4 Ways To Surprise Your Opponent By Passing Straight To Mount
Nov 06, 2019BJJEE
Passing straight to mount is a great option that saves you all the trouble of having to pass by half guard or side control in order of get to mount. You also get 7 points in a competition...
5 Triangle Variations That You Need To Know
Nov 04, 2019BJJEE
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...
Updated List of BJJ Red Belts: There are Much More than You Think!
Oct 06, 2019BJJEE
The 9th degree red belt is the highest rank awarded to any currently living practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. According to Renzo & Royler Gracie, in Brazilian jiu-jitsu the red...
Henry Akins On How To Improve Quicker in Jiu-Jitsu
Oct 01, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by Henry Akins, the third American to receive a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt from legendary fighter Rickson Gracie. Akins trained under Rickson Gracie for 15 years. Akins became the...
How Training With Heavyweights Will Benefit Your Jiu-Jitsu
Sep 16, 2019BJJEE
“If you are not comfortable fighting someone 50 pounds heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu. – Rickson Gracie Written by Jason Bright for BJJEE Rener...
What is a Black Belt in BJJ Really Worth?
Aug 28, 2019BJJEE
By Guillaume (Gile) Huni, BJJ black belt and head instructor of Kimura Academy in Belgrade, Serbia. Jiu-Jitsu is effective because you can’t be a fake and train in this sport. The long...
How Do I Finish More From Side Control When I Get There?
Aug 26, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by Henry Akins, the third American to receive a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt from legendary fighter Rickson Gracie. Akins trained under Rickson Gracie for 15 years. Akins became the...
BJJ Competitions: How Are Masters Different From Adult Divisions?
Aug 23, 2019BJJEE
By Guillaume Huni, BJJ black belt and BJJ instructor at Kimura BJJ Academy in Belgrade, Serbia When competing in BJJ past the age of 30, you have the option to enter some tournaments in the master...
5 Qualities Which Define a Great Jiu-Jitsu Instructor
Aug 17, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by Henry Akins, the third American to receive a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt from legendary fighter Rickson Gracie. Akins trained under Rickson Gracie for 15 years. Akins became...
Prevention is More Effective Than Escaping Positions & Submissions
Aug 14, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter Cascao Vital. He runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. There is always one point in the class where the black belt asks his...
Dean Lister: I Will Not Give a Brown Belt to Anyone Who is a D*ckhead
Jul 30, 2019BJJEE
Dean Lister is a worldly martial artist – including speaking a variety on languages including Portuguese, rudimentary French and even some Croatian (thanks to being Mirko CroCop...
Black Belt: The Only People Who Should Care About The Patch on Your Back are Biker Clubs & Street Gangs
Jul 30, 2019BJJEE
Politics have always been one facet of the lifestyle in jiu-jitsu. For this part of the subculture a term Creonte was created. Carlson Gracie came up with term “Creonte” Creonte was the...
Japanese MMA Legends Rumina Sato & Caol Uno Have a Barn Burner of a BJJ Match
Jun 12, 2019BJJEE
In quite uncommon to see top level MMA fighters face each other in a BJJ Gi match. This recently happened in Japan at the Shooto Cup when MMA legends Rumina Sato and Cao Uno, put on their Gis and...
Self Defense Expert Shares Video of Himself Duelling Sport BJJ Practitioner
May 07, 2019BJJEE
Self Defense Expert Nick Drossos has been teaching Personal Protection for over 20 years according to his own account. He believes his realistic approach to self-defense has given him the edge. Now...
Gilbert Durinho’s Unique Way Of Developing The ‘Squeeze’ in His Guillotines
Apr 08, 2019BJJEE
UFC fighter and BJJ black belt world champion Gilbert Durinho Burns has a unique approach to developing that squeeze in Jiu-Jitsu: Static Guillotine workouts. Why train like this? It’s simply...
Two Tweaks That Will Add to the Control and Viciousness of Your Triangle
Mar 21, 2019grappler z
The triangle choke is one of the most common and also one of the highest percentage submissions in Grappling. When executed perfectly, it is a powerful weapon which is very hard to escape. There are...
UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell Was Challenged to a 10K BJJ Match By Ali Abdelaziz
Feb 26, 2019BJJEE
UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell recently detailed a stunning challenge he received in his inbox. The challenge comes from controversial mma manager Ali Abdelaziz who reps many stars from Khabib...
Combat Jiu Jitsu Fight Night Falls Apart – Now With 0 From Original 4 Grapplers
Feb 19, 2019BJJEE
Combat Jiu Jitsu Fight Night has certainly gone through a major transition. From Gordon Ryan, Vinny Magalhaes, Werdum and Josh Barnett it steadily moved through each one of these participants in the...
Craig Jones Set To Grapple Mouthy Josh Hinger
Feb 02, 2019BJJEE
Josh Hinger will be grappling ADCC 2017 boy wonder – Craig Jones. Another promotion is picking up steam from the USA – Third Coast Grappling. Their next major event will be in June, the...
‘Narcos’ Director Jose Padilha Tackling Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Movie ‘Dead or Alive’ for Netflix
Feb 02, 2019BJJEE
Brazilian jiujitsu will get its source story told by José Padilha, the film maker behind the police thriller Elite Squad along with Netflix’s crime dramatization Narcos. Padilha will lead to...
Hinger: The Last Thing We Need Are Nice People Acting Like Sh*theads.
Jan 31, 2019BJJEE
Josh Hinger has long struggled to distinguish himself in a sea of ATOS black belts with a stellar competitive background. This in turn produced a lot of controversial opinions from Hinger over the...
BJJ Lookalikes, 2019 Updated Version
Jan 01, 2019BJJEE
No disrespect to all our BJJ heroes. It’s all in good fun. Please feel free to make suggestions and we will add them! & ...
BJJ Concepts: Know When You ARE Playing Guard and You Are NOT
Oct 01, 2018BJJEE
Concepts in bjj are perhaps much more useful than exact moves. By applying general principles you’ll round your game and end up overall much much better. Leaning on concepts is what made Roger...
Yuki Nakai Falls Asleep Matside Watching Keenan Cornelius- Shrek BJJ Match
Sep 21, 2018BJJEE
It’s a known fact, even for BJJ practitioners, that BJJ matches are not always the most exciting to watch. This is especially true when you are at a tournament watching simultaneous matches at...
