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Watch: Ryan Hall’s 2nd Fight in The Ultimate Fighter 22: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber

  “The Ultimate Fighter 22: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber” pits American athletes against European counterparts. Jiu-Jitsu black belt and 2009 ADCC bronze medalist, Ryan Hall is part of the...

Polaris 2: Garry Tonon, Imanari, Shaolin, Michelle Nicolini, AJ etc.. Set to Raise the Roof in Cardiff

    The much awaited second edition of Polaris Professional Jiu-Jitsu will happen on September 12th , in Cardiff, Wales (United Kingdom).  The international tournament will bring together...

Petition To US Congress Calls To Ban Submissions for Kids

  The subject of BJJ submissions to be taught to children is getting a lot of media attention at the moment. Teaching chokes to children should be done with care. In Judo tournaments,  chokes...

Luta Livre Black Belt Shows Painful Counters to Berimbolo Part2

    Luta Livre Black Belt Nico Welko of the Renovação Fight Team Deutschland showing a technique from his “Carioca Leglocks Series”. In this video he shows a basic counter technique...

Red Belt Deoclecio Paulo: ‘Fadda & Gracie Lines Share the Same Principles’

      Here is an interesting diagram which traces the roots ofJudo/Jiu-Jitsu or Gracie Jiu-Jitsu/ BJJ in Brazil. It not a very known fact that there were other sources of Jiu-Jitsu in...

European No Gi Champ Olga Lyashevska on Mixing Judo & BJJ & Growth of BJJ in Eastern Europe

    1/2 Russian 1/2 Ukrainian BJJ brown belt, Olga Lyashevska is one of the top female BJJ athletes in Europe.  She grew up in Crimea (used to be Ukraine, now Russia) and in 2005 moved to...

GSP’s BJJ Coach Bruno Fernandes (Assistant Professor At McGill University): ‘To Move Forward In Life You Have To Keep Facing Challenges’

    Bruno Fernandes is the head instructor at Gracie Barra Montreal, has a PhD, and is an assistant professor at one of the most prestigious medical schools in Canada (McGill University),...

BJJ Training Report, Havana Cuba: Russian BJJ Champ Opens First Ever Academy

    Written by Russian BJJ blue belt, Alexander Fedotov. He is a good friend of BJJ Eastern Europe and is a IBJJF Rome Open gold medalist as well as London Open silver medalist.  My name...

Metamoris 4 Preview & Predictions

  Metamoris Pro Brazilian jiu-jitsu invitational IV will take place this Saturday (Aug. 9, 2014), live from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. You can buy the payperview...

Josh Barnett On Metamoris 4 Match vs Dean Lister: “I Want To Show Catch Wrestling To These Jiu-Jitsu folks”

    Ralek Gracie, Metamoris 4 president has last night confirmed on the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, the following matches for Metamoris 4, planned for 4. Aug. 9 in LA. : Main event: Andre...

Ralek Gracie Confirms Metamoris 4 Card & Secret Match

    BJJ Eastern Europe was among the first media to anounce the Metamoris 4 match ups. Now Ralek Gracie, Metamoris president, had this to say on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour on...

PLAY BY PLAY: 2014 IBJJF Worlds + Results (Sunday June1st)

The 2014 IBJJF World championships take place at the Long Beach pyramid in California. The Worlds is the biggest and most prestigious tournament of the year. You can follow it by live streaming...

PLAY BY PLAY: 2014 IBJJF Worlds + Results (Saturday May 31st)

CLICK HERE FOR SUNDAY’S PLAY BY PLAY The 2014 IBJJF World championships take place at the Long Beach pyramid in California. The Worlds is the biggest and most prestigious tournament of the...

Sam Kaye On His Project ‘Disabled BJJ UK’ & Getting More Disabled People To Train Jiu-Jitsu

    Sam Kaye has come up with a great project: Disabled BJJ UK. His goal is develop Jiu-Jitsu among disabled people and organize a disabled BJJ tournament. He spoke to BJJ Eastern Europe...

Dean Lister Shows The Triangle Escape That he Used Against Keenan Cornelius In ADCC 2013

  BJJ black belt Dean Lister Shows The Very same Triangle Escape He Used at ADCC 2013 to Defend Keenan Cornelius’ Triangle on Keenan himself. Clip is From Dean’s Upcoming DVD Set...

Seminar Report: Rickson Gracie ‘Invisible Jiu-Jitsu’ Seminar At The Gracie Academy

“little” Tony Pacenski (http://www.soulfight.net/) attended the Rickson Gracie “Invisible Jiu-Jitsu’ seminar at the Gracie academy in Los Angeles and wrote this seminar report...

Submission strategy with Stephen Whittier

  So we asked Stephen Whittier about submission strategy, especially involving stronger guys. How does your body want to move First things first, in order to submit something you need to have...

Rising Star Edwin Najmi On His Training Under Romulo Barral & His Armenian Roots

  Edwin Najmi is a world class purple belt active competitor who trains under BJJ legend Romilo Barral. He also runs agreat FB page and website Best Of BJJ. Check out what this rising star has...

France’s Luc ‘Doberman’ Rousseau On His Trainings In Poland & BJJ Travels

Frenchman Luc Rousseau has been living a crazy BJJ life that has taken him all over the world with his gi. The BJJ brown belt is currently training and competing in Poland. In this interview with BJJ...

Metamoris II Results & Review

  The evening started with Victor Estima vs JT Torres: This was a 20 mins footlock battle with reaping (since this wasn’t IBJJF rules). The whole fight pretty much consisted of leg...

Marcus Buchecha Seminar In Amsterdam, June 13th.

On June 13th, the 6x Jiu Jitsu World Champion Marcus Almeida ‘Buchecha’ will give a seminar in Holland for the first time ever. Marcus ‘Buchecha’ is the current black belt...

Metamoris 2: Ralek Gracie’s Prediction For The Kron Gracie Vs Shinya Aoki Main Event

Metamoris returns with another blockbuster card featuring six matches contested by world-class practitioners of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The unique format combining 20-minute single-round matches with...

How Bigger Muscles Will Slow You Down And Gas You Out In Jiu-Jitsu

By Guillaume Huni In my years training Jiu-Jitsu, I’ve experimented with different weight classes and was able to measure the impact of extra muscle mass on my Jiu-Jitsu performance. Many...

Roger Gracie On His MMA Career, His View on BJJ Today & Kyra Gracie Venturing Into MMA

Source: (translated from Portuguese from sportv.com). Roger Gracie . At 31, he is already a 10 times Jiu-Jitsu World Champion but he has been searching for new challenges, starting in 2006, in a...