Chair Throwing Instructor ‘Apologizes’: ‘That White Belt Disrespected Me’
Jul 23, 2018BJJEE
BJJ competitions can get heated. Still no matter how heated things get chair throwing must be a first. Instructor Ulpiano Malachias was recently filmed throwing a chair at a white belt competitor who...
Instructor Filmed Throwing a Chair At a 19-year-old White Belt Competitor Who Defeated His Student
Jul 23, 2018BJJEE
BJJ competitions can get heated. Still no matter how heated things get chair throwing must be a first. Instructor Ulpiano Malachias was recently filmed throwing a chair at a white belt competitor who...
White Belt Enters All Ranks Absolute And Leg Locks His Way To Gold – in staggering 3 Minutes
Jun 25, 2018BJJEE
Leglocks have been at the center of the bjj zeitgeist for quite some time. Cases like this are just why. Competitor named James Hunt had an easy time finishing a blue and a purple belt in Australian...
Powerlifting Legend Competes at White Belt Level at Worlds – Wins 2nd Place
Jun 02, 2018BJJEE
Jiu jitsu is all about the little guy defeating the big guy but nobody can turn away when a 350 lbs powerlifting legend enters their bracket. Chad Wesley Smith is a top 10 ranked powerlifter of all...
White Belts Throw Punches at Podium of IBJJF Worlds
Jun 02, 2018BJJEE
It’s very rare to see brawls at BJJ tournaments, especially at one as prestigious as the 2018 IBJJ worlds. These 2 two white belts exchanged strikes at the podium at the Novice worlds in a...
Tom DeBlass Indulges Young White Belt Fan In BJJ Super Match
Jan 21, 2018BJJEE
DeBlass recently received the third stripe on his black belt however that didn’t stop him from indulging a young man’s fantasy: Tom DeBlass On Why He Doesn’t Believe...
Mahamed Aly’s Takedown Sparring with 155kgs “White Belt”
Jan 17, 2018BJJEE
Mahamed Aly is one of the best takedown artists in BJJ today. Who can forget his monster harai goshi on Roberto Cyborg? or his beautiful footsweeps at ADCC: In this video he shows how he works on...
Grandmaster Flavio Behring Celebrates 70 years of Jiu-Jitsu By replacing his Red Belt with a White Belt
Nov 16, 2017BJJEE
In brazilian jiu jitsu few published guidelines or standards determine when a practitioner is ready for promotion; the criterion is generally determined by individual instructors...
The Impassable Guard – White Belt Granby Roll
Sep 06, 2017BJJEE
The Granby roll is a wrestling reversal named for Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, where it was popularized by teacher and hall of fame wrestling coach Billy Martin. A Granby roll is...
UPDATE: Brendan Schaub Clarifies Being Demoted From Brown To White Belt At Gracie Academy
May 30, 2017BJJEE
Brandan Schaub is a retired football player, former UFC fighter and American podcaster. He is known to the grappling community through his tenure in the UFC, being featured in Metamoris...
Yair Rodriguez: ‘I’m A White Belt. BJJ Belts Don’t Matter in MMA’
May 10, 2017BJJEE
Yair Rodríguez is a Mexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt currently competing in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is ranked #7 in...
BJJ Blue Belt Demotes Himself To White Belt To Train At Gracie Academy
Mar 18, 2017BJJEE
Demoting a student in Jiu-Jitsu is very rare. Under normal circumstances, everybody deserves their belt. Rener Gracie today stated that a BJJ blue belt that had trained at a reputable Sport BJJ...
Travis Stevens Goes To BJJ Academy As An Undercover White Belt
Mar 16, 2017BJJEE
Travis goes to a BJJ academy as an undercover white belt! Travis Stevens aka ‘The Judo Silencer’ is a Olympic silver medalist judoka from the United States who competed in 2008, 2012 and...
Instructor Demotes Student From Blue To White Belt
Feb 06, 2017BJJEE
If you’re a Blue, Purple or Brown Belt should you have to restart over if your instructor thinks that you don’t know enough about their system? What do you think? Demoting a student in Jiu-Jitsu...
White Belt: Where Your Willpower is Forged
Oct 24, 2016BJJEE
Written by Jakub Trojan The Beginning Every person who trains, trained or will be training bjj has something in common – they all were a white belt once. The first step into Brazilian jiu-jitsu...
White Belt Develops Brutal Choke; Taps Everyone With It
Oct 11, 2016BJJEE
Jiu-Jitsu is limitless. There are always new techniques that come up and anybody can develop new techniques, even white belts! Tony Pacenski who is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Rodrigo...
CM Punks Receives First Stripe on His BJJ White Belt
Sep 01, 2016BJJEE
In the latest episode of ‘The Evolution of Punk”: After months of rehabbing a shoulder injury, CM Punk is eager to get back in the gym. Once he’s finally cleared to train...
UFC’s Clay Guida trains with BJJ Gi and white belt
Jun 23, 2016BJJEE
Clay “The Carpenter” Guida is training jiu-jitsu in a gi! The 34 year old Alum of Strikeforce, WEC and Shooto chose to join the Gracie Barra team training out of San...
Rodolfo Vieira: ‘I Feel Like a White Belt in MMA’
Jun 21, 2016BJJEE
5x jiu-jitsu world champion at black belt, Rodolfo Vieira is preparing his transition to MMA. He has signed a contract with Japan based Real Fight Championship. His debut was initially planned...
White Belt Challenges Black Belt Instructor: Choked To Sleep & Left on Floor
May 24, 2016BJJEE
According to Brazilian sources: The backstory is that a beginner came to train at this BJJ academy in Brazil and asked to roll with the instructor, in a disrespectful manner. The black belt...
BJJ Brown Belt Carlos Condit On Starting Over Again at White Belt
May 10, 2016BJJEE
Photo credit: Will Fox UFC welterweight and BJJ brown belt Carlos Condit has taken his first Gi Jiu-Jitsu ever last week, at Gracie Barra New Mexico under professor Roberto Tussa. He joins...
Sandbagger At World Pro: Blue Belt Competes As White Belt & Wins Open Weight
Apr 22, 2016BJJEE
Sandbagging is a term used in martial arts to denote a practitioner who competes at a skill-bracket deemed less rigorous than their actual level of competitive ability. The term is adopted...
8th Degree Red & White Belt Ricardo Murgel: ‘Always Be A Student of Our Jiu-Jitsu’
Mar 29, 2016BJJEE
BJJEE had the honour of interviewing a true Gentleman of Jiu-Jitsu: 8th degree red and white belt, Ricardo Murgel. He is the founder and master of Union Team and has affiliates worldwide,...
Holly Holm Puts On White Belt & Works on Jiu-Jitsu with The Best
Mar 15, 2016BJJEE
After her heartbreaking submission loss to Miesha Tate two weeks ago where she lost her UFC belt, Holly Holm is back on the mats and working on her Jiu-Jitsu. The former champ is known for her...
