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Author Archive: BJJEE

Newly Promoted Black Belt Erberth Santos Training Hard in Dubai for 2015 Europeans

      Erberth Santos, 20 years old, was the world’s best brown belt in 2014. He had an exceptional year where at brown belt he was world champion – weight and absolute, and...

Watch a Class with Gui Mendes at Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy: Warm Up Drill + Technique

    Graciemag was present at Rafael and Gui Mendes’s Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy . This is the fundamentals class at Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy, in Costa Mesa, California. Four-time world...

BJJ Mental Coach: What To Look For When You Google Opponents Before Your Jiu-Jitsu Tournaments

    From BJJ Mental Coach Gustavo Dantas: Do you Google your opponents before a Jiu-Jitsu competition? Well, I do 🙂 In this video blog, you will hear about three strategies that you can...

Anderson Silva Receives 3rd Degree on Black Belt from Rodrigo Minotauro

    Ahead of his big UFC comeback fight with Nick Diaz on January 31st 2015, the former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva recently received the third degree on his black belt from...

Yuri Simoes Shines and earns 5,000$ at 2014 IBJJF Long Beach BJJ Pro

    Photo Graciemag The IBJJF closed its 2014 calendar year last Sunday 14th of December, with the Long Beach Pro BJJ, in California. Highlights of the tournament, held for the first time,...

Gustavo Dantas on Mental Preparation in Jiu-Jitsu

    “Mental Preparation is highly underestimated in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Community” According to The BJJ Mental Coach, Gustavo Dantas, often times athletes put so much effort on the...

Unity Jiu-Jitsu’s Ana Lowry: ‘The Miyao Bros are Excited About Moving To New York City & Will Keep on Training Just as Hard’

    The Miyao brothers have made a big step in their career: They  are moving to New York city to teach Jiu-Jitsu at new academy Unity Jiu-Jitsu! Paulo & Joao Miyao will not be a lone...

Watch The Kimura Trap: Sebastian Brosche vs Kywan Gracie Behring at Toukon Challenge

  The Toukon Challenge which was held on November 23 at London’s Clapham Grand was a great success. It was the first edition of an elite, invitation only grappling event; Featuring exciting...

FREE LIVE STREAM Poland’s Ragnarok Gi & No Gi Tournament, Saturday Dec 13

    Today in Poland from 15:30 (Polish time) will start the elite tournament.  The organizers use IBJJF slightly modified rules to spice up the show. The finals will be held on principles...

Miyao Bros Open New Academy In New York

    The Miyao brothers have made a big step in their career: They  are moving to New York city to teach Jiu-Jitsu at new academy Unity Jiu-Jitsu! Paulo & Joao Miyao will not be a lone...

Watch The Epic New Jiu Jitsu World League Promo Video Feat Luiz Panza

    Here is the epic promo video of the newest league to come out: the creation of Rigan Machado and Mathew Tinley:  the Jiu-Jitsu World League (JJWL) Machado is a coral belt part of the...

Vanessa English Vs Rosi Sexton, TUFF Invitational, 20 Mins Sub Only Superfight:

    On December 6th, the UK’s TUFF Grappling Challenge recently  her their first Submission Only show: TUFF Invitational. TUFF Invitational consisted of 12 submission only, super fights...

Pawel’s Story: From The Hospital to the IBJJF Rome Open Podium

    Written by BJJ black belt Paweł Kaczyński, head coach of Chaos Gold Team in Poland. Make sure to check out his great website pawelkaczynski.com.   At Gold Team summer camp 2103...

CM Punk on His MMA Level: ‘I’ve Only Sparred a Few Times & Train Infrequently with Rener Gracie’

    Former WWE champion CM Punk was last week signed by the UFC. The news shocked a lot of MMA fans as he has no MMA record, no prior martial arts background although at 35 years old,...

Roger Gracie: “I Want To Face Ronaldo Jacare in Metamoris”

  Last Friday (05), Roger Gracie , 10x black belt world Jiu-Jitsu champion Roger Gracie TKO’d James McSweeney with a kick at One FC. This was Roger’s first ever knockout victory. So far he...

Gabi Garcia on 2015 MMA plans, Minimum Weight She Can Make & Who She Wants To Fight

    Nine times World BJJ champion Gabi Garcia was set to make her much awaited MMA debut for Chinese-based, Japanese-managed, promotion Real Fight Championship , in Japan on December 23,...

Ashton Kutcher Promoted to BJJ Purple Belt by Rigan Machado

      It looks like Ashton Kutcher has been promoted to purple belt by Rigan Machado. Back in February 2014 he was a promoted straight to a ‘2 stripe blue belt’ by Machado....

Crazy Storm Kimonos Christmas Deals: 2 Storm Rashguards for $29,99 !

    Best Deal You’ll find anywhere: Storm Kimonos are having some short term 2 for the Price 1 promotions: 2 rashguards for $29,99!  Type the code ‘EEBJJ’ to take advantage of their...

Toukon Challenge Highlight Video

    The Toukon Challenge which was held on November 23 at London’s Clapham Grand was a great success. It was the first edition of an elite, invitation only grappling event; Featuring...

Amazing HL Video: 2014 Netherlands National Pro (World Pro Trials)

  The Netherlands National Pro Jiu-Jitsu Championship was held on Sunday 30 Nov 2014 at Sports Hall Zuid, Amsterdam, Holland. There was well over 100 competitors from all over Europe competing...

Anderson Silva on Racism, Homosexuality in MMA & Ballet

    Considered by many the best MMA fighter of all time, Anderson Silva has his fair share of hardships growing up in Brazil. In an interview with Brazil’s Trip magazine, Anderson...

Buchecha: ‘Jiu-Jitsu Needs New Rules. I Can Barely Watch It Nowadays, It’s Too Boring’

    Jiu-Jitsu’s biggest current star and reigning absolute world champion has publicly showed his support for the newest league to come out: the creation of Rigan Machado and Mathew...

‘Jiu-Jitsu Stevie’ Linton on Competing as a Black Belt, His Native American Heritage & His Popular Blog

      Stevie Linton is an active black belt adult competitor, instructor and BJJ blogger. You have probably heard of him through his excellent blog Jiu-Jitsu Stevie where he constantly...

JT Torres in Favor of Judges to Decide Outcome of Metamoris Matches

      Fightinglifestyleuae.com caught up with 2013 no gi jiu-jitsu world champion Jonathan JT Torres, during his visit to the United Arab Emirates. Jt Torres was recently seen...