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Category Archive: Articles

How To Convince Your Girlfriend To Try Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is kind of an all consuming lifestyle. Having a significant other outside of it could present a serious challenge so why not try to put two and two together! Here are some useful...

UAE Jiu-Jitsu Team Returns To Active Training & Prepares For Upcoming World Pro Championship

The coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the world and all major sports, but some sports are looking for ways to work around it. The United Arab Emirates’ national jiu-jitsu team is attempting...

BJJ Black Belt Promotion Turns Out To Be a Beautiful Marriage Proposal

  Getting promoted to black belt in BJJ is a big deal and a very emotional and nerve wracking experience. Now, combine that with an ever more emotional marriage proposal and you are sure to cry...

3 Not-So-Obvious Ways Joining A BJJ Gym Will Change Your Life

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...

Bernardo Faria Answers “What Is The Biggest Mistake That White Belts Make In BJJ?”

BJJ is all about having a strong posture and pressuring your opponent, at a fundamental level. You might think that a strong posture is simple to maintain, but it really isn’t. There are so many...

Surprise Your Opponents With This Triangle Setup From Side Control

If you can surprise your opponents with a move they don’t really expect, then your chances of tapping them out increase by tenfold! One of those setups is a Triangle Choke from top Side...

Yoga for BJJ: Gezary Matuda in Lockdown Home Yoga Flow

Most BJJ players tend to focus mainly on strength and conditioning rather than flexibility. Flexibility is so important in Jiu-Jitsu because it really makes all the vast number of techniques much...

Lachlan Giles Has A Secret Detail For Improving Your Half Guard Squeeze

Ever been in a situation where you think that you have your opponent right where you want them… Only for them to escape within the next second, in such an easy manner that it kind of feels...

BJJ Black Belt & Doctor’s 6 Step Guidelines for Reopening BJJ Academies During COVID-19

The current COVID-19 situation in the world is a very serious one; people are getting sick, oftentimes critically, and countries are attempting to fight the disease by going through extreme lockdown...

Jiu Jitsu’s Impact in the Middle East: Breaking Barriers For Women

Jiu-Jitsu is helping to break barriers and taboos all across the globe. What Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has done in some Middle Eastern countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, the UAE and many more is almost...

Build Yourself A Perfect Home Gym Like Jocko Willink’s

So, you’ve decided to build your own home gym! You may be too busy to spend those 30 minutes on a car ride just to get to your „regular“ gym; or you may have always wanted to have a home...

Russell Peters On How He Cross Collar Choked a Heckler & Got Sued

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...

Being Big: Is It an Advantage or Disadvantage in Jiu-Jitsu?

In Jiu-Jitsu technique usually defeats size, but we also know that when the size has technique then it can be huge advantage taking into account the law of gravity. Therefore most big guys will have...

Why Chael Sonnen Is Wrong About Judo Effectiveness In MMA

Chael Sonnen is considered to be one of the best mixed martial artists that UFC has seen in its history. Having retired from competition, he shifted his focus to being a host of his great Podcast....

Travis Stevens’ 5 Best Grip Sleeve Breaks For Judo & BJJ. So Easy A White Belt Can Do It

You can’t deny that a vice-like grip for BJJ or Judo is definitely an advantage. It not only will help you control your opponent, but it also opens many opportunities to transition to attacks...

Should I Cut Weight To Perform Better in BJJ Competitions?

They say the first and most important battle for each and every fighter is the one with the scale. Martial arts and combat sports competitors are notorious with their extreme weight cutting which...

250lb Bodybuilder Tries His Luck with 150lbs Jiu-Jitsu World Champion Matheus Gabriel

It is not uncommon to see a much lighter and shorter athlete facing a much bigger and taller opponent in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and grappling. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art created for smaller...

BJJ Black Belt Doctor Answers Question: ‘Is Knee Reaping Dangerous?’

Leg/knee reaping when doing a foot lock is a very controversial topic in BJJ today. Some say that the act of reaping the leg is dangerous and can injure the knee, whilst others such as Ryan Hall say...

The Power of Jiu-Jitsu: Rooster Weight Defeats Ultra Heavyweight in Brown Belt Match

It is not uncommon to see a shorter athlete combating a much bigger and taller opponent in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Anyway, it is widely believed, and Royce Gracie proved it in the early UFC events, that...

MMA Guard & BJJ Guard: How To Use The Guard in Both Scenarios

Written by Gerry Young, BJJ brown belt based in Tasmania, author of  gerrybjj.blogspot.com.au . Please ‘LIKE’ his Facebook page . After a recent discussion with a student on tactics in...

Will Skittles Make You Better At Jiu Jitsu?

Guest post by Tyler Bishop, BJJ black belt and instructor and editor at bishopbjj.com Wait, what? This can’t be a real article, can it? The idea of the popular junk food candy Skittles improving a...

Giant Killer: Tips On How To Beat Bigger Grapplers

By Guillaume (Gile) Huni, BJJ black belt and head instructor of Kimura Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. There is always someone out there that is bigger and stronger than you. When we were white belts...

Here’s How BJJ Strengthens Both Your Body And Mind

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...

4 Unexpected Lessons You’ll Learn In A BJJ Gym

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...