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Category Archive: Articles, Videos

Simple Solo Drills To Improve your Judo Throws

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 in Judo and a black...

BJJ Academy Closed? Try This 1 Hour Solo Drill Routine from 4X BJJ World Champion Rikako Yuasa

Solo drills are great for supplemental BJJ training or when there isn’t a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu school nearby or when it’s closed because the Coronavirus… 4 times BJJ world champion...

Exercise: The Original Path to Character

Guest post by Sam Yang. He is a brown belt under Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles Maciel and writes about martial arts and philosophy at MustTriumph.com Physical exertion was and still is the...

Why Training BJJ With Your Loved One Is Great For You

  BJJ Can Deepen the Feelings Of Attachment and Bring you Closer Together From a chemical standpoint mixing true love of bjj with the follies of romantic love makes perfect sense. Oxytocin, the...

5 Essential Strength & Conditioning Principles For Grapplers

  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 in Judo and a black...

Dealing with Constant Back Pain In BJJ

Back pain can be a major issue for many people.  It affects about 80% of the population.  Having back pain can make it difficult to train or compete.  One of the main causes of back pain is poor...

Rampage Jackson Slams BJJ – “Kickboxing is The Best For Self Defense!”

Apparently Quinton Jackson is a bjj doubter. One recent instagram exchange revealed he considers kickboxing the best method for self defense to this date. View post on imgur.com Over the years,...

Jocko Willink Don’t Count On Motivation, Count on Discipline!

    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 earned his Black Belt in Brazilian...

BJJ Globetrotters Founder Christian Graugart Adresses IBJJF Ban & Future Plans

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotters offer a de-centralized alternative to the traditional affiliation system of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. They have a fundamental emphasis on promoting a non-political...

How To Organize a BJJ Trip To Brazil on a Budget

Planning a training trip to Brazil is as expensive as you want to make it. If you’re on a budget, here are two of my best tips to still be able to go and live the jiu jitsu lifestyle: Getting the...

Andre Galvao Compares Non-Competitors & Competitors in BJJ

  Andre Galvao has a huge list of credits. He’s the leader of one of the most successful teams in sport bjj today – Atos. Atos was founded in 2008 by 3x World Champion and 6xADCC...

How Ryron Gracie Likes To Deal With The Infamous ‘Stack Pass’

    The stack pass when done correctly is a formidable weapon. Even a very flexible guard player will struggle to recompose guard if the guard passer is able to set up the grips and move in...

How To Make Your Submissions Tighter and More Powerful

Everybody wants to make their submissions tighter and more powerful, but few know how easy it is to do so! If you apply the concepts of extension, rotation and compression shown by Rob Biernacki, you...

This Is Why Your Upa – Your Bridge And Roll Technique – Doesn’t Work

Let’s keep it real: there have been lots of times when you were stuck in your training partner’s or opponent’s Mount when you’ve resorted to doing the bridge and roll...

This Is Why Your Pressure Passing Fails

Pressure passing looks cool, doesn’t it? Certainly you’ve tried it at least a couple of times, only to find out that your training partners can control the distance and retain their Guard...

Top 15 Celebrity BJJ Black Belts

    14.Mauricio Mattar  Mauricio Mattar is a brazilian actor. He is a black belt under the Gracie Barra banner. 13. Rhasaan Orange Rhasaan Orange  is an American actor. Orange is most...

Top 5 Self Defense Jiu-Jitsu Techniques Against Punches or Grabs

  Here are 5 favorite and proven jiu-jitsu techniques that anyone can use in a street situation for self defense and protection. Brazilian Jiu jitsu is the perfect martial art for self defense...

Kidnapped Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters On Women’s Self Defense Training And How She Saved Herself

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is a South African model – she was crowned Miss Universe 2017. She told page six: “I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa,” says the New York...

‘No Touch KO’ Master Goes To BJJ Academy, Fails Miserably

  Touchless knockout or no-touch knockout is a supposed technique claimed by some martial arts practitioners, by which a person can be rendered unconscious solely by application...

Is There Really Such Thing as The ‘Right Way’ To Do a Grappling Technique?

That’s right, you read the title correctly. As strange as that may come off, there is really no right or wrong in BJJ and Grappling in general, unless, of course, the technique you’re trying to...

MMA Fighters Try Women’s Self-Defense Techniques

When you attempt to get your self defense training from some sketchy videos, you can expect the worst to happen in the real world… How about what happens when you try those online self defense...

The Art of the Double Leg: Jordan Burroughs Takedown Study

Jordan Burroughs is perhaps the most recognizable wrestler in the United States. 30 year old Burroughs began wrestling when he was 5 years old. In 2012 he became an Olympic Gold Medalist by defeating...

Most Common Types of BJJ Academies: The Good, Bad & Ugly

Written by Johan De Wannemaeker brown belt from Prana BJJ Academia. So you decided to give Brazilian jiu jitsu a try…and you loved it right away. Now you are seriously considering training a...

Wrestle from The Guard: Nicky Ryan’s Buttscoot-Takedown

In this year’s ADCC match against Shane Jamil Hill-Taylor, Nicky Ryan displayed a great and kind of a confusing technique: starting from the bottom seated position, he scored a sweep that...