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Category Archive: Articles

Can’t Get The Technique Down No Matter How Much You Drill It? Try This

There are various schools of thought on whether or not doing drills works for making progress in BJJ. However, whichever school of thought you lean to, chances are – especially if you’re just...

Use The Hip Bump Sweep To Set Up These 3 Attacks

You’ve probably been introduced to the Hip Bump Sweep way back in the day, and you’re probably seeing it work much less frequently than it was the case before. The reason for this,...

Andre Galvao Has an Easy Way to Open the Closed Guard

Closed guard is a dangerous place to be in for the one on top. Your opponent has so many options and you, realistically have very few. You either have to open it or force a submission. You need to...

Keanu Reeves: ‘Тhe Deeper Yоu Get into Jiu-Jitsu, You Get Less of a Normal Life’

In the bullet pasted action spectacle ‘John Wick’ we see Keanu Reeves as a retired A-list hit man, who gets in trouble with some Russian gangsters. It doesn’t takes long before they wish they...

Jiu-Jitsu Nutrition For Performance: To Carb Or Not To Carb?

Written by Reid Reale BHlthSc(Hons), MDiet – Sports Dietitian and BJJ black belt combatsportsnutrition.com. Reid works with many of the best judo, boxing, taekwondo and wrestling athletes in...

Rener Gracie On How BJJ Has Infiltrated Mainstream Society in a Short Period of Time

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a relatively young and ever-expanding. The growth of MMA has shined a light on bjj for the average American male who can’t wait to learn and then tell all his friends about...

The Magnificence of Mongolian Judo, & Why It’s So Underrated

In July 2013, for the first time in history, an IJF Judo Grand Prix was held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. By integrating the World Judo Tour, this event gave its credentials to a country which has...

How To Do Luke Rockhold’s One Arm Guillotine Choke

Luke Rockhold’s guillotine choke with one arm, he finished Michael Bisping with the same submission at UFC Fight Night 55 (at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia on November 8, 2014)....

Wrestling, MMA & Jiu-Jitsu: Hardest Sports To Train According To Famous Sports Website

There are so many really tough sports out there. Sport website Cover-Ground.com (which is run by Olympic level athletes, mostly from athletics, track and field) made a list of the hardest sports to...

Russell Peters Used The Wrong Word on His Custom Mouthpiece

World famous comedian Russel Peters has been doing Jiu-Jitsu for three years at the rate of 3 to 4 times a week. He was promoted to blue belt last year by BJJ legend Jean Jacques Machado. Over the...

Stand-Up Comedian On Why NEVER To Fight an MMA Guy in a Club

In a club, the last person you’d want to get into a fight is a professional MMA fighter… Luckily for you, most MMA fighters are usually pretty chilled out since they get their aggression...

Rener Gracie Describes The Big Difference Between BJJ & Other Disciplines

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has proven its effectiveness as a martial art style when at UFC 1, Royce Gracie was able to defeat bigger stronger opponents from other styles, without throwing a single...

Watch: Rampage Jackson Powerbombing in High School Wrestling

Quinton Rampage Jackson had his first experience with combat sports as a wrestler for Raleigh-Egypt High School, enrolling at the school as a 17-year-old freshman, where his career included...

Ronda Rousey Olympic Judo Highlights

Ronda Rousey began Judo with her mother at the age of 11. Rousey trained with her mother until she was 13 after accidentally breaking her mother’s wrist. At 17, Rousey qualified for...

Fundamentals of Strength Training for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Written for BJJEE by Vladimir Popovic, black belt judo, black belt bjj, master degree in sport science and exercise. Strength and condition coach, specialty – martial arts. While strength training...

5 Life Lessons You Learn While Training BJJ

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...

Roger Gracie Teaches Detail Not To Lose The Guillotine in Jiu-Jitsu

Roger Gracie, a legendary figure in competitive Jiu-Jitsu, is teaching a trick to finish the guillotine without a gi. It was in 2011, during Kyra Gracie’s camp for the ADCC in London. Putting...

Breaking News: Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, Khabib’s Father, Has Passed Away

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s father and coach Abdulmanap passed away today in a Moscow hospital after complications from the corona virus at the age of 57. The Mirror first reported. After he was...

UFC’s Teruto Ishihara Gives Advice On How To Get The Ladies

The UFC’s Japanese MMA fighter Teruto Ishihara is an interesting individual… Ishihara has recently admitted that the only reason he fights MMA is get girls! He is 10-7-1 as a pro fighter and...

Margot Robbie Explains Intense Jiu-Jitsu Routine She Did For Harley Quinn

Stunning actress Margot Robbie revealed what her training for the vigorous role of Harley Quinn entailed and it’s no joke.   The slender actress has previously enjoyed much less...

Takedown While Caught In Guillotine: Cause of Numerous Horrific Injuries

There are many ways to defend a standing guillotine. The option of lifting and slamming your opponent on the ground while being caught in a guillotine is one of the more dangerous ones. As reported...

Russian Wrestler Gets Choked Out, Continues And Wins Gold

At the 2016 Olympic Wrestling events, there was some controversy! In the final match of Greco-Roman upto 75kg category Russian Roman Vlasov met with Denmark’s Mark Overgaard and defeated him...

Austrian Judo Champion is Kanye West & Kim Kardashian’s Bodyguard

The most photographed couple in the world: Kanye West & Kim Kardashian are guarded by Pascal Duvier, an Austrian Judo Champion. Duvier has over 35 years of experience in Judo and was a...

Shia LaBeouf Has Cauliflower Ears in Latest Movie ‘Tax Collector’

Hollywood superstar Shia LaBeouf (Transformers trilogy) will surprise many in his latest film: The Tax Collector which comes out this month. He plays the role of a debt collector working for the...