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Category Archive: Articles

Marcelo Garcia: When You See Someone Not Passing Good Energy I Think The Instructor Has To Try To See To That

Marcelo Garcia is an outstanding competitor. There are many who consider him best pound-for-pound Jiu-Jitsu practitioner on the planet today. His athletic accomplishments are paired with a positive...

Toronto BJJ Tournament Happens In spite Of Warning Letter and Police Presence

picture credit: shotbyjoey   In February it was first reported that some BJJ tournaments were post poned and canceled after Canada started applying Section 83 of Canada’s Criminal Code. As we...

Two-time European Junior Wrestling Champ Dies as A Result Of Stabbing in Russia

    European junior freestyle wrestling champion Yury Vlasko tragically lost his life Staruday Morning in Russia. He was found dead on Saturnday morning outside the city of Ulan-Ude. A...

Grad Student Designs Study Questioning How Much BJJ Helps With Coping With Stress

    BJJ is a relatively new martial art. As such it’s especially interesting to observe in a scientific manner or in such studies. One such study is what Turkish Sports...

Dana White Slams Woodley For Maia Performance, Gives GSP Back To Bisping

    The entire bjj community rallied around Demian Maia’s title shot. Maia who was often mistreated by the promotion found himself in an unenviable position after a very short fight...

Teens Ouster IBJJF Proven Athletes at the 1st Edition Of All Girl EBI

    EBI just concluded it’s 12th edition – this one unique for featuring an all women tournament for the huge cash prize and the Combat jiu-jitsu mini tournament featuring women...

5x World Champ Bernardo Faria: 5 Things to Avoid In the Half-Guard

  Guest post by 5x BJJ World Champion Bernardo Faria, who is known for his half guard. He achieved a phenomenal double gold medals in the BJJ Mundials in 2015. Be sure to check out Bernardo’s...

Henderson To Debut in Rizin Grappling against Kazushi Sakuraba

    Dan Henderson will be grappling once again later this year. After a cool performance earlier in the year at Submission Underground Henderson and Sakuraba will be grappling at Rizin FF...

Steve Maxwell Mobility Conditioning for Combat Sport Seminar in Sarajevo, Bosnia September 23rd

Steve Maxwell  will be coming to Sarajevo, Bosnia and he’s ready to share some knowledge! The seminar’s theme is: Mobility Conditioning for Martial Arts & Combat Sport. It will be held...

Gabi Garcia Pokes Opponent Eye Accidentally In First 10 Seconds and Gets No Contest

    Gabi Garcia has had a very strange month. Her latest bout was declared non contest after an accidental eye poke she did while trying to kick the Russian boxer. After about 2 minutes it...

World Reacts To Woodley and Maia Outcome

    Tyron Woodley has been saying for weeks he doesn’t believe Maia will able to take him down and training partner Ben Askren back him up. But one way or another Maia sure did try...

How To Train So You Can One Day Fight In The UFC

Guest post by Mark Lajhner founder and chief instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy  and of mmacoach.net. Mark is a Judo black belt (Serbian national team member), Wrestler, BJJ purple belt, MMA coach...

Jose Aldo Grappled in Master 1 Light Weight Quarter Final

  Earlier this month we reported Jose Aldo is looking forward to returning to the grappling competitive scene. Just that happened earlier today when Aldo grappled in the Master 1 Light...

Purple Belt Max Holloway Rolling With Black Belt Instructor

    Just this past January featherweight champion Max Holloway was promoted to bjj purple belt.   A post shared by Brian Butler-Au (@suckerpunchent) on Jan 17, 2017 at 10:47pm PST...

Chris Haueter On Evolution Of the Closed Guard

  Chris Haueter (Rigan Machado)  Chris is best known for his innovative teaching style and conceptual coaching ability and naming of new positions as the art rapidly developed in the mid...

Woodley Claims Maia was Twitching During StareDown

    Tyron Woodley keeps on trying to wage a psychological war against jiu-jitsu guru Demian Maia. The latest is the statement that Maia was twitching during the staredown. via MMA Fighting:...

Demian Maia: If I Didn’t Accept The Match, UFC Would’ve Moved On

    It seems like the odds are stacked against 39 year old Demian Maia as he moves for his welterweight title shot following a very impressive winning streak.   Maia told sherdog:...

ADCC Has A New Superfight for Renzo Gracie – Sanae Kikuta

    Legendary mma figure Matt Hughes was struck by an oncoming train in his pick up truck earlier last month. This has rendered him unable to match Renzo Gracie in previously scheduled ADCC...

39 yrs Old & Still testing Himself in the Adults- the story of Gilmar Oliveira

Gilmar Oliveira is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt who is a role model for many BJJ practitioners around the capital city of Brazil, Brasília. He is 39 yrs old and works full time as a security...

Buchecha on Roger Gracie match: “I got it wrong and I paid the price”

  A jiu-jitsu match for the ages happened over the weekend and it was quite a revelation in eyes of many jiu-jiteiros. One person that was affected the most arguably is Marcus Almeida Buchecha,...

Eddie Bravo Reveals How Weed Influenced His Jiu-Jitsu and Life That Lead Him To Start 10th Planet

    Eddie Bravo is known for a variety of things, but perhaps none as famous as his Royler Gracie upset he managed to pull of way back in 2003 at ADCC. What you might not know is that prior...

Cris Cyborg Rolls Hard With Man over At Cobrinha’s

    Cris Cyborg is a force to be reckoned with in many ways. Her choice of sparring partner alone would be enough to intimidate any female competitor, and let’s be honest – many...

Erberth Santos Likely Replacement For Roger Gracie in IBJJF GP

    Roger Gracie rendered the entire community speechless this weekend at Gracie Pro when he submitted Buchecha without a hitch. Roger Gracie used the opportunity to announce his retirement...

Purple Belt Ruby Chung Puts Trespasser To Sleep

  It’s been a peculiar time for bjj Purple Belt Ruby Chung. According to news reports she was put in a situation where she had to put her bjj mastery to good use and defend her property....