BJJ Black Belt Champ Returns To Jiu-Jitsu After Near Fatal Motorcycle Accident
Jul 05, 2018BJJEE
Raphael Forti is a Brazilian BJJ champion who in 2017 had the misfortune of being in a motorcycle accident that made him wheelchair bound. This life changing disaster didn’t discourage the...
British Cop With World’s Worst Ever Single Leg Takedown Attempt
Jul 04, 2018BJJEE
The potential for jiu jitsu to enable police officers to be better at their job is enormous. We often observe videos like trips and perfect stand up technique enabling men in nasty situations to...
Enraged EasyJet Passenger Put in RNC & Taps Out
Jul 04, 2018BJJEE
Last Friday, after massive delays to flights in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, and EasyJet passenger headbutted a steward. As he was pinned to the ground by Paris airport security staff, he was put...
Russia’s Ali Magomedov Shocks The World: Taps Bruno Frazatto at ACBJJ
Jul 03, 2018BJJEE
ACBJJ had a much buzzed about edition of the event over the weekend. However while results of the main event were fairly predictable what nobody could’ve predicted was a big upset that happened....
France Hosts Record Breaking National BJJ Championship
Jul 03, 2018BJJEE
This past weekend was the French National Championship, organized by the CFJJB (IBJJF representative in France). Photos: Jits Magazine France. Close to 900 adult competitors (600 in gi and 300 in...
“It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”’s Rob McElhenney Shows Off His Jiu-Jitsu Skills
Jul 02, 2018BJJEE
Rob McElhenney who plays Mac on the FX/FXX comedy series ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and he likes to show it off. He posted a video of himself...
ACBJJ’s President Sick Of Boring BJJ Matches; Threatens To Stop Future Events
Jul 02, 2018BJJEE
Last weekend’s ACBJJ event in Moscow was ACB’s 14th event. An amazing card was set up with some world class BJJ athletes, top Eastern European grapplers and high level MMA fighters. ACB...
Rener Gracie’s 2 Yr Old Son Displays Impressive Grappling Skills on Teddy Bear
Jul 01, 2018BJJEE
For members of the Gracie family, Jiu-Jitsu was already an integral part of their life from the time that they didn’t know how to walk yet… Their fathers were already ‘playing...
Andre Pederneiras Steps Down From Nova Uniao To Run Academy Open To All Teams
Jul 01, 2018BJJEE
Andre Pederneiras, leader of Brazilian BJJ and MMA team Nova Uniao, has announced that he is stepping down from his position. The longtime coach, will be instead focusing on his recent project Upper...
BJJ is Too Expensive? Why Training BJJ is Actually The Best Investment
Jun 29, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by Renato Migliaccio, a BJJ black belt under Ryan Gracie and a Judo black belt. He is a former European and Pan American Champion in BJJ, and has also competed in MMA amassing a 6-1...
How To Make Your BJJ & Yourself Calm like Roger Gracie
Jun 29, 2018BJJEE
Recently, Roger Gracie claimed the title of the best to ever step on the mats. He defeated Buchecha in the much expected rematch and he has done so by submission in a very short time, after he took...
Rivals On the Mats, Roger Gracie & Buchecha Team Up For Unprecedented Training Session
Jun 27, 2018BJJEE
Two of the greatest champions in Jiu-Jitsu history Roger Gracie and Marcus Buchecha left their mat rivalry aside and teamed up to for an incredible BJJ summer camp between July 3 and 7 in Ibiza,...
Summer Camp With Geo & Richie Martinez (10th Planet) in Cyprus
Jun 27, 2018BJJEE
The BJJ & Beach Camp is a top class seminar that combines world class jiu-jitsu instructors with the excellent weather and beaches of the Mediterranean in a package deal that makes it possible to...
How To Do The Savage Loop Choke From Side Control by Alexandre Vieira
Jun 25, 2018BJJEE
Lapel chokes are some of the cleanest, most efficient submissions you can secure when training jiu jitsu in the gi. The loop choke is one of the deadly subsets of those lapel chokes. The thing that...
You’ve Been Doing It Wrong: Here’s a Brilliant Way Of Draining a Cauliflower Ear
Jun 24, 2018BJJEE
Chances are that if you practice Brazilian jiu-jitsu, you know someone whose ears look like a tortellini. Cauliflower ear is caused when the ear receives a blow that shears away the ear’s cartilage...
Great Details To Umpa & Elbow Escape by Kurt Osiander
Jun 23, 2018BJJEE
One of the first moves that you will learn when starting is how to escape a mount. We work on those moves during the first months of BJJ then start focusing on other parts of the ocean of techniques...
Why Being Happy is the Best Mood For Training
Jun 22, 2018BJJEE
Every time when we go to train we feel different. We run on different emotions and body sensations, but they are always in tune. For example, if our dominant feeling is tiredness, then we can’t...
‘Gracie’ Film To Depict Early Days of Gracie Family in US to the Rise of UFC
Jun 21, 2018BJJEE
A film depicting the rise of the UFC through the Gracie family is in production. The film entitled ‘Gracie’ will be written by Robert Specland and will tell the story of the Gracie family...
‘Blue Beltitis’: Why Some People Quit BJJ at Blue Belt
Jun 18, 2018BJJEE
What is ‘BLUE BELTITIS’? According Simon Hayes instructor at Carlson Gracie UK, it’s a common disease in BJJ: “After reading many threads recently from white belts wanting...
BJJ World Champ AJ Agazarm is The New Bodyguard of Youtube Superstars Logan & Jake Paul
Jun 17, 2018BJJEE
Youtube superstar brothers Logan and Jake Paul have more than 28 million subscribers on the video channel and have been all over the news with the outrageous pranks. The older brother, Jake Paul ran...
Marcin Held Tore Up Another Knee in His ACB Debut
Jun 17, 2018BJJEE
Polish BJJ black belt Marcin Held has a fanatastic debit at ACB today. The former UFC and Bellator fighter (24-7), who had 19 bouts under bothe UFC and Bellator, at his first bout for the Russian...
Rodolfo Vieira Puts On Grappling Clinic in His Fourth MMA Bout
Jun 16, 2018BJJEE
Rodolfo Vieira has added another MMA fight to his resume. The bjj ace faced defeated Jacob Holyman-Tague at ACB in AUstralia June 16th. His opponent Jacob Holyman-Tague had a 5-1 professional...
Renzo Gracie Training With One Of The Only 2 Female Black Belts in the Gracie Family
Jun 16, 2018BJJEE
Renzo Gracie first talked about a comeback ahead of his 50th birthday a while back. Back at ADCC he said “I’ll be back soon. MMA. Of course, Scott Coker made me an offer, One FC too, but I...
CM Punk’s BJJ Coach: ‘MMA is Too Hard. He Should Compete in Jiu-Jitsu Instead’
Jun 16, 2018BJJEE
The 36 year old former pro wrestler Phil “CM Punk” Brooks made a disastrous return to action at UFC 225 against Mike The Truth Jackson. Both fighters entered the fight with 0-1 records...
