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Category Archive: Articles, Interviews

Mikey Musumeci Shares The Secret For Never Getting Tired of Jiu-Jitsu Even After Training for 22 Years

26-year-old Mikey Musumeci will defend his 26-pound One Championship gold belt in a co-main event grappling superfight clash against Osamah Almarwai at the sold-out 1stBank Center in Colorado this...

Osamah Almarwai: ‘It’s a Lot of Pressure Being the 1st Middle Eastern IBJJF Black Belt World Champion’

26-year-old Mikey Musumeci will defend his 26-pound One Championship gold belt in a co-main event grappling superfight clash against Osamah Almarwai at the sold-out 1stBank Center in Colorado this...

From Police Detective To Traveling The World Teaching BJJ, Meet BJJ Brown Belt Jack Brown

Jack Brown is a Scottish BJJ brown belt under Marcos Nardini who is currently traveling all around the world during this crazy Pandemic and training BJJ. Jack quit his job as a Police detective,...

Interview: Pan & European Champ Ed Ramos On His BJJ Academy in The USA

Ed Ramos, a jiu-jitsu black belt under Ramon Lemos is a former member of the original Atos Jiu-Jitsu Academy from Brazil (Rafael Mendes, Guilherme Mendes, Bruno Frazatto, Ary Farias, Rodrigo Caporal,...

Meet Mohamed Omar Abd El Aziz of Anubis Martial Arts Academy in Cairo, Egypt

We had the pleasure to interview Mohamed Omar Abd El Aziz, a BJJ black belt under Roberto ‘Cyborg’ Abreu. Mohamed has been doing an incredible job developing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Egypt,...

Controlling Your Emotions During Competition with World & ADCC Champ Claudio Calasans

Claudio Calasans Camargo is both a Judo and a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, representing the Atos Jiu Jitsu team and the Calasans Camargo Gym. His father is a seventh degree black belt in Judo...

Roberto “Gordo” Correa On How He Developed The Offensive Half Guard

Roberto “Gordo” Correa is an important and legendary figure of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. A part of the old school generation, he has trained under Jean-Jacques Machado and has received his...

Why Every Grappler Needs to do Yoga, by Yoga for BJJ’s Sebastian Brosche

A black belt in BJJ under Eduardo Rios and a second degree black belt in Judo, Sebastian Brosche is the creator of the famous „Yoga for BJJ“ website – where he aims to transform every single...

3x World Champ Claudia Doval On Going From Judo to BJJ & Becoming a Professional Competitor

Claudia Doval is a name that has quite recently popped out on the BJJ scene. She is a black belt part of Soul Fighters team, and by being named as the top female athlete by the IBJJF for the...

Ricardo Almeida’s Advice for Competitors & Recreational Practitioners & Stories From The Old Days at Gracie Barra in Brazil

Ricardo Almeida is the first student that Renzo Gracie promoted to the rank of black belt, and he’s also one of the veterans from the 2000’s era of MMA. He competed in numerous grappling...

Miha Perhavec Travels The World Training BJJ & Competing With The Best

Miha Perhavec was first featured in our Rising Stars column a few years back. Since, he’s been training with some of the best people in the World, making a name for himself on Polaris &...

How to Deal with Injuries in BJJ – Michael Jen Full Interview

4th degree black belt and physiotherapist talks about how to prevent and deal with injuries.

Rickson Gracie Interview with Matt Thornton

SBG’s Matt Thornton interviews BJJ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend Rickson Gracie

Roger Gracie Interview with Liam Wandi

Roger Gracie talks to Liam Wandi aka the Part time Grappler about his career and future.

Drysdale: Why Some BJJers Didn’t Do Well In MMA

BJJ and ADCC world champion Robert Drysdale on Why BJJ players nowadays have less success in MMA…