Competing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: A Powerful Tool For Self-Growth
Aug 31, 2022BJJEE
Photo: Toronto BJJ Scene Contributed to BJJEE by Jorge Britto, BJJ black belt under Saulo Ribeiro, who runs Toronto BJJ, one of Canada’s biggest and best BJJ academies. To understand...
This Fully Locked Triangle Escape Is Incredibly Simple Yet So Effective
Aug 09, 2022BJJEE
There are many ways to counter a triangle choke. There is the early escape, the middle escape and the late ‘Hail Mary’ escape. Saulo Ribeiro explains about how to escape from your...
Travis Stevens Takes on Entire BJJ Academy
Mar 23, 2022BJJEE
Judo and BJJ: Similar Jacket, different rules and mentality. Judo training will vastly improve your Jiu-Jitsu and vice versa. However, both sports have their own set of rules and have different goals...
Ronaldo Jacare Was Challenged by Entire Judo School
Mar 23, 2022BJJEE
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is the ultimate grappler with world class ground game and fantastic stand up takedown game. He is a BJJ and Judo black belt formed at ASLE academy with his first instructor...
Drop The World: Jacare Teaches His Trademark Double Grip Seoi Nage
Mar 23, 2022BJJEE
Seoi nage is a shoulder throw, one of the traditional forty throws of Judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of...
Ricardo Arona Inducted To ADCC Hall of Fame
Dec 08, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
The ADCC continues to add grapplers to the ADCC Hall of Fame. Namely, the athletes who are added to the Hall of Fame are those who’ve made a significant impact in their ADCC and overall...
Youtuber Trains Jiu-Jitsu Intensely for 30 Days & Sees if He Can Beat a Blue & Brown Belt
Nov 17, 2021BJJEE
The effects of BJJ on both mind and body are huge. Most often , you will hear practitioners going on about how BJJ changed their life , about how it became a lifestyle and how much you should try it...
Watch Roger Gracie vs Fernando ‘Margarida’, One of the Best Matches of All Time
Sep 14, 2021BJJEE
Fernando “Margarida” Pontes is in the Top 10 of best Jiu-Jitsu competitors of all time. In the early 2000’s, he was on top of the world having won the weight and absolute at the...
The Real Difference Between BJJ Black Belt Masters & Adult Divisions
Aug 15, 2021BJJEE
Masters vs Adult Divisions – Black Belt Guest post by David ‘Malandro’ Onuma, a 3rd Degree Black belt under Mestre Ricardo De La Riva and the head of CFS BJJ. He is a current...
Why Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is The Ultimate Stress Relief
Aug 09, 2021BJJEE
Written by Ryan O’Shea, BJJ brown belt under Jorge Britto & Saulo Ribeiro. He runs his own academy in Canada: stratfordbjj.com Meditation can be loosely defined as the act of engaging...
Understanding Good & Bad Reasons for Competing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Jun 15, 2021BJJEE
“Jiu Jitsu was designed to make you quit. Jiu Jitsu will find your weakness. Jiu Jitsuwill show your true colors. You can not fake jiu jitsu”. -Saulo Ribero. Motivation: It is...
5 Ways To Throw with Ippon Seoi Nage
May 02, 2021BJJEE
Seoi nage is a shoulder throw, one of the traditional forty throws of Judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of...
A Deep Dive into Jacare Souza Unconventional Judo Background
Mar 27, 2021BJJEE
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is the ultimate grappler with world class ground game and fantastic stand up takedown game. He is a BJJ and Judo black belt formed at ASLE academy with his first instructor...
Ronda Rousey’s Drop Seoinage & How To do it Even If You Have Bad Knees
Mar 23, 2021BJJEE
Seoi nage is a shoulder throw, one of the traditional forty throws of Judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of...
Using Old School BJJ To Demolish New School BJJ Practitioners
Mar 15, 2021BJJEE
Is there anything more annoying in Jiu-Jitsu than competing or training against someone that you know you are “better” than, but you end up getting caught by the modern techniques and he goes to...
Secrets To a World Class Reverse De La Riva by Espen Mathiesen
Feb 11, 2021BJJEE
The reverse De La Riva guard is a great type of guard for keeping an aggressive passing opponent at bay and under control, and eventually transitioning to various sweeps, takedowns, back takes and...
Improve Your Takedown Skills By Just Watching Ronaldo Jacare’s New Takedown Highlight
Feb 08, 2021BJJEE
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is the ultimate grappler with world class ground game and fantastic stand up takedown game. He is a BJJ and Judo black belt formed at ASLE academy with his first instructor...
From The vault: Remembering Marcelo Garcia x Ronaldo Jacaré in Jiu-Jitsu
Dec 11, 2020BJJEE
Marcelo Garcia and Ronaldo Jacaré had memorable matches throughout their careers in Jiu-Jitsu. One of the first meetings in 2002, still a brown belt, had Jacaré winning. But the change would not be...
Here Are Some Of The Best Pressure Passers In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Nov 19, 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...
Five Tips To Be Welcomed With Open Arms in Almost Any BJJ Academy on Earth
Nov 06, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Eric York, BJJ purple belt, world traveller and president of BJJ Lifestyle brand Yolo BJJ. The moment you walk into a new gym you are trespassing. The people that train there...
The Judoka Who Won ADCC : Sanae Kikuta
Oct 24, 2020BJJEE
ADCC is known as the world championships of submission wrestling. Many will even say that because of the different ruleset, ADCC is not No Gi Jiu-Jitsu. ADCC has catapulted the careers of the worlds...
Do Not Compete in Jiu-Jitsu Before Understanding This
Oct 21, 2020BJJEE
If you are (or were) a BJJ competitor then you know exactly what the title of this post is all about. For many competitive athletes just the idea of being able to compete is one of the biggest...
Keenan Cornelius: ‘How Your Instructor Taught You To Open Closed Guard is WRONG’
Oct 04, 2020grappler z
BJJ black belt Keenan Cornelius released a video where he discredits the classic way of opening closed guard: knee in the middle, isolate a leg and push back. Keenan stated: “The way that your...
What Happens to You After Training Jiu-Jitsu For One Month
Oct 04, 2020BJJEE
The effects of BJJ on both mind and body are huge. Most often , you will hear practitioners going on about how BJJ changed their life , about how it became a lifestyle and how much you should try it...
