Want To Listen To A BJJ PODCAST? Here Are The 6 BEST ONES
Nov 30, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
Investing additional time into (positional) rolls, drills, watching Youtube videos and instructionals, asking your coach to help you, going for private training sessions… Lifting weights, doing...
Does Belt Rank Matter in 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu?
Oct 24, 2020BJJEE
If you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, you have probably noticed how big of a deal belts are. You often hear BJJ practitioners saying how bad they want to achieve their next belt. A recent question mailed...
How Should You Roll With Someone That You Don’t Know?
Oct 07, 2020BJJEE
If you’re a higher level BJJ belt, it is likely the case that you often go easy on the lower belts or someone new at the academy and probably for a good reason – you don’t want to get their...
Experiencing Pain In Your Forearms? These BJJ-Specific Exercises Will Help
Sep 16, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
Grips! So important, yet so rarely given the proper focus. However, you already know that, so you’ve been practicing your grip fighting skills as often as you can and you’re gripping the...
How To Hide Your BJJ Submission Set Ups
Sep 12, 2020BJJEE
It’s always good to have some tricks up your sleeve. When rolling, you should focus on setting traps and sneaky submissions that can catch even higher ranks. BJJ black belt Nick ‘Chewy’...
“Should I Leave my Current BJJ Gym to Train with John Danaher?”
Aug 24, 2020BJJEE
Every BJJ competitor wants to reach the pinnacle of the sport and sit among the elite of his division. That’s why we all grind on the mats, in the weights room, we sacrifice time with family and...
Fundamental Guard Passing Detail Every Jiujiteiro Needs To Know
Aug 04, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
Photo by Daria Kochetkova Photography. IG: Tebezvonu. Guard passing is no easy business! There are many different elements that you have to take into consideration when approaching the training...
How to Deadlift and Avoid Back Pain If You Train BJJ
Jul 29, 2020BJJEE
Why Deadlifts for BJJ athletes? Deadlifts are arguably the exercise with the biggest ‘Bang For Your Buck’ and translates the best for jiu-jitsu in terms of functional strength. It radically...
Learn This Simple Knee Cut Pass To Backtake Sequence With JT Torres
Jul 28, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
The Knee Cut Pass is one of those techniques that you were probably shown during your first training sessions – one, which you now revisit on a fairly frequent basis. But no matter how many times...
Use The Hip Bump Sweep To Set Up These 3 Attacks
Jul 05, 2020BJJEE1 Admin
You’ve probably been introduced to the Hip Bump Sweep way back in the day, and you’re probably seeing it work much less frequently than it was the case before. The reason for this,...
Attendance Based Belt Promotions in BJJ Rob You Blind
Apr 07, 2020BJJEE
The McDojo phenomenon is a plague that has infected martial arts schools all over the world. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has not been spared by this. What exactly is a McDojo you may ask? It’s basically...
These Are the Highest Percentage Choke Set Ups From Closed Guard
Feb 24, 2020BJJEE
In the previous article of our Weekly White Belt Advice Series we have covered closed guard sweeps, so it makes sense to take a good look into the highest percentage closed guard chokes in this one....
These Are The Highest Percentage Armlock Set Ups From Guard
Feb 24, 2020BJJEE
In the previous article of our Weekly White Belt Advice Series we have covered closed guard sweeps, so it makes sense to take a good look into closed guard arm attacks in this one. Sweeps and...
Tap Anyone From Inside Their Closed Guard
Oct 27, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
Being inside somebody’s closed guard can often be a nightmare because of the constant necessity to open and pass it, as well as because of the constant danger of being swept and...
Weekly White Belt Advice: Closed Guard Sweeps
Aug 19, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
In the previous article of our Weekly White Belt Advice series, we’ve talked about the very basics of the closed guard – what it is, its defensive and offensive purpose and the body...
Ben Askren Compares Training in Wrestling & BJJ
Aug 13, 2019BJJEE
Askren was a guest on the Joe Rogan Podcast where he criticised the training methods of BJJ schools and what he sees as a lack of drilling. He also talked about the lack of sense of doing 5 minute...
Tips For Big Grapplers Going Against Smaller Opponents
Jul 21, 2019grappler z
If you’re the bigger guy on the mats, you definitely want to have rolling partners who stick around, and you probably don’t want to come across as the bully, just focused on going for the top...
Is Ben Askren Right? Are BJJ Schools Doing it ALL Wrong
Jul 28, 2018BJJEE
Askren was a guest on the Joe Rogan Podcast where he criticised the training methods of BJJ schools and what he sees as a lack of drilling. He also talked about the lack of sense of doing 5 minute...
How To Roll with Women in Bjj (Don’t Be an A*%hole)
Jan 22, 2018grappler z
If you’re a man, how do you roll with women in your BJJ gym? Do you roll with no strength, do you match their strength and intensity or do you smash them? Chewy, gives some great advice on how to...
