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Category Archive: Articles

Try These Self-Care Tips To Live Your Best Life in Bangalore

Living alone in Bangalore can be extremely exciting but it isn’t as easy as it sounds. You’ve got a lot on your plate, between handling your work or college, trying to establish a social life,...

Why One Should Open a DEMAT Account Right Away?

Dematerialized accounts, also known as DEMAT accounts, are the digital platforms where you hold your securities such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. They are the modern equivalent of paper...

Jordan Burroughs: “I Want One MMA Fight Before I Retire, Just One”

Jordan Burroughs is one of the most recognizable and dominant wrestlers of all time. The 33-year old began with wrestling when he was just 5 years old and became an Olympic Gold Medalist in 2012....

It’s Never Too Late For BJJ: Betty Broadhurst Earns Black Belt at 65 Years Old

It’s been a big day for Betty Broadhurst this last weekend. She started her Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu journey 11 years ago, back when she was 54 years old; and now – after competing at and...

Why BJJ Doesn’t Make You Happy.. And How To Change That

When you first started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, everything was so great! The novelty of the sport, the challenging techniques and the exhilaration when you’d learn them, the great people...

BJJ Basics: Learn These 3 Types Of Top Mount Posture

If you’re just starting out in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, things can seem a bit complicated and a bit more then hectic at times. But when you break it down, BJJ is simply comprised out of a set of...

Jocko Willink: “Jiu-Jitsu Helped Me Connect The Dots In My Life”

Bernardo Faria recently had a pleasure to attend Jocko Willink’s conference about leadership. During the conference, Willink emphasized that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was instrumental in helping him...

Raw Grappling Championship: Rafael Lovato Jr. Beats Adam Wardzinski

The first edition of the Raw Grappling Championship took place last Sunday, November 14, in London. The event featured a lot of local blue and purple belt match-ups, as well as a black belt grand...

Male BJJ White Belt Submits Female Brown Belt Then All Hell Breaks Loose

If you’re a higher level BJJ belt, it is likely the case that you often go easy on the lower belts. And probably for a good reason – you don’t want to get their spirits crushed and discourage...

Three Unusual Ways To End A Street Altercation In Seconds

Street fights are always a big no-no. Whenever you find yourself in a situation where it looks like that things are going to get out of control, you need to turn around and get away from such a...

Easily Escape The Single Leg X And Take Your Opponent’s Back

Just because you’re in a bad spot to begin with in BJJ, it doesn’t have to mean that you’ll end up getting swept or submitted! If you know what you’re doing, then you can turn...

BJJ Game Changer: Focus More On CONCEPTS – Less On TECHNIQUES

Getting good in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu isn’t always as effortless as it may seem. When looking at it from the sidelines, it seems as easy as: „Watch a technique, learn it, and then use it during...

Ryan Hall: ‘You Shouldn’t Be Competing in BJJ Unless You Are 100% Prepared’

Ryan Hall is a UFC fighter, BJJ black belt, head instructor of 50/50 BJJ, an ADCC bronze medalist with a long career in high level competition throughout which he has beaten many of the top grapplers...

A Great (Triangle Choke) Trick – Ditch The Details, Focus On The Basics

How do you approach problem-solving in Jiu Jitsu? Meaning, if something isn’t going according to plan – for example, you performed badly in competition or you figured out that your technique...

How To Find The Right Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy That Will Prepare You For Competition

Training BJJ for fun and training for competition are two different things. Some BJJ academies will not properly prepare you for competition, so we put down the main things that you need to look for...

Legendary Wrestler Aleksandr Karelin On How He Mentally Prepares For Competition

The mental game is 90% of your success. Aleksandr definitely had the mental edge. Aleksandr Karelin, born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR is a Hero of the Russian Federation and was a...

Make Your Guard Difficult To Pass by Using These Tips

Your offense will be only as good as your defense is. In that way, your ability to impose attacks from the bottom… Will be only as good as your ability to prevent the opponent from passing your...

IBJJF Grand Prix 2021: Tainan Dalpra & Victor Hugo Claim $20,000 Each

One of the most exciting grand prix events took place this weekend, in Las Vegas (Nevada). The IBJJF featured two grand prix tournaments – the middleweight and heavyweight one – with each...

What a BJJ Black Belt Would Say to Himself at Every Belt Level

Written by BJJ Black Belt Brandon Gross of the David vs Goliath BJJ Youtube Channel ​ White belt – “Stop rolling 100% and treating every match like a death match. Let go of your pride,...

Joe Rogan: “I’m Super Flexible – I Could S*ck My Own D**k If I Wanted To”

Joe Rogan will always be a fun character. He just never seems to run out of interesting, funny… And sometimes rather unexpected things to say. Which is exactly what he did during a new episode...

White Belt Explains Why He Quit Jiu-Jitsu After Just 4 Weeks of Training

To train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is not an easy task. It takes a lot of determination, grit, and the desire to become the best that you can in the martial art. However, it also takes a bit of cooperation...

Worlds Master 2021: Roberto “Cyborg” Abreu Wins Two Golds

The Worlds Master 2021 took place on November 11, in parallel with Jiu-Jitsu Con, and brought forth many exciting matches and superb grapplers. The most well-known of them all is perhaps Roberto...

Breaking: Craig Jones Vs. Donald Cerrone CJJ Superfight Announced

If you’ve thought that the world of Jiu-Jitsu couldn’t get more interesting than it already is, you’ve thought wrong. Eddie Bravo’s Combat Jiu-Jitsu Worlds: The Featherweights...

Here’s Why Everything That You’re Doing In BJJ is Wrong

Do you ever sit down and think to yourself: „DAMN! Is anything that I do in Jiu Jitsu ever going to work? Why do I fail in everything that I try to do?! I thought that I knew how to roll, that my...