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Author Archive: BJJEE

Tool Singer Maynard James Keenan Talks How He Built His Own Gym And What Attracted Him To BJJ

  Maynard James Keenan is the latest cool guest who Joe Rogan managed to get on the podcast. The podcast starts on a bjj note: “So if you want a place to train, you should just buy a gym....

BJJ Scout Previews What To Expect Of Maia’s Title Shot

    Just yesterday we reported on Demian Maia’s discontent over what might be his shortest camp ever. Still he’s every bit as hopeful that he will manage to secure the title...

Dillon Danis Denies Dying his Hair To Resemble Notorious Star Pupil

    Dillon Danis certainly manages to stir up controversy in any interview he gives. Unbeknownst to us his dyed hair was attributed to making him look like Conor McGregor in the media...

Demian Maia Voices Discontent With “Shortest Camp”

    Demian Maia has always been a champion of the bjj community – even if at times this made him unattractive to the UFC and substantially delayed his title shot. “It’s...

Demian Maia Explains The Importance Of Teaching BJJ as Well As Competing

    Many players nowadays specialize in certain moves and as such there’s a big clash of generations in bjj today. This is one of the possible explanations for why bjj just...

Gordon Ryan Responds To Danis’ Diss: “Pretty sure you’re 0-2 against us p*ssies”

    Dillon Danis interview with Ariel Helwani is the gift that keeps on giving. There Danis explains the penalites he’s received before from Marcelo, his peculiar haircut and why you...

NewYorker Profiles Danaher Death Squad

    Danaher Death Squad is one of the rare teams that’s managed to covet the attention of mainstream media. Previously Tonon was featured in Rolling Stone, even though they...

Charity BJJ Tournament In Toronto Shut Down

    BJJ in Canada has taken another hit. As per Grappling Industries’ head David Aguzzi: “NO FREE BJJ. I have officially been shut down in Ontario. I was going to spend up to...

History Of The Low Single Leg and Overlooking the Legend who Invented it – John Smith

    To all of us who are practicing one form of grappling or another the low single leg is just another tool in the arsenal but not so long ago in the late 1980s this move wasn’t all...

55 Year Old Woman Helps A Law Enforcement Officer Restrain Belligerent Suspect

    We frequently hear about altercations and the reluctance of spectators to engage and help the Police Officers do their job or even other victims. However in Baton Roge, Louisiana an...

Chiropractors Debunked: Practice A total Hoax

    Back pain is a huge issue for a growing number of jiu-jiteiros. Young, old, recreational or competitive more or less we’ve all had back issues at some point. Many of us got...

NBA’s Roy Hibbert Has Become Jiu-Jitsu Blue Belt

  Roy Hibbert towers at staggering 7 feet 2 inches. He is a Jamaican-American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets.   And he’s also a bjj blue belt as of very...

Rafael Lovato Jr Talks Why BJJ Background Makes Better Mature MMA Competitors

    Rafael Lovato Jr is one of the rare non Brazilians to have won the World title at black belt level. Nowadays he’s quite a bit more focussed on his MMA career. He recently had a...

Berkut 6 Releases Full Card: Tanquinho, Miyaos, Leo Vieira and More Greats On board

    Berkut 6 or the ACB Jiu-Jitsu 6 will be taking place July 16th in Moscow. The 2 divisions that will be featured on the card are upto 60kg and upto 65kg. The brackets are set to feature:...

Drysdale Slams Rickson: Berimbolo is no different from many of the techniques he practices, and teaches, himself.

    It seems like in every interview lately Rickson Gracie has been hammering the point that grips slow down the game, advantages are killing competitions and unsavory moves that have...

Woodley Talks Maia Title Fight: I have no problem taking him down on my own terms

    The match that has everyone buzzing is the Demian Maia’s chance at welterweight title. Certainly Tyron Woodley is a very experienced fighter with great wrestling and striking....

Jehovah’s Witnesses Disapprove of Training BJJ, Hope Practitioner Reconsiders “dangerous life choices”

    While many compare aspects of bjj to a religion it’s mostly been positively perceived by the majority of religions thanks to helping practitioners instigate a very healthy...

Rickson Gracie Just Got Promoted To Red Belt

    Rickson Gracie is perhaps the biggest living legend of jiu-jitsu. Rickson was promoted by his older brother Rorion. The promotion was live streamed over Rorion’s facebook: A...

Carlson Gracie Team’s Silveira Tells How He was Forced To Fight Sakuraba Twice In A Night

    Kazushi Sakuraba was recently declared a UFC Hall Of Fame member. But what many of the new generations might not realize is that Sakuraba only fought a single fight in the UFC Octagon....

Gabi Garcia To Face Russian Boxer Over 100kg at Rizin

    Rizin just revealed Gabi Garcia’s next opponent. Unlike the last one, this girl might not be as easy to crack.   #Repost @nobu_sakakibara ・・・...

Mainstream Media Calls BJJ “Aggro Work Out” That’s Taking Over Hollywood

    Jiu–jitsu has been gaining traction in the main stream media yet it’s still often somewhat misinterpreted. Such was the case with the recent feature in hollywood reporter....

Marcelo Garcia’s Way Of Cracking A Tough Closed Guard

    Every practitioner learns in a very short while just how much of a dominant position closed guard can be. So it’s no surprise quite a few people accentuate it – even in...

Weidman Gives 1st Person Account Of What Happened with Cyborg and Magana and Why He Stayed Out

    UFC’s athlete retreat was all over the news when an altercation between the two fighters got physical. Chris Weirdman had front row seats for the entire thing and was a little...

Gabi Garcia Set To Duel MMA Veteran who Made Her Name Defeating 330 lbs Opponent

    Gabi Garcia hasn’t had much luck finding good opponents. Even though Rizin dangled some women who can parallel Garcia’s stature none of them are upto par when it comes to.....