Sandbagging Anyone? What Should We Do about a European Sambo Champion Competing in a BJJ White Belt Division?
May 19, 2021BJJEE
Sandbagging is a term used in martial arts to denote a practitioner who competes at a skill-bracket deemed less rigorous than their actual level of competitive ability. The term is adopted similarly...
They Forget To Warn You About These Things When You Start Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
May 19, 2021BJJEE
You’re on your way to your first BJJ class, aren’t you? All excited and cannot wait to hit the mats, right? Cool! However, before you get to your first training session, hear us...
Use These Keto-Friendly FoodsTo Spice Up Your Meals
May 18, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
Getting The Most Out Of Your Deadlifts
May 18, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
Don’t Fall For These Common Strength & Conditioning Myths
May 18, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
Should You SKIP Jiu-Jitsu Training To See Your Friends?
May 18, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Every now and then, you’ll come to ask yourself if you should skip Jiu-Jitsu – in order to see your friends. But should you do it? Should you skip training in order to spend some time with...
Your BJJ Will Never Be Great… If You Don’t Get Your MINDSET Right!
May 17, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
If you truly wish not just to „improve“ your Jiu Jitsu – but to make it the best that you can, then there are a LOT of things that you need to take into consideration, and take care of. The...
Getting Your Next Belt In Jiu Jitsu IS Important
May 17, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Getting your next belt IS NOT the most important thing in the world. If the belt promotion is the only thing you’re focused on while you’re on your BJJ journey, then you can bet that this...
Things BJJ Girls Need To STOP Doing
May 17, 2021BJJEE
Wrestling, BJJ and MMA are combat sports that were developed by men and initially for men to prepare for battle or in a sports setting, for competition. If you look at the Gracie family in Brazil,...
The Best Advice For Women Starting Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
May 17, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Starting with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu can be an unusual experience for everyone, men and women alike. But the „online world“ tends to share much more advice for men than it does for women, simply due...
These Things You Should Know After ONE MONTH Of Jiu-Jitsu
May 17, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
eginOne month of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu isn’t a lot. As a matter of fact, if you’ve been training only for one month, then you shouldn’t expect too much from yourself… But still,...
BALTIC OPEN GRAPPLING CHAMPIONSHIP Gi & No Gi, JUNE 5th 2021
May 16, 2021BJJEE
BALTIC OPEN GRAPPLING CHAMPIONSHIP Gi & No Gi The competition takes place on 5th June 2021 at 11:00 in Zeimiu str. 17, Jonava, , Lithuania. Sport Arena of Jonava city www.jonavosarena.lt Arrival...
Catch Everyone with Braulio Estima’s Spinning Kneebar
May 15, 2021BJJEE
Braulio Estima pulled off an epic spinning knee bar from spider guard a few years back at the world championships (which he won). It’s often thought that leg locks are the “great equalizer” of...
Avoid Submissions with These Blast Double Takedown Set Ups in BJJ
May 15, 2021BJJEE
Double leg takedown is probably the most utilized and high percentage takedown in MMA. And it is not only used in that sport, but also in many others like freestyle wrestling, BJJ, grappling, sambo,...
John Danaher On The Right Way To Drill Techniques in Jiu-Jitsu For Maximum Skill Acquisition
May 14, 2021BJJEE
If you’ve been practicing BJJ for awhile, you’ve probably heard/used the phrase: “Drillers are killers”. Indeed, drilling for BJJ has been found to be effective by many students, especially...
4 Tips To Make Friends FAST In A New BJJ Academy
May 14, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
So you just came to your new BJJ academy! Perhaps it’s your first training session ever, or you made a transfer from another academy to this one; or you may be travelling and decided to get in...
John Danaher Black Belt: BJJ World Champions Should Only Be At Black Belt
May 13, 2021BJJEE
The arbitrary nature of the bjj belt system has established a reality where there is a big number of competitors who can all claim they’re World Champions. But sure there even be such thing as...
John Danaher Goes Deep Into The Value of Training with Lower Belts
May 13, 2021BJJEE
Carlson Gracie said: “If you want to be a lion, you have to train with lions” Many people understand that as meaning that all your training should be with people that can defeat you and that will...
Opinion: Why Co-Ed Classes Are The Best Way For Women To Improve in Jiu-Jitsu
May 13, 2021BJJEE
Being a member of a gym in Eastern Europe you get to wondering often what it would be like to be able to practice with more females, or just a smaller number of ginormous men really. In the modern...
John Danaher’s Brilliant Analogy on Why You Shouldn’t Be Trying To Win Every Single Roll at the Academy
May 12, 2021BJJEE
Tapping people out is, you could argue, the very essence of BJJ. After all, you’re here to learn how to control and submit as many training partners as possible, right? So, getting those taps is...
Joe Rogan Guillotines Strange Guy During Heated Argument That Turned Physical
May 12, 2021BJJEE
Joe Rogan is mostly known as a podcast host (the mega popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast), a stand up comedian, UFC commentator but most people do not know that he also has a legit combat sports...
How Long Does It Take For Your Body To Digest Food?
May 12, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
5 Ways To Level Up Your Push-Ups
May 12, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
John Danaher Shares Some Epic Stories from His Bouncer Days & His Beginnings in BJJ
May 12, 2021BJJEE
John Danaher is known as one of the best instructors in Jiu-Jitsu and MMA. The New Zealand born, BJJ black belt under Renzo Gracie has been praised by the BJJ community as being a master and brain of...
