Henry Akins Shows An Interesting Way To Deal With The Z Guard
Sep 01, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Today hundreds of thousands of jiu jitsu students around the globe are using their knee shields, bottom hook, frames and under hook to withstand tons upon tons of opponent pressure, elevate them to...
Junny Ocasio Explains Important Chain Passing Concepts In Jiu-Jitsu
Jul 25, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Does it feel as if your guard passing is somewhat stagnating? As in, you do know a number of guard passes and you perform most of them with reasonable quality… But no matter how much you try,...
Offbalanced In Half Butterfly Guard? Try Doing This
Jul 16, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
If you have been doing BJJ for any length of time you have asked yourself this question! Rickson Gracie once said, “the guard is the heart and soul of jiu jitsu”. If you haven’t already...
How Bernardo Faria Created the Perfect Guard System
Jun 02, 2023BJJEE
5x BJJ World Champion Bernardo Faria is known for his half guard and smashing passing style. He achieved a phenomenal double gold medals in the BJJ Mundials in 2015. Be sure to check out Bernardo’s...
Robert Drysdale: “BJJ Came Into My Life At The Right Moment”
Apr 21, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
How old were you when you first started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? Robert Drysdale was 17… And he feels that BJJ found him at just the right moment in life. He explained why in an interview...
Deep Half Guard: Try These 3 Highly Efficient Sweeps
Mar 05, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The Deep Half Guard is one of those Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu positions that is mostly used for sweeps, rather than for submissions. However, if you’re open-minded enough, you can turn the Deep Half into...
How To Perform The Leg Weave Pass In BJJ
Oct 28, 2022BJJEE
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...
Forcing Half Guard Is The Solution For Your Guard Passing Problems
Sep 13, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
If you have been doing BJJ for any length of time you have asked yourself this question! Rickson Gracie once said, “the guard is the heart and soul of jiu jitsu”. If you haven’t already...
Jean Jacques Machado Shares Blueprint for Beating Bigger, Stronger Opponents in BJJ
Apr 08, 2022BJJEE
Are you considering competing in an absolute division? Or you simply have some heavy training partners in your BJJ academy? Whatever the case may be, the bottom line is: you’re going against...
The Brabo Sweep is The Perfect Solution To Your Opponent’s Smash Pass
Apr 01, 2022BJJEE
The leg lace smash pass is a widely used pass in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. ADCC silver medalist Josh Hinger has a few great counters for it though – so tune in and read on! Josh starts from a knee...
Unstoppable Folding Pass Using a Double Grip on the Lapel
Mar 25, 2022BJJEE
Pressure passing is a whole lot easier in the Gi – mostly because you can set up various grips, which give way to many passing variations. However, this is not to say that you can’t pressure pass...
This Half Guard to Back Take Sequence Works Well in a Street Altercation
Mar 16, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
When it comes to being in a street fight, it’s best that you avoid being on the ground. For, if you end up there, there’s no telling if the “other person’s” friends will...
If You Train Jiu-Jitsu, You Should Know These Following Guards
Mar 14, 2022BJJEE
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...
How To Chain Your BJJ Guards: Open Guards
Mar 13, 2022BJJEE
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...
How to Beat Bigger and Stronger Opponents in BJJ?
Jan 26, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Are you considering competing in an absolute division? Or you simply have some heavy training partners in your BJJ academy? Whatever the case may be, the bottom line is: you’re going against...
Which Concepts To Implement For Quick Improvements in No-Gi BJJ
Dec 28, 2021BJJEE
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...
How To Master The Half Guard In BJJ
Oct 06, 2021BJJEE
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...
F2W 180 Results: Rafael Lovato Jr. Keeps the No Gi Title
Aug 08, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
The Fight To Win (F2W) 180 event was stacked with exciting matches! In the main event – the No Gi light heavyweight title match – Rafael Lovato Jr. got the win against Gabriel Arges. And...
Roger Gracie’s Favorite Kimura Set Up from Half Guard
Jul 19, 2021BJJEE
The knee shield/Z-Guard is a conservative half guard game where you keep your shield up and never let your opponents come too close. Bottom half guard players that like to either play knee shield or...
When is Half Guard Better than Closed Guard?
Jun 11, 2021BJJEE
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter cascao vital and runs cascao bjj hard knocks out of Las Vegas nv. Back in the day, half guard was seen as a position that was halfway to...
Everything You Need For an Effective Half Guard with Jake Mackenzie
May 29, 2021BJJEE
The half guard position has been going through a renaissance lately primarily through the popularity and prevalence of half guard being used by world class practitioners like Bernardo Faria and Tom...
The First 3 Sweeps You Should Master In BJJ
Apr 13, 2021BJJEE
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...
Having Trouble With Setting Up A Strong De La Riva Hook? Do This
Jan 08, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
After quite some time spent at being infatuated with the No Gi game, it seems that you have finally understood that it’s not about „one or the other“; but that Jiu Jitsu is meant to be...
This Half-Guard Sweep is The Most Embarrassing Sweep in BJJ
Nov 09, 2020BJJEE
This simple, effective, embarrassing sweep is funny and awesome… BJJ black belt Gustavo Gasperin shows this really sneaky and funny sweep from knee shield half guard. It’s all about...
