.
.

Category Archive: Articles

Task Oriented Competitor or Ego Oriented Competitor?

  Why do you compete? Is it because you enjoy the journey and for self development or is it because you want to be the best and really because of ego? When an athlete sets a goal, it’s a...

The 10 Types Of Grapplers That You Meet At The Academy

  You will surely recognise yourself or your training partners in this funny video by Jean Machado!    

Jo Calderwood Reveals Long Struggle With Depression, Giving Up Alcohol

  Jo Calderwood is a Scottish Muay thai champion and a current UFC competitor at strawweight. She last faced Cynthia Calvillo in a strawweight bout on 16th July. Calderwood lost the fight via a...

Why You Should Know About Rickson Gracie’s Connection Principle

    SBG Black Belt Cane Prevost was just one of the many black belts that were there to learn from one of the greatest bjj practitioners of all time Rickson Gracie. Rickson Gracie’s...

Garry Tonon Announces He’ll Be Doing Combat Jiu-Jitsu At Next EBI

      Garry Tonon is the reigning EBI light heavyweight champion having secured the title after filling in for Gordon Ryan and subsequently out-strategizing Vinny Magalhaes. However...

Marcio “Pe de Pano” Set to Replace Roger Gracie In IBJJF Grand Prix

    Last year the first IBJJF Grand Prix came to be during the UFC Expo surrounding UFC 200. The worlds most intimidating heavyweights all got to vie for a 50.000$ in cash prizes. This year...

Joe Rogan On Trans Issues: I don’t Mind Until It becomes A Sports Competition Between Genders

    Joe Rogan is one of the most vocal advocates of bjj in the world. In addition to this he’s of course many other things including UFC commentator, comedian, actor and youtube...

2x Olympic Judo Champion Arrested Under Suspicion For Pedophilia

  A two time Olympic Judo Champion Peter Seisenbacher was arrested in Kiev, Ukraine on sexual assault charges Kiev News reports. He had been hiding there after being accused of committing sexual...

Retired Wrestling Coach Receives Medal Of Honor

    James C. McCloughan, 71, of South Haven, Mich. was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Donald J. Trump in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on July 31. McCloughan was an Army...

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...