Understanding BJJ Knee Injuries
Mar 16, 2020BJJEE
One of the most stressful injuries for an athlete to get is knee pain. Fingers, toes, and other scuffles we sort of get over easy but through pop culture we’re used to seeing knee injuries in a...
Tom DeBlass & Saulo Ribeiro’s Easy Plate Workout For BJJ
Mar 16, 2020BJJEE
You don’t need to have fancy equipment to build yourself an endless gas tank and strength on the Jiu Jitsu mats. Simple exercises and minimal equipment that work the whole body are more than...
What Does The Way You Roll Say About Your Personality?
Mar 16, 2020BJJEE
Can you determine someone’s personality by the way they roll in class? And if not, what can you determine? Some people I’ve encountered think that personality transfers completely into one’s...
How To Get Better at Jiu-Jitsu While You’re Not Allowed to Train Due To Coronavirus
Mar 16, 2020BJJEE
What to do when your BJJ academy is closed because the Coronavirus? How can you get better while you forced to stay home? Here are 5 ways to get better at Jiu Jitsu while you’re not allowed to...
Mind & Body: How to Best Recover from Extreme Training Sessions
Mar 16, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Vladimir Popovic, black belt judo, black belt bjj, master degree in sport science and exercise. Strength and condition coach, specialty – martial arts. A large number...
No Training Partner? How To Drill Your Takedowns With A Heavy Bag & Solo Drills
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
The Grappling workout videos below are a great example of these grappling specific conditioning you can get done at home with some simple set-ups and creativity. You can use a heavy bag to work on...
Improving Your Grappling Game Through Solo Drilling
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
When we think about training and getting on the mat to put in some hours of work, we tend to think about being able to hit certain submissions and dominating our opponent. While this plays a very...
5 Things Nobody Tells You When You Start Training BJJ
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
Although BJJ is great there are some inconveniences you need to be prepared for. Here are some things I wish someone had told me when I was the new guy at the academy. Some beginnings are very...
50 Ways How NOT to Become a State Wrestling Champion
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
50 plus Ways Not to Become a State Champion. Written by Palmer Wrestling 1. Get a girlfriend during the wrestling season and break-up every other weekend. 2. Skip a wrestling tournament...
Bulgarian Bag: Improve your Grappling Conditioning, Endurance & Conditioning
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Will Safford, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach who trains under Andre Galvao in San Diego, CA. He received is purple belt in December of 2013 and competes occasionally in...
Academy Closed? Do These BJJ Solo Drills with Your Belt
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
As we all know Jiu-Jitsu practice requires a partner and mats. However your BJJ academy might be currently closed you may miss some time on the mats. In this video Mike Bidwell from BJJAfter...
Youtube Celebrity Logan Paul Actually Held His Own Wrestling Paulo Costa
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
Youtube star Logan Paul was recently on the mats with UFC fighter Paulo Costa at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas. Logan Paul who has more than 20 million subscribers on Youtube and is a...
No Partner, No Problem: BJJ Solo Drilling Collection
Mar 15, 2020BJJEE
We are all addicted to BJJ and can never get enough. The only problem is that BJJ drilling requires a partner. Mike Bidwell from BJJAfter 40 shows some great solo drills when you don’t have a...
Youtube Celebrity Logan & Jake Paul Wrestling Matches
Mar 15, 2020grappler z
Youtube superstar brothers Logan and Jake Paul have more than 28 million subscribers on the video channel and have been all over the news with the outrageous pranks. The older brother, Jake Paul ran...
5 Submissions From Mount That Should Be In Your Arsenal
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
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...
Would the BJJ ‘Worlds’ Still Be The Same If They Were Still Held In Brazil?
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
The IBJJF Worlds aka The Mundials as they were once called, have been held in the US since 2007. Before that, they had been held at the Tijuca Tenis Clube in Rio De Janeiro from their first edition...
8 Events That Shocked the BJJ Community
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
Most people know how BJJ was created, why, by whom, who influenced it, etc… In this article we will look at the history of BJJ from a different angle. We will look at 10 events/changing points...
5 Things Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Teaches You About Life
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
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...
Tom DeBlass On Loyalty in Jiu-Jitsu
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
Last year, a video of Rickson Gracie emerged where the BJJ legend was asked to give his opinion on people that cross train at various BJJ academies at the same time, in order to maximize their...
12 Best BJJ Academies To Visit In Rio De Janeiro
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
I came across a list of top 8 BJJ Academies to visit in Rio made from Gameness. It’s hard to single out just 8 academies in Rio. I spent 2 months training there in 2002, and I was amazed at how...
10 Signs You Are Obsessed With Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
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...
What If You Don’t Like Modern Guards?
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter Cascao Vital. He runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. What If You Don’t Like Sports Guards? There are so many styles and ways...
Meet the Open Mat Squad, 5 Days a Week with Partners From Different Academies
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
Go to any BJJ or MMA event and other than the usual cauliflower ear and “Jiu Jitsu Saves” tattoos, you will come across a sea of multi-coloured tops and bottoms with logos of various fight wear...
BJJ Academy Etiquette & Unwritten Rules
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
By Guillaume (Gile) Huni, BJJ black belt and head instructor of Kimura Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. Each BJJ academy has their own set of specific rules. Some schools require students to face...
