Make Your Toreando Pass Better With These Great Details
Jan 13, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
The Toreando Pass is, more often than not, one of the first passes you learn on your BJJ journey. But, like so many other things that we learn as beginners, there are some game-changing details that...
Most Common BJJ Injuries & How To Roll With Them
Jan 13, 2020grappler z
Going too hard during BJJ practice is like pushing a rubber band to the point of snapping. Often times while rolling, tapping out isn’t an option because our egos are dominating our minds. Only...
Surprise Your Training Partner w/ this Lapel Loop Choke from Hugo Fevrier
Jan 10, 2020BJJEE
The loop choke is one of the deadly subsets of those lapel chokes. The thing that sets the loop choke apart from other lapel chokes is the sneaky nature with which you are able to land it. The true...
Chael Sonnen On Why Greco-Roman Wrestlers Do Better in MMA Than Freestyle Wrestlers
Jan 09, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
Does it seem to you that Greco-Roman Wrestling translates better to MMA than Freestyle Wrestling does? And that the Greco-Roman wrestlers had way more success in MMA than their Freestyle...
Surprise Them with the Sneakiest Darce & Guillotine Set Up w/ Jeff Glover
Jan 09, 2020BJJEE
You know this situation. You are positionally dominating your opponent when all of a sudden they grab your neck. You think, that there is no way that they will catch you from there so you defend...
The 3 Submissions That Are Taking The BJJ World By Storm
Jan 07, 2020BJJEE
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...
Side Control Escape – Most Common Mistakes
Jan 05, 2020grappler z
Top BJJ black belt Jonathan Thomas aka Macarrao gives some good tips on common mistakes when escaping side control: I think recomposing is one of the most important aspects of your game that...
How Big & Strong Can Bodyweight Exercises Make You for Grappling?
Jan 05, 2020BJJEE
Generally, yes you can get stronger just by doing bodyweight exercises at home. Kron Gracie is one of the advocates of calisthenics and we all know his results. If you are planning on starting a...
How To Make Your Kids Fall in Love with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Jan 05, 2020grappler z
So you want your kids to continue training Jiu-Jitsu? You want Jiu Jitsu to grow on them and make them love it? There are a few things you can do in order to ensure your kids enjoy rolling with you....
The Best Knee Cut Pass Setup by JT Torres
Dec 31, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
The Knee Cut Pass is, more often than not, set up from an Open Guard… But what if we were to tell you that you can also set it up from being in someone’s Butterfly Guard – and that the...
5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Jiu-Jitsu Black Belts
Dec 27, 2019BJJEE
Photo: Leon Sandoval www.heyleon.com, Instagram @heyleonmedia and Facebook.com/heyleonmedia Guest post by Bill Jones, owner and head instructor at Top Level Martial Arts in Cuyahoga Falls,...
Rare Footage Of John Danaher Rolling Surfaces
Dec 24, 2019BJJEE
Footage of John Danaher rolling is very hard to come by. The amazing coach of the Danaher Death Squad started training BJJ in the mid 90’s and was one of Renzo Gracie’s first American...
Never Get Swept Again By Following These Concepts by Augusto ‘Tanquinho’ Mendes
Dec 19, 2019BJJEE
Agility has always been an important attribute of all top BJJ practitioners. Even the best athletes in BJJ will be at a disadvantage against an opponent at the same technical level but who is more...
Don’t Get Disqualified Doing This Sweep
Dec 19, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
There are BJJ sweeps… And then are the BJJ sweeps! You know what we mean by that – there are some sweeps that you just cannot take your eyes off, whether it’s because of the great...
John Danaher Talks One Sureway Of Speeding Up Your BJJ Progress
Dec 19, 2019BJJEE
Speeding up one’s progress is a preoccupation for almost every person who starts training jiu-jitsu. There are no easy solutions to this conundrum. However one of the best coaches...
Learning From Competition Black Belts & Learning From Those That Don’t Compete
Dec 15, 2019BJJEE
A few years ago, Keenan Cornelius made a video on a guard break that he said was WRONG and a worthless technique. This was the basic closed guard knee in the middle opening from the knees. The video...
What Are The Real Merits Of Sport Jiu-Jitsu Techniques?
Dec 14, 2019BJJEE
So you’ve just watched a match featuring either Keenan Cornelius or the Miyao Brothers. Those De la Riva and Reverse de la Riva sweeps look so fancy and fantastic and you’re thinking to...
Tom DeBlass: ‘I Almost Quit Jiu-Jitsu As A Blue Belt’
Dec 14, 2019BJJEE
Tom DeBlass is a former Bellator and UFC fighter with a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jisu under Ricardo Almeida. Tom was a County Champion Long Jumper in High School graduating from Central Regional...
Five Secrets to Escaping Side Control
Dec 14, 2019Tyson Kilbey
Side Control is the nightmare of many Jiu Jitsu students. I would include it as one of the top five most asked questions by beginner and intermediate level grapplers. How do I escape side control?...
The Dark Side: Building Yourself A Lethal Leg Lock Game That Will Make You Feared by All
Dec 11, 2019BJJEE
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years and paid zero attention to BJJ competitions and trends, you have no doubt watched the incredible rise in attention that the lower...
How Do Great Passers Constantly Switch Directions
Dec 10, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
If you’ve been watching high level BJJ competition matches for a while, you’ve probably seen that a lot of the top ranking jiujiteiros frequently change directions when they guard pass,...
Safely Escaping the Lockdown by Lachlan Giles
Dec 03, 2019BJJEE
After earning a black belt under Jean-Jacques Machado, Eddie Bravo focused his jiu-jitsu on training without the gi, partially because of the applications to mixed martial arts. The system focuses on...
The Ultimate Guide To BJJ Tournament Rules & Scoring
Nov 30, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve Vacation. The Evolve Vacation Program offers travelers the rare opportunity of a lifetime to combine a tropical vacation under the sun with authentic training under World...
6 Tips That Will Help You Transition To No-Gi BJJ
Nov 23, 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...
