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Author Archive: BJJEE

BJ Penn Looking lean Before Featherweight Debut Vs Frankie Edgar

  Former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion, BJ Penn is currently cutting weight to drop down two weight classes to face with Frankie Edgar at featherweight in the UFC and on TUF season...

Sheikh Tahnoon’s Adopted Son, Faisal Al Ketbi Added To Copa Podio Heavyweight GP

  United Arab Emirates national, Faisal Al ketbi who is a BJJ brown belt has been included in Copa Podio’s 2014 heavyweight Grand prix. Faisal is the adopted son of Sheikh Tahnoon bin...

Useful Rear Naked Choke Tips From Clark Gracie

  Grapplearts’s Stephen Kesting recently did a podcast interview with Clark Gracie at a friend’s house. After the interview Clark shared some really great tips about setting up and...

Pro Surfer Patrick Beven On Combining The Surfing & Jiu-Jitsu Lifestyle

Born in Brazil, Patrick Beven began surfing at eight years old. He moved to France at twelve to dedicate his life to surfing. There he built up his reputation as a well-trained, powerful surfer on...

IBJJF Under Attack: Accusations Of Corruption, Fraud, Initially Being Funded By Drug Traffickers etc…

The website Bullshido.net which is famous for uncovering frauds and false claims in martial arts, has now focused on the leading federation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the IBJJF which is run by Carlos...

Marcio ‘Pe De Pano”: “I Don’t Even Know What A Berimbolo Is.”

  BJJ legend ‘Marcio Pe de Pano’ Cruz has been away from the BJJ spotlight for the past few years. He is currently a Professional MMA fighter. The 2 time absolute (2002/03) world...

Lightweight Leandro Lo To Compete In The Copa Podio Heavyweight GP

  Since the first edition of Copa Podio, Leandro Lo has had his arm raised 21 times by event referees. The São Paulo native fighting out of Cícero Costha’s team, and who is as yet...

Ryan Hall On Self Defense Only Schools, Specializing In 1 Technique & Sport BJJ As A Valid Form Of Combat

BJJ champion Ryan Hall spoke to the Fightworks Podcast about his experience of using Jiu-Jitsu in a restaurant altercation.  In the interview, Hall spoke about Martial arts schools that are...

The History Of The Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Belt System

  Professor Pedro Valente on the history of the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Belt System and the method currently used at Valente Brothers. Valente Brothers acknowledges and respects the fact that today,...

Jean Jacques Machado On His Difficult First Years In The US & Getting The Coral Belt From Rickson

  Full interview with the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend Jean Jacques of the Machado clan. Jean Jacques speaks on the difficulty of his migration to the USA, the early days of promoting Bjj and...

Xande Ribeiro Moves Back To Brazil After 10 Years In The US

  We had anounced it a few weeks ago from information coming from our sources, but now it’s official. Xande Ribeiro is moving back to Brazil: From Xande’s Facebook: It s with great...

Vale Tudo Legend Jorge Pereira Graduated To 7th Degree Red & Black Belt

  Master Jorge Pereira is a Vale tudo legend student of Rickson Gracie and the leader of Roots BJJ. You can read our interview with him here. This week he received the red and black belt (coral...

Joe Rogan and Eddie Bravo Talk Rickson Gracie and Kron Gracie at ADCC 2013

    In this video UFC Commentator and comedian Joe Rogan and his good friend and BJJ Black Belt Eddie Bravo founder of 10th planet Jujitsu talk about this years ADCC 2013. BJJ video...

Paul Walker Gets Promoted To BJJ Black Belt At Memorial

  Paul Walkers BJJ Trainer Ricardo Franjinha Miller, Owner at Paragon Bjj Academy and Owner at Ventura Paragon Brazilian Jiu Jitsu awarded the deceased movie star with his Brazilian Jui Jitsu...

Training Session For Charity In Geneva, Switzerland 21.12.13

  On Saturday, December 21 in Geneva, Icon Switzerland’s Anderson Pereira is inviting all to come for a charity training sessions. All proceeds will go to help childern with cancer in...

Rio Grappling Club Armenia, First BJJ Club in Armenia

  BJJ in the Caucasus is growing clubs in Azerbaijan and Chechnya popping up. Armenia is a country with a strong wrestling and judo culture so it’s only normal that BJJ would grtow there....

Watch This Funny Drunk Play Fight Between Frank Mir & Jon Jones In A Moscow Hotel

  From www.bloodyelbow.com: Last month, UFC Light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and former Heavyweight champion Frank Mir headed to Russia as part of a UFC PR visit. Both men made the rounds...

IBJJF Rome Open & European No Gi Confirmed For April 5 & 6th, 2014

  Jiu-Jitsu is expanding more and more in Europe and the IBJJF is doing a good job on expanding the annual competition calendar. In 2014, Rome will once again host 2 IBJJF event: The Rome...

Luta Livre Open, Novi Sad, Serbia 21.12.13

  Luta Livre black belt Damir Dado Mihajlovic is organizing his traditional yearly tournament. Luta Livre Submission – NOVI SAD OPEN 2013 organized by FAMILY FIGHT TEAM on 21. 12. 2013th...

Watch The Showdown Between Two Of Latin America’s Best Grapplers: Ecuador’s ‘Sinistro’ & Mexico’s Dan Schon

  Ecuador’s Francisco ‘Sinistro’ Iturralde and Mexico’s Dan Schon are two of the very best black belts in latin America (except Brazil of course). Both are multiple world...

2013 BJJ Pro League: Moraes, Estima, Cornelius & Pe De Pano Win 5,000$ Prize Money

  The 2013 BJJ Pro League on Sunday, Dec. 8 was full of action. Stars of the past, present and future collided in the IBJJF’s only tournament with prize money (5,000 $ per division).  In...

Watch Kit Dale Talks About A Concept That Can Change Your Whole BJJ Game (Not A Joke)

  Checkmat Australia’s Kit Dale is not only of the biggest prospects in BJJ, he is also one of the funniest. In this serious video, Kit Dale shows shows one concept that can change your whole...

Frankie Edgar Gets Promoted To BJJ Black Belt By Ricardo Almeida

  The number 3 ranked featherweight in the world, Frankie Edgar is the newest BJJ black belt in the UFC . He was promted this weekend by his long time master, Ricardo Almeida. Almeida, who is a...

Grappling tournament in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska. All proceeds will go to help Lazar Risar a homeless athlete in Sombor, Serbia.

  By Dragan Pesic On Sunday 15th December in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (Bosnia) the MMA Wonder Crew is organizing and 4Life Gym are organizing the first grappling tournament in Republik...