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Category Archive: Articles

Prevent Your Opponents From Standing In Your Closed Guard By Doing This

Your closed guard is only as effective as your ability to use it for sweeps, transitions and submissions is… However, it’s only as useful as your ability to preserve it when your...

The Pros And Cons Of The IBJJF Points System

Guest post by Evolve Mixed Martial Arts®, Asia’s top martial arts organization. It is our mission to deliver the best martial arts instruction available anywhere on the planet. Our award-winning...

Legendary Gym Stories: When Liborio Wiped out the Carlson Gracie Competition Team

On August 28th and 29th 2015, at the ADCC in Sao Paulo, two legends of Jiu-Jitsu which were formed by the late Carlson Gracie will lock horns: Ricardo Liborio and Mario Sperry.   In an interview...

John Danaher Talks One Sureway Of Speeding Up Your BJJ Progress

  Speeding up one’s progress is a preoccupation for almost every person who starts training jiu-jitsu. There are no easy solutions to this conundrum.   However one of the best coaches...

Quick Fixes For Improving Your Weakest Link : Flexibility, Strength, Conditioning…

 Written for BJJEE.com by the awesome BJJ Athlete Strength & Conditioning – BredaS&C, Check out their facebook page   Armour, chain-mail a bulletproof vest. That’s what your...

Winners Never Quit – Quitters Never Win! Why You Should Never Quit Jiu-Jitsu

Written by Carl Fisher aka the Fighting photographer, who has a great blog (check it out) Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an awesome martial art and for me, it has taken me all over the world, to places I...

How To Set Up Leg Grab Takedowns in BJJ

BJJ uses a mixture of Judo and Wrestling style takedowns. It is very common to see leg grab takedowns in BJJ, which are common in Wrestling and now banned in Judo. Setting up leg grabs with the Gi is...

The Ultimate Guide To Breakfalls & Avoiding Injuries

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...

5 Tips For Wrestlers Transitioning To BJJ

Photo: Leon Sandoval www.heyleon.com, Instagram @heyleonmedia and Facebook.com/heyleonmedia   Guest post by Reed Shelger, the owner of Paradigm Training Center in Houston, TX.  He was an...

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Passing Someone’s Guard

Written by Masafumi Matsumoto, a BJJ black belt from Japan who has been traveling the world, training, competing and working as a translator. ‘Masa’ is known for having a very good guard,...

Change your Mindset, Change your Jiu-Jitsu

Photo: Leon Sandoval www.heyleon.com, Instagram @heyleonmedia and Facebook.com/heyleonmedia   I’m watching with an attentive stare. I want to make sure I absorb every aspect of this...

Bigger, Stronger, Faster: Chemical ‘Super Heroes’ of Jiu-Jitsu

Guest post by Felipe Costa, black belt BJJ world champion, head of Brazilian Black Belt Academy in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Since a young age we are learn to love and worship superheroes; even more so...

Renzo Gracie’s Valuable Lesson: Real Respect vs Superficial Respect

The great John Danaher talked a great lesson that he learned from his instructor Renzo Gracie. This is a valuable lesson of life, and about real respect: Reflections on my sensei – real respect...

How To Set Up an Outside Trip Off The Cage

Nowadays most MMA organizations are using a cage or octagon rather than a boxing ring so it’s very important to know how to use the cage to your advantage when setting up your takedowns. In...

How to Tap a Super-Defensive Judoka?

    We’ve all been in those pesky situations where we’re competing against an experienced judoka. A quick example comes to mind, Judo Brown Belt and BJJ White Belt Tayanara...

Enough with Running in Circles: More Efficient Warm Ups For BJJ

Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter Cascao Vital. He runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv.   We all know it too well, you step on the mat and run in circles...

How To Prioritize Muscle Groups for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

How should competitors prioritize their time in order to develop these attributes? What are they, and what order should they be ranked in? Here is a quick guide to the key physical attributes any BJJ...

Cyborg Will Have Open Heart Surgery in 2020

ADCC champion Roberto ‘Cyborg’ Abreu did it again this weekend. He conquered his 6th No Gi world championship in dominating fashion. After a dissappointing ADCC campaign this is a sweet...

The 3 Best BJJ Takedowns For Beginners

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...

Using Timing To Overcome Speed

Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter Cascao Vital. He runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. We all know that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gives an opportunity for the smaller,...

Geo Martinez Gives Advice For Struggling White Belts

When you are a BJJ white belt, you will often be on a emotional roller coaster ride. You have to deal with constantly getting smashed in training by everyone, and often find yourself wondering why do...

The Missing Details To The Controversial Arm-in Stack Pass That Confuses Newbies

The traditional beginner Gracie Jiu-Jitsu guard pass where you stack your opponent and put one hand in and one hand out and pass to the side is still being thought widely in BJJ academies. Now, many...

Craig Jones’ Heavy Duty Side Smash Pass

Craig Jones is known in the grappling circles as the guy who came out of nowhere and submitted huge stars Leandro Lo, Murilo Santana and even the UFC’s Chael Sonnen at the 2017 ADCC. He...

Heavyweights, This is How You Should Train To Improve in BJJ

In Jiu Jitsu, we often hear stories of the smaller technical guy beating the bigger, stronger guy. This started in UFC 1 and will continue for probably however long grappling (and by default...