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Category Archive: Articles

Defending Takedowns Against The Cage

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...

127 lbs Bruno Malfacine Proves That Size Is Not An Issue In Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu

For smaller grapplers out there in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world, things can be a little tricky when you enter competitions and step onto the mat to see that your opponent is a hulking figure, almost...

The Importance of Strategy In Your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training!

Photo: Kim Hovgaard of Aalborg Jiu-Jitsu Academy/ About Aalborg Selvforsvar & Ju-Jitsu Klub You can be the meanest, strongest guy on the mat come competition time, but does it really matter if...

Company Sells Artificially Aged Martial Arts Belts Online

In martial arts like BJJ, Judo or Karate, you will often see instructors with very old black belts that have lost their black colour and actually look white. This shows all the years of hard work,...

How To Do The Infamous Seatbelt Neck Crank

Guest post by Mark Lajhner, founder and chief instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. He is a Judo black belt (Serbian national team member), BJJ purple belt and multiple medallist in...

Dramatically Improve Your Ability To Finish From The Back with Marcelo Garcia

Here are some of the key details to make your seat belt from the back a whole lot more dangerous and start finishing more chokes just like Marcelo Garcia. These no-gi techniques were perfected by...

Ex-Navy Seal Commander & BJJ Black Belt Jocko Willink on How To Avoid Injuries in BJJ

Hooray, you just made a decision to start training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! BJJ will introduce great things to your life, such as: better health, stronger self-confidence, awesome friendships, the...

Pressure Pass Straight To Mount, With Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida

Jiu Jitsu doesn’t have to be complicated in order to work… In fact, most often it’s the basic principles and techniques which will grant success! It’s just a matter of tying...

5 Tips To Make Intermittent Fasting Work For You

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...

3 Things Your Martial Arts Instructors Wish You Did Before, During, and After Class

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...

Research Finds Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners To Be The Least Aggressive Martial Artists

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is more than a sport, for most of frequent practitioners – it’s a way of life. It can also be a way to change your life. You hear of people who claim to lead the BJJ...

10 Superfoods To Amp Up Your Weight Loss

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...

Do Grapplers Need Bench Press?

Written by Matt D’Aquino, a multiple Australian and Oceania Champion and a 2008 Beijing Judo Olympian. He has been studying Judo for over 23 years. He is a 4th Degree Black belt and a black belt in...

10 Best Stretches For Jiu-Jitsu

Flexibility is so important in Jiu-Jitsu because it really makes all the vast number of techniques much easier to do (for ex gogoplata, inverted guard etc..). Increasing flexibility is going to help...

10 Best Strength Building Exercises For Fighters

Strength is your base and everything is build on top of it. In order to improve at other physical attributes and in your overall performance you must build strength. Funk Roberts goes through the...

‘Shoulder of Justice’: The Ultimate Crossface Pressure in BJJ

What is the infamous ‘Shoulder of Justice’? When you are in top side control, cup their head with your hand and start “crossfacing” with your shoulder. Their head should be...

Home Services: How to Choose?

One of the major aspects of home care and maintenance is home cleaning. In today’s world, it is very difficult for families to keep their home clean on a regular basis. Since most homeowners have...

Dream Camp w/ Buchecha, Rodolfo, Lo, Preguica in Swiss Alps

This amazing camp with 4 of the biggest BJJ stars is going to blow you away! Imagine learning and training with Leandro Lo, Marcus Buchecha, Felipe Pena and Rodolfo Vieira? The Swiss Alps Camp is the...

Rare Footage: Jocko Willink Grapples Jeff Monson

The Baddest Man in the BJJ World is Jocko Willink. From September of 1990 to 2010 Willink was a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander and Seal Task Unit Commander leading hundreds of operations in combat. He...

Russian BJJ Black Belt Who Defeated Khabib Nurmagomedov Grapples a Lioness

Leonid Gatovskiy (first Russian BJJ Black Belt and leader Lion Baza club Russia) famously defeated Khabib in a grappling match in 2009. Leonid is actually a BJJ black belt under Renzo Gracie: Be sure...

(Funny) What Goes On in Your Head When Rolling in BJJ

  Jiu-Jitsu is like chess on the mat. If you don’t think, then forget about it. Roger Gracie   Lots of crazy thing go through our brain during a roll:  

Strength Training For Jiu-Jitsu? Not as Simple as You Think!

By Peter Lakatos -Strength coach for Carlson Gracie Hungary & StrongFirst Master instructor In the future you will read a lot of articles on various BJJ magazines and sites on strength training,...

Watch: What Happens When You Don’t Tap to a Banana Split

The banana split is a groin stretch submission where the attacking grappler stretches the defending grappler’s legs apart using both their arms and legs. It is an extremely painful submission....

Judo Gene LeBell: “Wrestling is The Ancestor of Jiu-Jitsu, Judo & Sambo.

Gene LeBell is an American Judoka, instructor, stunt performer, and professional wrestler born. He has also worked on over 1,000 films and TV shows.  In 2000, the United States Ju-Jitsu Federation...