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Best way To Escape a Tight Side Control with Marcelo Garcia

Side Control is one of those positions you might not feel too afraid of. „Sure, I’m in a defensive position, but it isn’t so bad“, you rationalize to yourself… As your opponent isolates...

Easy Way To Escape The Grapevine From The Mount by Jean Jacques Machado

When you are stuck in bottom mount, one of the ways your opponent can control is by grapevining their legs on yours. It’s reduces your movement and there is even a leglock that they can do,...

How To Eliminate Panic When Stuck in Mount

Escaping from a dominant position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu can be very difficult especially if someone is very uncomfortable or panicking being stuck in it. As you become more experienced and familiar...

This Back Escape Technique Leads Straight To Side Control

If somebody takes your back, you’ve got a number of ways to escape at your disposal. However, most of these setups don’t have much more other than the „escape“ itself in mind; that...

Escaping Full Mount for Smaller Grapplers

The mount position is such a dominant position, and escaping it can be extremely difficult sometimes. When grappling against a bigger and stronger opponent, this is usually where they want to be....

Try These Three High Percentage Side Control Escapes, Right Now!

Side Control is one of those positions you might not feel too afraid of. „Sure, I’m in a defensive position, but it isn’t so bad“, you rationalize to yourself… As your opponent...

How To Set Up The Most Dangerous Leglock: Double Inverted Heelhook

The heel hook is a tremendous weapon, both in grappling and in MMA. While we see heel hooks more often in Grappling, they are if applied properly and keeping you far away from strikes, very effective...

You Can’t Just Give Up When Stuck In A Bad Position

Jiu Jitsu is difficult! It puts you in all kind of uncomfortable positions, which you struggle to escape from; while at the same time your opponent is figuring out how to crush your spirit even more....

These Are The Top 10 Leglockers in BJJ today

Leglock submissions are alive and kicking! It seems like lower body attacks will not go out of fashion soon and how else could it be, when time after time we witness their efficiency on the highest...

What Does Rickson Gracie Really Think About Leg Locks?

Leglocks have been at the center of the bjj zeitgeist for quite some time. They are referred to as the great equalizer. Cases like this are just why. A white belt competitor named James Hunt had an...

Essential Tips For Improving Your Guard Passing Skills

Written by Masafumi Matsumoto, a BJJ black belt from Japan who has been travelling the world, training, competing and working as a translator. ‘Masa’ is known for having a very good guard,...

Surprise Your Opponents With This Triangle Setup From Side Control

If you can surprise your opponents with a move they don’t really expect, then your chances of tapping them out increase by tenfold! One of those setups is a Triangle Choke from top Side...

Deconstructing Gordon Ryan’s TOP 3 Signature Moves

Considered to be the GOAT in No Gi grappling by many, Gordon Ryan has been the athlete who brought the most attention to him and the sport in recent years with his amazing results and controversial...

Revolutionary Way To Stop A Guard Pass When They’ve Passed Your Legs

If you’ve been following the pro BJJ scene, you may noticed many top grapplers having incredible success with a certain type of pass: The bodylock pass which is also known as the double over pass....

Doctor & BJJ Purple Belt Paints Bleak Picture on How Coronavirus Will Severely Affect BJJ Academies Worldwide

Covid 19 is affecting the worlwide BJJ community in a major way. Jiu-Jitsu is possibly the closest contact sport there is, and this is possibly the worst environment when it comes to spreading any...

Masakazu Imanari Teaches The Perefct Imanari Roll

There is a reason why Masakazu Imanari is nicknamed ‘Red belt in Leglocks’. He has made his name leglocking opppnents left and right for the past 20 years in MMA and grappling...

Caught in a Deep Arm Triangle… Just Heel Hook Them Of Course

Masakazu IMANARI!!! The Japanese legend amazes in his first match at CJJW. That escape though… You’ve never seen a rolling escape to heel hook from an arm triangle. Masakazu Imanari has...

Best Leg Lock Specialists in Grappling Today

Leg locks started as a “lesser” technique. To quote the book by Reila Gracie: “Oswaldo Fadda’s team won, making better use of their footlock knowledge, something Helio frowned upon, calling...

If You Like The Body Lock Pass, You Will Love the Reverse Body Lock Pass by Rafael Lovato Jr

If you’ve been following the pro BJJ scene, you may have noticed Lachlan Giles or the Miyao brothers having incredible success with a certain type of pass: The bodylock pass which is also known as...

Craig Jones Inside Sankaku Study

Craig Jones is one of the best grapplers today. According to BJJ Heroes, the 2019 ADCC Silver Medallist Craig Jones has one of the highest submission rate in bjj which is currently at 85%. Craig...

Every Heel Hook Finish in UFC History From 1993 to 2020

The heel hook is a tremendous weapon, both in grappling and in MMA. While we see heel hooks more often in Grappling, they are if applied properly and keeping you far away from strikes, very effective...

Do you Know When You Should Tap to a Heel Hook?

Over the years we’ve seen plenty of gruesome injuries resulting from either not knowing when to tap or not wanting to. Insanity: Miyao Brothers Refuse To Tap To Leg Locks! Garry Tonon On...

Down Under: The Amazing Growth of BJJ in Australia

Written for BJJEE.com by Gabriel Rodriguez of popular BJJ blog languagefight   Things change quickly in Australia. It is a country constantly evolving due to its ever-changing environment that...

BJJ 101: Half Guard

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...