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Category Archive: Articles, Health, Health & Nutrition

Jiu-Jitsu Recovery: Reduce Pain with These 6 Key Tips

It is well-known that hard training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu can result in a lot of bodily pain. Unfortunately, many people let it get to the point where they cannot take part in BJJ before they try to...

NEVER BEFORE SEEN Ricardo Arona BJJ Matches at 99′ IBJJF Worlds Brown Belt

Ricardo Arona won ADCC on 3 occasions without ever having a point scored on him… Let that sink in… Arona is a BJJ black belt under Ricardo Libório. He also had a highly successful MMA career...

Teenage BJJ Student Details Sexual Abuse From Convicted Rapist Instructor Nicollas Araujo

BJJ instructor and former Cobrinha affiliate Nicollas Welker Araujo  was arrested last year on on suspicion of raping his female minor student Stevie Knapp,  abc7 reported. Earlier this week,...

Cobrinha Shares his Favorite Acai Bowl Recipe

Acai (ah-sigh-ee) is known in Brazil as the most nutritious, energy providing fruit. It grows in the lush floodplains of the Amazon River. Acai is a Brazilian berry original from the Amazon Region...

Flashback: Ronda Rousey Takes on 3 Male Judokas on Japanese TV Show

Japanese TV has hosted a  series of strange challenge matches between top female grapplers vs male Judokas. While male vs female rolling sessions are normal in the gym, they are much rarer in a...

Surf Legend Kelly Slater: ‘Kids Should Do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Before Any Other Sport’

Surf and Jiu-Jitsu have a lot in common as both are a lifestyle. Many surfers train Jiu-Jitsu. Among the most famous ones are Joel Tudor (BJJ black belt) and the Michael Jordan of Surfing: Kelly...

Bernardo Faria Shows His Favorite Way To Take The Back in the Gi

Yeah, we know how it goes. You fought hard to get your training partner into an inferior position… And you’ve done it! In fact, you’ve placed them into one of the most defensive positions there...

3 Things Elon Musk Can Teach You About Becoming Good In BJJ

When you want to become good in BJJ, it’s not enough to just go come to training and go through the motions. On the contrary; when you’re on the mats, you have to be absolutely present to...

Mackenzie Dern Faces Male Judo Black Belt in Japan

Japanese TV has hosted a  series of strange challenge matches between top female grapplers vs male Judokas. While male vs female rolling sessions are normal in the gym, they are much rarer in a...

Gordon Ryan Details Covid-19 Experience: ‘I Lost 15lbs & Lost Sense of Smell For a Month’

3x ADCC champion Gordon Ryan tested positive for Covid-19 2 months ago and had to, along with Craig Jones, pull out of the last Who’s Number One main card. In this video from his instagram, he...

Body Lock Ribs Squeeze Takedown with ADCC Champ Joao Assis

Upper body throws and takedowns look cool for the audience (and it’s DEFINITELY not fun for the guy landing on the mat) but that’s not why. There is real strategy going into this game plan!...

Score 9 Points in a BJJ Match with This Takedown Sequence

In BJJ, you want to know the rules so that you can use them to your advantage. How about if you start off the match with a huge 9 point advantage? Then you have pretty much already won and you can...

World Judo Silver Medalist Teaches Buchecha a Great Modified Drop Seoi Nage

Seoi nage is a shoulder throw, one of the traditional forty throws of Judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of...

John Danaher Shows an Unpredictable Collar Drag Takedown Set-Up

If you struggle to get takedowns, and don’t have time to cross train in Judo or Wrestling, here is a really simple option which you should add to your takedown. This takedown is so simple that any...

Application of the Single Leg Takedown From the Back by John Danaher

When you train BJJ where most of the focus is on the ground, you won’t always have time to train Judo or Wrestling as much as you’d like. It’s about making a choice: do you want to be a...

How To Recover From An Accidental Strike To The Balls in Jiu-Jitsu

In Grappling, you are less prone to get hit in the family jewels than in striking but the risk still exists. Under IBJJF rules, you cannot wear a cup. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t wear a...

IBJJF Won’t Recognize Enson Inoue’s BJJ Black Belt

MMA legend and old school BJJ black belt Enson Inoue has been retired from MMA since 2004 (he had a short comeback fight in 2010), but he has started training Jiu-Jitsu again in 2016 after taking a...

Should I wear a cup when I roll in BJJ?

Athletic cups. Some decide to wear them in training, some choose not to or simply don’t care. While in training you are allowed to wear one, you have to remember that in BJJ competitions, cups are...

Here’s What Will Happen When Conor McGregor Fights Manny Pacquiao

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...

Never Forget: Your Personal Competition Success in BJJ Is Due To Your Team

Written by Andrew “Major” Johnson, BJJ black belt -Andrew trains under Joshua “Foca” Miller at Gracie Barra Lexington, SC.   Recently some of our students attended a regional...

The Spinning Baseball Bat Choke Will Sleep Your Opponents FAST!

If you want to tap your opponent out, then one of the things you should think about is: „Which submission and its setup are the sneakiest ones from here… Which is the one that my opponent...

Joe Rogan On Krav Maga: ‘The Best Martial Arts Are the ones that Work on Other Martial Artists, not Just on Untrained People’

You often hear Krav Maga marketing itself as THE self defense practice, however many people actually wonder if it really is all that it claims to be? Krav Maga  “contact combat”) is a military...

Actor Jeremy Piven is the Latest Celebrity To Train Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is getting more and more popular among the Hollywood A list celebrities. Famous people that train or have trained in BJJ include Ashton Kutcher, Prince Jackson (son of Michael...

Joe Rogan On Why He Doesn’t Want To Compete in Jiu-Jitsu

Joe Rogan has long been one of the most influential people in the bjj community and out of it. The 52 year old stand-up comedian, mixed martial arts color commentator, podcast host, and businessman...