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Category Archive: Articles, Videos

Drills Every BJJ Practitioner Should Do Daily

  Check out this great video highlighting some important and easy drills all BJJ players should do on a daily basis in prder to improve BJJ specific muscle memory and coordination. Demonstrated...

The Most Effective Way To Coach Someone During a BJJ Competition

Photo: Raphael Levy of Jits Magazine France We’ve all laughed and giggled when we’ve heard less experienced coaches shout to their students things like: “do something”, “get out of...

Thar she BLOWS! The Harpoon sweep by Pedro Sauer

This is a sweep I have never even heard of before. Thanks to Professor Pedro Sauer I am now ready to harpoon myself some large fish! This is a simple sweep and GI dependant (as demonstrated). I’m...

The Case : Drilling versus Sparring in BJJ

This topic is a sensitive one. There are people who do not believe in drilling techniques (Kit Dale for instance) and there are people who drill endlessly in order to sharpen their technique ,...

Why Are Some People Unable to Roll Light?

The fact of the matter is that you will often meet people who just seem to not be able to roll light. Most of them will be white belts, although every now and then you will also meet a higher belt...

Joe Rogan On the Benefits Of Jiu-Jitsu & Being In Great Shape At 53 Years of Age

BloodyElbow‘s Stephie Daniels did an in-depth interview with Joe Rogan. This is what the Jiu-Jitsu black belt had to stay about benefits of Jiu-Jitsu and staying in shape: “Stephie...

Bulletproof Your Knees with The Kettlebell Swing: Best Leg Workout Exercise

Some exercises need little introduction, and the same can be said for the Kettlebell Swing. It is one of the best BJJ-specific exercises that you can do; one that will improve your hip strength and...

Helio and Rickson Gracie Teaching MMA to Royler in This Historical Video

Below is the best video you can see this week, when it comes to Jiu-Jitsu and MMA. In this true Jiu-Jitsu relic, kindly provided by rickson.academy , the great master Helio Gracie and champion...

Old-School Your Way To Victory With The Plier Sweep with Carlos Machado

Old school is often times the best school! If it weren’t for the BJJ masters and grandmasters, our sport wouldn’t be where it is today; both in terms of its rich history and lifestyle,...

82-year-old Promoted To BJJ Black Belt

Another BJJ adept practitioner that age is just a number. An 82-year-old man from Brazil was honored to be nominated for the championship belt. Adegard Câmar Florentino’s hard work was...

De Ashi Harai Sweep from Open Guard with ADCC champion Gordon Ryan

Each sweep requires a lot of effort. In fact, in many cases a well-practiced technique will be effective, but also surprising for the opponent. In a perfect sweep, you shouldn’t be using any...

62 yr Old Jiu-Jitsu Practitioner Attacked In Parking Lot, Puts Attacker To Sleep

Why train bjj….. Because $h!t happens and you need to be ready when it does. BJJ black belt instructor Adam Nadow tells the story of what just happened to his student Mike Lowery: “Former...

Jiu-Jitsu & Vale Tudo Legend Fernando Pinduka: ‘MMA Rules Nowadays Do Not Favor Jiu-Jitsu’

Fernando Pinduka is a true legend of the gentle art. Black belt under Carlson Gracie, he was one of the biggest names in Jiu-Jitsu during the 1980s, known for the epic battle with Marco Ruas in 1984...

Rickson Gracie: ‘A Black Belt Competitor is Just an Amateur Black Belt’

The belt and stripe system is the system that a coach uses to grade his students accordingly. This system is similar to the system traditional martial arts use, but very different from wrestling for...

Osama Bin Laden was a Judo Black Belt, Trained with Saudi National Judo Team in 80’s

A judo coach from Taiwan claims that he taught Osama Bin Laden in Saudi Arabia in the early Eighties. Jimmy Wu produced pictures and video from the early 1980’s of him with students that...

Top 5 Supplements for Muscle Recovery and Weight Loss

Whether you’re just thinking of getting into BJJ or an experienced BJJ practitioner, it would never hurt to add muscle mass, drop a few pounds, or recover from an intense workout. But...

Great Video That Will Get You Fired Up To Train & Improve Your BJJ

Great video that will get you super motivated to train and improve. Here is the text. Check out the video below: It starts today. You will roll just one minute longer. You will get another round in....

How to Maintain Mount Against a Skilled, Larger Opponent

The mount is the most dominating position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but there is no point in attaining he mount if you can’t keep it. The most important thing is you have to secure the mount first...

A Unique Training Approach For Older Grapplers

In this day-in-age, we’re always looking for something “different”, “unique” and “out of the box” when it comes to our everyday life.  For Brazilian Jiu Jitsu grapplers, there is...

Dream Art, The Project Producing Future Black Belt World Champions

One of the most positive events in the BJJ community in 2018 was the creation of the Alliance affiliated team “Dream Art Project”. A team like no else, “Dream Art Project” has managed to...

Demian Maia Shows a Brilliant Trick To Stop The Guard Pull in BJJ

Pulling guard in the BJJ world is often ridiculed by Judoka and Wrestlers who see it as a cowardly way to face someone. Nowadays with the rules of sport BJJ, you can win matches with very little...

Demian Maia’s Body Triangle Collar Choke

Many of us will get to to our training partner’s back and immediately focus on securing a choke or armbar. There is an easier option that many forget: The body triangle submission. Yes, that’s...

Tap ANYONE from INSIDE their guard- Wendell Alexander, Nova Uniao Co-Founder

Being inside somebody’s closed guard can often be a nightmare because of the constant necessity to open and pass it, as well as because of the constant danger of being swept and submitted… But,...

Judo Black Belt Puts BJJ Black Belt to Sleep in Competition

Judo black belt puts BJJ black belt to sleep with choke. Be careful with Judokas on the ground. They use unexpected moves for BJJ players and have great control. Sode Gyruma is called Ezequiel in BJJ...