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Never Tape Your Fingers Again? New Finger Sleeves For Grapplers

Finger pain is one of the realities Jiu Jitsu and most grappling practitioners face sooner or later, especially the ones that involve a kimono and thus the gripping aspect. It is that gripping that...

Why 3 BJJ Trainings Per Week Could Help You More Than Seven

Often times we hear about competitors like Miyao brothers or Gordon Ryan who have openly said that their typical day consists mostly just from several jiu-jitsu practices. An Inside Look at the Miyao...

Bellator Champ Ilima-Lei MacFarlane Suing Former Basketball Coach for Sexual Abuse

Bellator MMA flyweight champion & 10th planet brown belt Ilima-Lei Macfarlane and sister are Mahina are accusing their former basketball coach of sexually abusing them back in 2003. A lawsuit is...

BJ Penn On His Future: ‘Fighting Is The Only Thing I Have Going On In My Life Right Now’

MMA legend & BJJ world champion BJ Penn is having a hard time leaving his fighting career. The 41 year old former 2 division UFC champion & BJJ world champion hasn’t won an MMA fight in...

4 Things You Must Know About Leg Locks

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...

Marcelo Garcia On How To Use Combinations To Finish Opponents

There are so many things you can focus on in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu if you want to improve in it; such an enormous, incomprehensible amount of details… Which makes it quite easy to become lost and...

Firas Zahabi On How To Drastically Improve Your Cardio For BJJ

„How do I improve my cardio for BJJ?“ This is one of those questions that are often given a generic answer: „Just spend more time on the mats.“ But there has got to be more to it,...

Gordon Ryan Buys His Dad A Car & Plans To Buy His Mom a House From The Money He’s Made From Jiu-Jitsu

Gordon Ryan, the biggest current star in Grappling has had an amazing run in the past few years. The 24 year old has won everything there is to win in No Gi grappling: 3x ADCC world champion, EBI...

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Helped Her Escape a 12 Year Long Abusive Relationship

  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a great tool to overcome bullying and grow into self confidence. Over the years there were countless cases of people who were helped by the gentle art. The last in line...

Mikey & Tammi Musumeci Have Left Caio Terra Association

2020 is just getting crazier and crazier. 3x Black Belt world champion Mikey Musumeci has just anounced that himself and his sister Tammi have decided to part ways with Caio Terra in his CTA...

Master BJJ World Champion Nick ‘The Tooth’ Gullo Infected with Coronavirus

Nick “The Tooth” Gullo — 2019 Master black belt world champion has anounced that he has been infected by the novel coronavirus Covid 19. Gullo anounced 4 days ago on his IG that he had it. He...

Would A Navy SEAL Be a Good MMA Fighter?

Being a Navy SEAL – a member of one of the most elite special operations forces in the world – is often seen as an epitome of being in top-notch physical and mental condition, of comanding an...

Video: 16-yr-old Andy Ruiz Drops Former UFC Champ Andrei Arlovski in Sparring

The former WBA heavyweight boxing world champion Andy Ruiz has been on the low for the last few months since losing to Anthony Joshua late last year. Ruiz put himself back in the headlines when he...

Ryan Hall Defines Coward’s Approach To Competing plus Talks Mindset

    Ryan Hall is a UFC fighter, BJJ black belt, head instructor of 50/50 BJJ, an ADCC bronze medalist with a long career in high level competition throughout which he has beaten many of the...

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...

Incredible: Fellipe Andrew Escapes Deep Armbar & Transitions To Foot Lock for the Win

Fellipe Andrew made a huge impact at this year’s European championship when he won the gold in the black belt absolute in spectacular fashion. The Zenith black belt became the first man to submit...

IBJJF Bans BJJ Globetrotters Association

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotters have been growing rapidly over the last few years. Starting out as a small affiliation of Jiu Jitsu practitioners who had trouble signing up for IBJJF competitions...

How Dangerous is the Lockdown For Your Training Partners?

For people outside of the 10th Planet system, techniques such as the Lockdown, or the Electric Chair submission are often frowned upon as semi-illegal, causing severe injury or just being painfully...

How To Survive Being Smashed Repeatedly In Training

    Helio Gracie is one of the most important figures in history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His lineage and legacy are undisputed and unparalleled. He is the person most responsible for...

5 Common Nutritional Mistakes Made By Fighters

Written by Reid Reale BHlthSc(Hons), MDiet – Sports Dietitian and BJJ black belt combatsportsnutrition.com. Reid works with many of the best judo, boxing, taekwondo and wrestling athletes in...

John Danaher On How He Started Training & Early Days in Jiu-Jitsu

John Danaher is a BJJ black belt under Renzo Gracie, and is known as one of the best BJJ instructors in the world. The New Zealand born black belt has been praised by the BJJ community as being a...

Erberth Santos Backs Out Of Mikey Musumeci $10K Challenge 24 Hours After Accepting

24 hours after accepting Caio Terra’s challenge to face the rooster/light featherweight world champion Mikey Musumeci for $10,000, Erberth Santos has already backed out. Caio Terra, coach and...

Why Does Your BJJ Instructor Have To Be The Best On The Mat?

Many beginners look at different gyms when they first start out. For majority of people preparing to join the dominance instructor asserts on the mat is a deciding factor. But what about the...

Mendes Bros & AOJ Announce Their Split with Team Atos

The Mendes brothers, Guilherme and Rafael,  have decided to end their affiliation with Atos Jiu-Jitsu. They announced the split through an enigmatic Instagram post: Beginning in 2020 we will not...