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Category Archive: Articles, Videos

Fix Common Mistakes & Start To Omoplata Everybody

The omoplata is a great move that is often underused or not properly used in BJJ. It’s a submission, a sweep, and a setup for other submissions and sweeps. It is not the easiest move to pull off...

“Pressure Point” Counter to the Double Leg Takedown

Over the years we’ve seen oh so many great (in horrible ways) self defense videos. There’s pinching, slapping but probably everyone’s favorite is a one touch ko. Self Defense vs...

Caio Terra: The Keys to Success in BJJ

World champion Caio Terra rose through the ranks of jiu-jitsu at an incredible rate, going from white to black belt in only three years. The outspoken roosterweight champion is known for his...

Pass The Guard Like Rodolfo Vieira: Pressure Passing Combinations

  Excellent study from BJJ Scout about Rodolfo Vieira’s world class guard passing. Features his knee slide, over under, cross face kick out (Terere pass), cross face long step, cross face...

Never Get Your Guard Passed: Granby Rolling Against Pressure Passes

The Granby roll is a wrestling reversal named for Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, where it was popularized by teacher and hall of fame wrestling coach Billy Martin. A Granby roll is...

Understanding Various BJJ Styles: Pressure, Dynamic, Half Guard…

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...

Gui Mendes: 95% of People Never Become Champs Because They Lack Character Strength

Gui Mendes has been wildly successful on the competitive scene prior to retiring in 2015 at age 26. He’s won Worlds 4x in 2009,11,12,14 and a variety of other medals mostly in light...

Western Media Calls Bullshido On Putin’s Judo Expertise

Vladimir Putin has always had a carefully crafted hyper masculine way of representing himself. His martial art skills are always fawned upon in Russia media however a report recently surfaced in...

Here’s Why You Need To Start BJJ ASAP

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 MMA Fighters Who Used Their Base Martial Art Better Than Anyone Else In The Game

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...

Here’s Why Martial Arts Is Better Than Tinder

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...

Simplify Your BJJ: Go For The Leglock Immediately After A Takedown!

There are a LOT of cool sequences to try out and use in BJJ! One of our sport’s greatest advantages is exactly that; the opportunity to mix all of those moves together, with an ultimate goal of...

Brown Belt Challenges Instructor: If He Wins He Gets a Black Belt, If He Loses…

GF Team Brown Belt Challenges Instructor: If He Wins He Gets a Black Belt, If He Loses… The deal is:  If the blackbelt taps him under 30 seconds he would come back to White belt, if under 1 min...

Understanding The Different Teaching Methods in Grappling

Written by Sportscientist Maciel Welko, Luta Livre instructor at http://www.lutalivre-academy.de/. A longer and more detailed version will be addressed in the book of the author of this article...

Try These Three High Percentage Side Control Escapes, Right Now!

Side Control is one of those positions you might not feel too afraid of. „Sure, I’m in a defensive position, but it isn’t so bad“, you rationalize to yourself… As your opponent...

Craig Jones Shows The incredible Heel Hook Sequence Used Against Vinny Magalhaes

2019 ADCC silver medalist Craig Jones shows the incredible heel hook sequence that he used on Vinny Magalhaes which resulted in a serious injury for the Brazilian. Here is what happened: Jones breaks...

Here Are Two Great Ways To Offbalance Your Opponent For A Throw

When you train grappling, there’s a ton of stuff that you have to learn in order to make a technique work. And this doesn’t mean that you just have to understand the way it works, nor...

How to be Old and Badass in Jiu-Jitsu

Photo by BJJ Pix ‘Old man strength’ in Jiu-Jitsu is real. It is usually acquired by men and women around the age of 40. If you are above the age of 40 and reasonably healthy, you will get it. It...

Aikido Techniques Used Against Pro MMA Fighters in Sparring

Aikido once used to be a famous Martial Art, respected by all martial artists. Yet these days it is losing it’s popularity fast, while being compared to other modern martial arts. Yet what made it...

This Is How NOT To Get Triangle Choked When Passing The Guard

You know what they say – if you want to win big, sometimes you have to risk big as well! High risk=high reward, and that is often a very true statement in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Sometimes,...

Khabib Grapples with Daniel Cormier

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself – what would it be like to spar and grapple with Khabib Nurmagomedov? Are his pressure game and his humble attitude as great as they are said to be? Well,...

Cormier On What It’s Like Sparring Khabib: ‘He Feels Strong, It’s Crazy, That Should Not Happen’

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself – what would it be like to spar and grapple with Khabib Nurmagomedov? Are his pressure game and his humble attitude as great as they are said to be? Well,...

John Danaher’s Favorite Judo Throws for BJJ

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...

An In-Depth Look Into Judo Leglocks

Leglocks have been steadily getting more popularity in bjj culminating with all the success of Renzo Gracie’s NY Academy students. Still John Danaher recently shared a pretty scathing review of...