Steve Maxwell on Specific Strength Training for BJJ & Best Diet…
Feb 17, 2017BJJEE
Steve Maxwell is a physical educator, coach, martial artist and nomad. He is a 5th degree Jiu Jitsu blackbelt under Relson Gracie and has trained with some of the best in the business incl. Rickson...
Mackenzie Dern Aiming For That Absolute Title, Outlines More Goals For 2017
Jan 13, 2017BJJEE
Mackenzie Dern is preparing hard for the Europeans. She reportedly decided late she wanted to sign up for Europeans and to keep her IBJJF ranking spot – no#1! @ibjjf...
The Killa B Rubber Guard Variation and Its Founder Returning To UFC
Jan 11, 2017BJJEE
Ben “Killa B” Saunders is a UFC fighter in the Welterweight division. He’s also the first person to have subbed someone with an omoplata in the UFC octagon. (Video)...
Ryan Hall: I’d have been borderline impossible to beat in sub only!
Nov 25, 2016BJJEE
Ryan Hall is a bjj black belt under Felipe Costa and one of the best featherweights around. His competitive pedigree is matched only by his teaching credits – you will seldom meet...
(Update) Self Promoted Brown Belt Fired From Martial Arts School
Nov 12, 2016BJJEE
BJJ purple belt Joe McCaffery became widely known few days ago when the video of him promoting himself to brown belt and talking a big game went viral. The videos can still be seen...
Self Promoted Brown Belt Boasts Of Gold He Got Without Competing
Nov 04, 2016BJJEE
Joe McCaffery became widely known few days ago when the video of him promoting himself and talking a big game went viral. The videos can still be seen here in spite of him taking them...
Does Grappling Increase Risk Of Disc Herniation?
Oct 24, 2016BJJEE
Do you have an issue with your back? Are you in pain? Disc herniations are much more common than previously thought. Further, disc herniation may be asymptomatic. They may cause mild to moderate or...
White Belt: Where Your Willpower is Forged
Oct 24, 2016BJJEE
Written by Jakub Trojan The Beginning Every person who trains, trained or will be training bjj has something in common – they all were a white belt once. The first step into Brazilian jiu-jitsu...
Grappling Central Podcast Interviews Bill Cooper
Jul 12, 2016BJJEE
Bill “The Grill” Cooper is the latest guest of Grappling Central Podcast. Bill Cooper is a brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Ricardo “Franjinha” Miller and a black belt in...
Steve Maxwell Jiu-Jitsu Seminar in Zagreb, Croatia 23/06
Jun 23, 2016BJJEE
Steve Maxwell is in Croatia and he’s ready to share some knowledge! Steve Maxwell is a physical educator, coach, martial artist and nomad. He is a 5th degree Jiu Jitsu blackbelt under Relson...
Top 10 Things We’ve Learned From The Latest Mark Schultz interview
Jun 09, 2016BJJEE
UFC 9 Veteran and Olympic Gold Winner in Wrestling, Mark Schultz recently got interviewed by the Grappling Central podcast. This is what we learned listening to the episode: 1) Mark Schultz...
Huge Guy Challenges Much Smaller BJJ World Champ Robson Moura
Jun 01, 2016BJJEE
The official video – Robson Moura had a huge guy walk into his school and challenge anyone there to fight for $20. Robson said he would fight him, and beat him in 5 minutes – and...
(Video) Wellington ‘Megaton’ Dias 20 years of Worlds
May 29, 2016BJJEE
Last year during the 2015 IBJJF Worlds, history was be made. Wellington ‘Megaton’ Dias is the only Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor to have competed in all 20 World Jiu-Jitsu Championships,...
‘Creontism’: Jiu-Jitsu’s Biggest Hypocrisy
May 28, 2016BJJEE
The term creonte originated within Brazilian jiu-jitsu organizations in Brazil to refer to a student who either is, or perceived to be, disloyal to a particular school or organization,...
Pioneering BJJ in Cambodia: Vivaddhana Khaou
May 04, 2016BJJEE
Guest post by Vi, a Cambodian blue belt under Axis Jiu-Jitsu in Tokyo, Japan. Vi travels once a year to his home academy where he trains under Takamasa Watanabe, a Rickson Gracie Black Belt....
Roberto Satoshi Thug Life at World Pro 2016
Apr 30, 2016BJJEE
Robert Satoshi de Souza was cool under pressure when his opponent lifted him up in his triangle. He even winked at the camera, thug style. Roberto Satoshi, also known as Roberto “Toshi”,...
BJJ Black Belt On What He Learned From Henry Akins’ Seminar
Apr 18, 2016BJJEE
In BJJ, Rickson Gracie’s Jiu-Jitsu is often seen as the most efficient style but is also the most hidden as it has only been taught to a select few and never on video. The person who...
Roy Harris Promotes Online BJJ Students By Email Up To Brown Belt
Apr 12, 2016BJJEE
Roy Harris is an accomplished American martial artist, known in the Brazilian jiu jitsu world for being a black belt under Joe Moreira and is often (wrongly) mentioned as a part of the “BJJ...
Top 10 Most Loved People in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Apr 05, 2016BJJEE
The rapid expansion of bjj also means facing some controversies but there were always a select few who are almost universally admired and respected. Whether it’s about talents,...
The Top 5 International BJJ Training Facilities Preparing Fighters for MMA
Mar 29, 2016BJJEE
It’s fair to say that BJJ Eastern Europe wouldn’t exist without the number of quality training facilities scattered across the continent, yet that’s not to say any of us need...
Tool Frontman Maynard James Keenan Shows BJJ Takedown
Mar 22, 2016BJJEE
Maynard James Keenan is an American progressive metal singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning American...
Wrestling Legend Mark Schultz Promoted to BJJ Black Belt by Pedro Sauer
Mar 16, 2016BJJEE
Olympic and 2-time World champion freestyle wrestler, Mark Schultz, whose life story was featured in the movie ‘Foxcatcher’ has just been promoted to Jiu-Jitsu black belt by...
Sauer: ‘Online Technical Blue Belts Better at Self Defense than Normal Blue Belts’
Mar 11, 2016BJJEE
A coral belt under Rickson Gracie, Pedro Sauer has recently joined forces with the Gracie Academy (Ryron and Rener Gracie). This means that all Pedro Sauer academies will be urged to become...
Why is BJJ More Philosophical Than Other Grappling Arts
Mar 02, 2016BJJEE
ESPN’s documentary on Iowa Wrestling is one of the more interesting wrestling documentaries. As one of the protagonists proclaims at the very beginning: “It’s hero or...
