Craig Jones: “Gordon Isn’t Really An Athletic Guy – It’s All Just Technique”
Feb 16, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Gordon Ryan and Felipe Pena will face each other for the fourth time in their careers, on February 25… But who will take the win this time? Craig Jones believes that it’ll all come down...
Body Lock Passing Basics: The Lateral Knee Push
Jan 08, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Body Lock passing can be a great addition to your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skillset. Especially if you haven’t experimented with this passing style before; when you learn the proper setups and...
Gordon Ryan On Training With ‘The Mountain’: “It Was A Great Experience”
Dec 25, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Just a few of days ago, Gordon Ryan won a hard-fought match against Nicky Rodriguez at UFC Fight Pass Invitational 3 – based on escape time in overtime. However, prior to that and after his...
Body Lock Passing: Don’t Be Too Early… But Don’t Be Too Late, Either
Nov 17, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Body Lock passing can be a great addition to your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skillset. Especially if you haven’t experimented with this passing style before; when you learn the proper setups and...
Jeff Glover: “Wrestlers Can Be More Dangerous Than BJJ Black Belts”
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Jeff Glover was a recent guest of The Jason Chambers Podcast, where the two discussed many interesting things; one of them being the belt system in Jiu-Jitsu. Chambers mentioned that, even though...
Force Your Opponent To Turtle Up With The “Kosoto”
Oct 04, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The Turtle position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is nowhere as greatly explored as other positions are. That is to say: there are a number of possibilities when your opponent turtles up, both for...
ADCC Superfight: Gordon Ryan Makes History Winning Division & Superfight vs Andre Galvao
Sep 19, 2022BJJEE
2022 @adcc_official watch live on @flograppling Gordon Ryan -750 vs Andre Galvao Winner: Gordon Ryan by submission (rear naked choke). An early double leg takedown by Galvão started off the...
Elder Cruz Gets Promoted to BJJ Black Belt by Lucas Leite
Jun 09, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Elder Cruz is one of the most successful athletes to have come from the Checkmat team in the recent years. This year, 2022, has been an amazing as well… And now it became even better, as he was...
ADCC North American West Coast Trials 2022: Full Results
Apr 05, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The ADCC North American West Coast Trials have now come to an end too. It has been the biggest one ever, as a number of athletes looked to reserve their spot for this year’s ADCC World...
The Rise Of Modern Jiu-Jitsu Master John Danaher
Nov 16, 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...
Gordon Ryan Shows Off New $1 Million House in Austin, Texas
Oct 25, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Earlier this year, in September, Gordon Ryan and John Danaher announced that they would be leaving Puerto Rico for good – as a result of many things, one of them being unable to find their own...
Craig Jones Grappling with Three-Time Division 1 Wrestler Jason Nolf
Oct 05, 2021BJJEE
Craig Jone’s recently posted an interesting video of him training at his new academy, B-Team Jiu-Jitsu Academy located in Austin, Texas. Jones did some no No Gi grappling training with...
The Easiest Way To Add the Kneebar to your Game
Sep 24, 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...
Gordon Ryan Responds To Brazilians Pushing For a Brazil vs USA Event
Mar 10, 2021BJJEE
BJJ black belt champion and Dreamworks team leader Isaque Bahiense has announced his plan to organize a mega grappling pitting the best grapplers from Brazil and USA against each other. Bahiense came...
Brazilians Pushing for Brazil vs USA Event As Payback for the Ryan-Galvao Slapping Incident
Mar 09, 2021BJJEE
BJJ black belt champion and Dreamworks team leader Isaque Bahiense has announced his plan to organize a mega grappling pitting the best grapplers from Brazil and USA against each other. Bahiense came...
Garry Tonon Gives The Latest On The DDS Puerto Rico Academy
Jan 28, 2021BJJEE
It goes without saying that one of the hottest topics in the BJJ community recently has been the change of location that the top BJJ team from New York city has decided on. Of course we talking about...
The 3 Most Promising Prospects In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Sep 18, 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...
Luke Rockhold Slams BJJ Community: “All St*roids & Leglocks”
Nov 30, 2019BJJEE
Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold will be facing the 2019 ADCC silver medalist Nick Rodriguez in a grappling superfight at the upcoming Polaris on Nov. 30 event in Newport, Wales. You...
Keenan Cornelius Makes a Stop at The Blue Basement to train with DDS
Apr 23, 2019BJJEE
Keenan Cornelius has no angst about his recent ouster from the ATOS camp. Cornelius is making a seminar tour and dropped by the Renzo Gracie academy to train with Garry Tonon, Gordon Ryan and the...
Here’s How To Do The Cartwheel Pass In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Nov 23, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The Cartwheel Pass is one of those guard passes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that can seem dangerous and complicated… Which it most certainly is – if you don’t know how to do it. In...
The “Body Lock Quick Switch” Is Your New Favorite Guard Pass
Oct 25, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Body Lock passing is one of the best ways to pass guard in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. So, here’s a neat variation to it: the Body Lock Quick Switch! Jay Rodriguez demonstrates this guard passing...
Quintet 4: Craig Jones Carries B-Team To Victory
Sep 12, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
At Yokohama Arena in Japan on September 10, the B-Team won the title at Quintet 4 – secured by a standout performance from team captain Craig Jones. The team faced off against Team Polaris and...
Robert Degle Betraying his Own Kind: How To Pass a Leglocker’s Guard
Sep 01, 2023BJJEE
When searching on Google for ways to counter leg lockers, you will come across various counter-curses that aim to remove the leg-locker curse or leg-locking spell, which are fictional spells from the...
The Spiral Ride: Better Way To Control Opponents In Turtle
Aug 23, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The Turtle position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is nowhere as greatly explored as other positions are. That is to say: there are a number of possibilities when your opponent turtles up, both for...
