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Category Archive: Articles, Competitions/Tournaments, Featured

Zagreb International Pro Jiu-Jitsu Championship: 51 Travel Packages to Tokyo & London Grand Slam

It is with great pleasure that we announce the first UAEJJF event of the 2017/2018 season: ZAGREB INTERNATIONAL PRO JIU-JITSU CHAMPIONSHIP in Zagreb, Croatia, organized by the UAE Jiu-Jitsu...

Dana White Comments On The Rise of Mackenzie Dern in MMA

BJJ world champion Mackenzie Dern is in a notorious mood given her newly acquired record of going 3-0 in mma. Over the weekend Dern got the chance to try her hand at striking and sparred over 3...

Lessons From Rickson Gracie: Connection, ‘Tighten The Rope’

  Guest post by Brandon Hetzler  who is a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black bet under Rickson & Kron Gracie, 7 and creator of Jugoshin Ryu JuJutsu.   “Tighten the rope”. This was...

Controversial BJJ Champion Dillon Danis Signs With Bellator MMA

  BJJ champion Dillon Danis will be making his much awaited MMA debut at Bellator MMA.  Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports was the first to break the news. Danis had an eventful past few months, he...

Mackenzie Dern: I’ll Try To Follow In Conor McGregor’s Footsteps!

    Mackenzie Dern is in a notorious mood given her newly acquired record of going 3-0 in mma. Over the weekend Dern got the chance to try her hand at striking and sparred over 3 rounds...

Carlos Machado: We Want To Watch Awesome BJJ, Not A Contest Of Who Stalls Better

    Outcomes of IBJJF style Jiu-Jitsu  competitions are largely shaped by different points strategies the high level competitors employ. It’s not really a game of who is better as...

Mackenzie Dern On What Would Happen If She Rolled w/ Ronda Rousey

BJJ world champion Mackenzie Dern talks about what would happen if she rolled with Ronda Rousey… 2 years ago, when Ronda Rousey was at her peek in MMA, she said that she wanted to be a world...

‘Modern’ BJJ Guards Used in Kosen Judo Tournaments From 1952

Kosen judo (高專柔道 Kōsen jūdō) was a refinement of Kodokan judo that was developed and flourished at the Kōtō senmon gakkō(高等専門学校) (Kōsen (高專)) technical colleges in...

Vinny Magalhaes: Rickson’s 400-0 Record is Like Renato Laranja’s 27 World Titles

Earlier this, Rickson Gracie shared his thoughts on the evolution of Jiu-Jitsu and he made a claim that nowadays when he goes to teach BJJ seminars to sport BJJ schools, it reminds him of the times...

Setting Up Takedowns vs Low Stances & Guard Pullers in BJJ

  Guest post by Daniel Vaughan, BJJ black belt and instructor at M3Fight Academy. Today we will look at the foot sweep, a takedown that works well against opponents in a low stance and guard...

Burglar Gets Bloody Beating From Ultraheavyweight BJJ Blue Belt Homeowner

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Suspect Josue Ortiz faces multiple charges after a Brian Burch a homeowner who trains in jiu-jitsu and has a wrestling background allegedly found him stealing tools in his garage...

Renzo Gracie Shares His Opinion on Junior BJJ Black Belts

  Earlier today we could observe another fairly outrageous development – Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts were awarded to not one but two underage kids. There are certain things which, by law,...

BJJ Instructor Awards two Junior Black Belts

    Quite a peculiar scene took place earlier this week at Gunn Marital Arts in Maryland USA. One of the instructors opted to award two juniors their bjj black belts. In brazilian jiu jitsu...

Filmmaker & BJJ Black Belt Guy Ritchie Rolling & Talking about BJJ

The British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, 47, a long time practitioner of Jiu-Jitsu became a black belt under Renzo Gracie back in 2015. Ritchie is the director of movies such as Snatch, Sherlock Holmes,...

Roger Gracie Returns To Jiu-Jitsu at Pro League HW GP with Buchecha & Galvao

Guess who’s back? The man who holds the most World titles in IBJJF history, Roger Gracie ! Gracie is the 3rd competitor added to the Pro League Heavyweight GP! Who will win the USD $40,000...

Rickson Gracie On People Simultaneously Training at Different BJJ Academies

Team switching in Jiu-Jitsu is a very controversial topic that will always provoke different points of views and arguments among the BJJ community. Throughout Jiu-Jitsu history, there have always...

Watch: Nicholas Meregali Defeats Xande Ribeiro in Black Belt Debut

The best brown belt in the world in 2016, 22 year old Nicholas Meregali was promoted to black belt by Mario Reis last December. In his first ever competition in his new rank, he made a huge...

Davi Ramos & Augusto Frota To Hold Charity BJJ Seminar in Serbia

  A major event for BJJ in Serbia and the region! For the first time ever, Davi Ramos (2015 ADCC champion) and Augusto Frota (head of Frota team and 3rd degree black belt under Rodrigo...

The Ultimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tattoo Collection

  If you are looking for inspiration for a Jiu-Jitsu tattoo this is the right place!  Brazilian website muitomaisacaojiujitsu.com.br made a collection of BJJ tattoos and we added to the...

Russian BJJ Team Ignores Backlash; Releases 2017 Sexy Calendar

It’s a new year and BJJ Strela Team from Russia have just released their 2017 calendar. After the highly successful 2016 edition, this calendar has now become a tradition and they continue...

Liborio on ADCC Sonnen Match: ‘He’s 10 years Younger but Technically I Have A Chance’

BJJ legend Ricardo Liborio, co founder of the famed American Top Team will facing Chael Sonnen in an ADCC Stars Superfight in the upcoming ADCC Worlds in Finland later this year! Ricardo Liborio has...

Europeans 2017 Recap: Leandro Lo and Tayane Porfirio Win Big

    Another European IBJJF championship is behind us. Over the past weekend athletes from all over the globe applied their jiu-jitsu to the best of their abilities in order to secure a...

3rd BJJ Intensive Camp in Lignano Italy 25th-28th May 2017

Welcome to the Third BJJ INTENSIVE TRAINING CAMP in Lignano/Udine – ITALY. 25th – 28th of May 2017 Lignano/Udine/Italy Training, accommodation, food, beach, sea, fun, open mats, drinks,...

Training Report: Amazing BJJ Vacation at Evolve MMA Singapore

By Guillaume (Gile) Huni, BJJ black belt and head instructor of Kimura Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. I’ve just came back from an amazing two week long vacation in Singapore. This was my third...