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Category Archive: Articles

Position Before Submission: 4 Things You Need To Know

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...

Zabit MagomedSharipov Spars with a Goat To Keep His Skills Sharp

With the current worldwide lockdown, MMA phenom Zabit Magomedsharipov is keeping his skills sharp by sparring with a…Goat. 🐐 Meanwhile… Zabit is sparring with a goat!@zabeast_mma 😅...

12 Reasons Why The BJJ Lifestyle Is The Fountain Of Youth

You don’t stop training Jiu-Jitsu when you get old, You get old when you stop training Jiu-Jitsu. Do you grappler, want to feel forever young? Very simple. Train Jiu-Jitsu, live the Jiu-Jitsu...

Rickson Gracie’s Message Of Hope For All Those Currently Going Through Hard Times

As the World is battling the new Coronavirus, many friends and family have fallen sick. The economic situation is also disastrous with 6.65 million people having filed for unemployment benefits in...

The Maxwell 300 Kettlebell Workout for Grapplers

Kettlebells have been around for over 100 years but unfortunately they are still being under utilized in gyms around the world. All grapplers should use kettlebells on a regular basis because they...

Top 5 Superfoods to Boost Your Jiu Jitsu

Superfoods are a special category of foods found in nature. By definition they are calorie sparse and nutrient dense meaning they pack a lot of punch for their weight as far as goodness goes. They...

8 Best Fat Burning Foods To Boost Your Jiu-Jitsu Performance

Have you ever wished that eating right would help you lose weight? Combined with regular BJJ training, these super foods will help you shed the pounds and become a better grappler. There is however...

World’s First Ever Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Video Game To Be Released Second Half of 2020

In today’s reality were most the majority of BJJ practitioners are quarantined at hom, you will be able to practice Jiu-Jitsu and even compete against great rivals from all over the planet. The...

Use The Samurai Grip To Set Up Attacks In The Gi

If there were one most important thing to do at the beginning of a BJJ match, then it would be to establish some sort of control and dominance over your opponent, as soon as possible. And if...

Cobrinha’s Recipe For Success & How Starting BJJ at 21 yrs Old Was a Good Thing

5x world BJJ champion and Storm Kimonos athlete Rubens Charles Cobrinha is one of the most decorated grapplers active on the scene today. Cobirnha is also famous for the late start he’s gotten...

Smart Training & Lifestyle Tips for BJJ Practitioners Over 30

Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter Cascao Vital. He runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. Back in the day not too long ago, people used to have the mind set that the...

5 Powerful Submissions That You Can Do From Rubber Guard

The Rubber Guard is a closed guard system, made popular by 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu founder, Eddie Bravo. The Rubber Guard focuses on clinching your opponent and keeping them guessing what you are...

Can’t Train? Robert Drysdale Explains The Power Of Visualization For Jiu-Jitsu

There’s a possibility that you’ve already spent a few weeks in a self-imposed quarantine, isolated and being away from your BJJ academy; away from Jiu Jitsu classes. How much longer will this...

Gordon Ryan Has a Great Counter To The Rubber Guard

The Rubber Guard is a closed guard system, developed by 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu founder, Eddie Bravo. The Rubber Guard focuses on clinching your opponent and keeping them guessing what you are trying...

Ground and Pound vs Grappling Experiment feat. Garry Tonon & Gordon Ryan

  In BJJ, you are always taught how to defend yourself from the bottom position, but you are rarely taught what to do when somebody is on top of you and punching the life out of you. When you...

Enjoy This Hour Long Seminar with Royce Gracie

UFC Hall of Famer and current Bellator MMA brand ambassador Royce Gracie has his name forever written in the history of MMA. He offered a free 1 hour Gracie Jiu-Jitsu seminar on the Bellator Youtube...

Enjoy Mikey Musumeci facing Mahamed Aly or the Clash of David with Goliath

Courtesy of flograppling, we can watch the whole match of the black belt open weight division between former world champion super-heavyweight Mahamed Aly and 3x world champion rooster/light...

Should I Use Illegal BJJ Techniques In Training?

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an ocean, full of wonderful techniques! However, some of those techniques can’t be used in certain competitions. Whether you have a certain belt, at the level of which...

Four Things That COVID-19 Will Change About BJJ In The Future

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...

Roger Gracie Details Battle with Coronavirus: ‘I Had High Fever For 8 Days & Pain in Lungs’

One of the biggest names in the history of competitive jiu-jitsu and former UFC fighter, Roger Gracie – living in London, England for years – was infected with the new coronavirus in March. And...

Understanding The 5 Motor Skills Required For Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Performance

Written by Vladimir Popovic, Judo and BJJ black belt, Master in Sports instructor at Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Singapore, master degree in sport science and exercise. Strength and condition coach, specialty...

The Best Early Triangle Choke Escape

  To escape a triangle choke, the defending practitioner must first elevate and turn the head so as the preclude the full force of the submission, subsequently the practitioner must bring his...

Advice from Legends: Robson Moura & Marcelo Garcia on How They Prepare for a Competition

BJJ champions Robson Moura and Marcelo Garcia have so much competition experience. Here Robson Moura talks about preparation for the competition and Marcelo talks about what he does the week before...

3 Ways to Protect Your fingers When Training BJJ and Judo

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 3rd Degree Black belt and a black belt in...