Take Their Back With This Setup From Lasso Guard
Oct 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
You can love training and competing in the Gi or hate it, but the fact stands: with it, you have much more possibilities for controlling your opponent than without it! The grip options, with...
BJJ White Belts… You Have To Learn This Basic Guillotine Choke Setup
Oct 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The guillotine is a cruel strangulation. It goes fast, from multiple angles, no matter how strong you are. This versatility and speed make the guillotine ideal for sport BJJ players, who occasionally...
Use This Sweep Whenever Your Opponent Defends Against The Omoplata
Oct 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The omoplata is a great move that is often underused or not properly used in BJJ. It’s a submission, a sweep, and a setup for other submissions and sweeps. It is not the easiest move to pull off...
Lessons From GSP: Don’t Wait For An Opportunity To Start Preparing For It
Oct 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Image Credits: Georges St-Pierre Instagram If you ever get an opportunity to learn from someone who is extremely good at what they do, you should take it. And Brian Glick has taken that opportunity,...
BJJ Is An Art Form – Express Yourself & Show Who You Are
Oct 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Image Credits: John Danaher Instagram Too often BJJ students take an approach to training that’s almost “too serious”. Meaning, they try to do things to a “T”; always...
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis Reveals Why He Stopped Training BJJ
Oct 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ lead vocalist, has trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu! Sadly, though, he stopped soon after. And it seems that he had stopped because he didn’t have the...
Reinier de Ridder: “Jiu-Jitsu Is The Boss”
Oct 21, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Image Credits: ONE Championship Reinier de Ridder is the reigning ONE middleweight and light heavyweight world champion. He is also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, who became better known about in...
Chael Sonnen Talks Kade Ruotolo’s Upcoming ONE Match: “It Adds To The Legacy Of His Mentor, Andre Galvao”
Oct 21, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The first-ever ONE Championship Lightweight Submission Grappling world championship title match is taking place soon, with Kade Ruotolo facing the 4x Sambo world champion Uali Kurzhev. Kade is the...
[Watch] Gordon Ryan & Royce Gracie Meet And Roll
Oct 21, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Royce Gracie is a legendary BJJ and MMA figure. A son of Helio Gracie, he is often said to be the most influential figure in Jiu-Jitsu; as he brought awareness to it through famous victories in the...
Kade Ruotolo Talks Upcoming ONE Match: “I Feel Pressure To Hold It Up For BJJ”
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Tomorrow, on October 21, Kade Ruotolo will face Uali Kurzhev for the inaugural ONE Lightweight Submission Grappling world title. The 19-year old Ruotolo has tremendous respect for his opponent, who...
Rener Gracie: “Law Enforcement Officers Are Disastrously Undertrained”
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Law enforcement officers need to train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; both for their own and the public’s safety. However, the vast majority of them lack any sort of meaningful training – and it...
Jeff Glover Shows How To Learn Open Guard With Fun Drills
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Are you looking to improve your Open Guard game? Yes? Fantastic! But yeah, we know how frustrating playing it can get; you seem to have less attacking options than you do when playing from top and...
Khabib Nurmagomedov Reveals That He Doesn’t Miss Fighting: “It Was Never Inside My Heart”
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Image Credits: Khabib Nurmagomedov Instagram Even though he is regarded as one of the absolute best – perhaps the best – to compete in MMA, Khabib Nurmagomedov is resolute in his...
The Underhook Escape Is A Great Side Control Escape Option
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Escaping the sidecontrol is one of the biggest challenges any beginner faces and it’s paramount to mastering bjj or even just saying you have rudimentary skills. Coming out of side control is no...
These Details Make The Knee Cut From Half Guard Impossible
Oct 20, 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...
Rafael Lovato Jr. Demonstrates A Great Loop Choke Setup from Seated Guard
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
One of the most amazing things about training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in a gi is the multitude of choking techniques you can choose from. In other words: you have many more opportunities for choking...
Having Trouble Passing Half Guard? Start Using Submission Threats
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Uhhh, soooo… You’ve been training BJJ for a bit, and there is (still) this one thought that keeps troubling you: position or submission? Should you go for the position first, before you attempt a...
Here’s How To Wristlock Everyone – Use This Concept And It’ll Work Every Time
Oct 20, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
All submissions are great. But some are greater than others – such as the Wrist Lock. For, no matter how you feel on the receiving end of it, there’s still something phenomenally...
Jeff Glover: “Wrestlers Can Be More Dangerous Than BJJ Black Belts”
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Jeff Glover was a recent guest of The Jason Chambers Podcast, where the two discussed many interesting things; one of them being the belt system in Jiu-Jitsu. Chambers mentioned that, even though...
UK-Based BJJ Gym Breaks World Record for Longest Jiu-Jitsu Class Ever
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
“Revolution Martial Arts Academy”, a UK-based Jiu-Jitsu gym (in Dewsbury, Yorkshire), has pulled off an amazing feat… It put together a 24-hour Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class in order to...
“It Was A Marketing Ploy” Buchecha Talks Khabib’s Infamous Sambo & BJJ Statement
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Back in 2013, before his UFC match against Thiago Tavares in Brazil, Khabib Nurmagomedov came to the weigh-ins wearing a shirt with the words: “If Sambo was easy, it would be called...
Wrestler Jumps On Grizzly Bear To Save His Training Partner
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Last Saturday, two college wrestlers have been seriously injured when they were attacked by a grizzly bear (in Cody, Wyoming). As they went antler hunting, the two men encountered the bear at close...
This Weird Back Take Is Just The Technique You Need
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Sure – the back take is not really a submission. But it needs to be mentioned, as the guard gives you an opportunity to transition onto your opponent’s back, which is the most dominant...
Demian Maia Demonstrates A Cool Way To Take The Back (From Butterfly Guard)
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Sure – the back take is not really a submission. But it needs to be mentioned, as the guard gives you an opportunity to transition onto your opponent’s back, which is the most dominant...
