that come...
Caio Terra On Being Weak in Lifting Weights But Having ‘Mat Strength’ in BJJ
Oct 11, 2020BJJEE
If Jiu Jitsu was a test of strength, we could just have a set of weights at the door – and a contest as you come in to see who is strongest, and then go home having never touched the mats. Now...
The Year of Roberto ‘Cyborg’: How The 40 yr Old is Winning Everything This Year
Sep 19, 2020BJJEE
Not many professional athletes get to do a winning streak in the sport of BJJ. The brutal competition and the fact that in most major tournaments you get to face 4 or 5 guys that are at the top of...
127 lbs Caio Terra Proves That Technique Conquers Size In Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu
Aug 25, 2020BJJEE
For smaller grapplers out there in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world, things can be a little tricky when you enter competitions and step onto the mat to see that your opponent is a hulking figure, almost...
65 kg Japanese Judo Champ Takes on 180kg BJJ White Belt with 1,5 Years Experience
Aug 02, 2020BJJEE
Jiu-Jitsu is truly known for being the martial that favorizes the smaller, weaker practitioner against the bigger one… We have seen so many times the David vs Goliath match ups. Examples that come...
