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Marcelo Garcia Shows How To Set Up The Perfect Guillotine

Marcelo Garcia is one of the bjj greats. His weapon of choice was often the Guillotine with which he submitted quite a few big names. Among them are: Victor Estima, Josh Hinger, Kron Gracie, Mike...

High Rollerz 7: Team Cops vs. Team Stonerz (With Guest Commentary by Jorge Masvidal)

Marijuana and sports? It’s been a point of debate and controversy for quite some time, with mixed martial arts being no exception. A lot of athletes in the MMA circles smoke it on the regular...

5 Modern Day Female MMA Fighters To Watch

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...

Polaris 17: Craig Jones vs. Davi Ramos Main Event Announced

The last three Polaris events were a bit unorthodox, as they followed a unique team format called Polaris Squads. However, Polaris is making a return to their traditional superfight format on October...

Watch: Craig Jones Rolls With Entire 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Gym

Craig Jones has been travelling a lot lately, as a part of his seminar tour. And recently, a footage from 10th Planet Austin emerged of him rolling with everyone in the gym! Throughout the entire...

Polaris 17: Craig Jones Set To Defend Middleweight Title

The last three Polaris events were a bit unorthodox, as they followed a unique team format called Polaris Squads. Now, however, Polaris is making a return to their traditional superfight format with...

5 Of The Best Boxers In MMA History

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...

What This Plant Based BJJ Practitioner Easts in a Day

If you’re serious about your Jiu-Jitsu, then you’ve got to be serious about your diet as well. Great training requires a great meal – if you want to recover properly and perform greatly in...

BJJ Practitioner Shares the Good & Bad of Following a Plant Based Diet For the Past 3 Years

It’s a common misconception that athletes cannot eat a plant-based diet, because it does not provide the protein they need. In fact, many world class athletes are vegetarians or vegans. Here are...

Should Your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Training Really Include Weapons Defense?

Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter cascao vital and runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. There was a time when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was actually trained for self...

Is it Insane To Have a BJJ Tournament During the Pandemic?

The Coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on various sectors of society. In Jiu-Jitsu, the IBJJF had its main events postponed – World, Brazilian and Pan – and has not organized a...

Without Any Event for 7 Months, IBJJF Announces Pan & Opens in the USA; Brazilian Athletes Question Decision

The Coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on various sectors of society. In Jiu-Jitsu, the IBJJF had its main events postponed – World, Brazilian and Pan – and has not organized...

When To Return To BJJ after an Injury Explained by BJJ Black Belt/Doctor

To get injured is something one should never wish to any opponent on the mats, since we know how hard it is. We are in a sport where there is so much manipulation of the body and often it is...

Learn Craig Jones’ 3 Signature Moves That Make Him So Successful

Craig Jones is one of the very few Australian athletes who brought their continent to the world grappling map. He made that happen with his quick rise to the top submitting many big names on his way....

How Elite Grapplers Cross-Train in Other Grappling Sports (BJJ-Judo-Wrestling-Sambo)

“BJJ Players Will Never Reach Their Full Potential Unless They Cross Train In Other Grappling Arts.” John Danaher Grappling is big family which includes Judo, Sambo, Wrestling, BJJ, Catch...

How is Jiu-Jitsu for MMA Different From Just Training Jiu-Jitsu? 

A couple of years ago Conor McGregor was doing an interview about the possibility of his Mayweather fight and he made a metaphor that compared MMA to spinning multiple plates at the same time. This...

How John Danaher Uses Kaizen Principles To Improve His Student’s Jiu-Jitsu

Kaizen is a Japanese word which means “change for better”. The best translation for it in English language would be improvement”. Kaizen is any kind of improvement, one-time or...

How To Take Care Of Your Body So That You Can Train Jiu-Jitsu Into Your Old Age

The life of a martial artist comes with many burdens, among them constant aches and pains as well as a chronic lack of time. There’s no solution that will allow you to be constantly injury free...

Marcelo Garcia Reveals The Secret To His Infamous North-South Choke

Marcelo Garcia is one of the bjj greats. His weapon of choice was often the Guillotine with which he submitted quite a few big names. Among them are: Victor Estima, Josh Hinger, Kron Gracie, Mike...

Draculino Blasts 10th Planet JJ, “American Jiu-Jitsu”: There Is Only Jiu-Jitsu

Vinicius „Draculino“ Magalhães is a fifth-degree black belt under the legendary founder of Gracie Barra, Carlos Gracie Jr. A part of the „golden generation“ of BJJ, he has trained with other...

What To Do With Someone That Doesn’t Respect the Tap in BJJ

“Checkmate! That one word captures the elegance of chess, where the goal of the game is to take your opponent’s King, but the final move is never played. Rather, players try to maneuver their...

Top Guillotine Artists in Grappling

  Guillotine is a one of the easiest techniques for a beginner to get. Many say that the simple mechanic and an intuitive understanding make it an integral part of the game of many beginners but...

This is How Marcelo Garcia Escapes a Tight Guillotine

    Marcelo Garcia is one of the bjj greats. His weapon of choice was often the Guillotine with which he submitted quite a few big names. Among them are: Victor Estima, Josh Hinger, Kron...

Epic Roll: GSP & Braulio Estima Go Back & Forth on the Mat

Back in 2011, then UFC champion Georges St Pierre came to London to improve his Jiu-Jitsu by training with Roger Gracie and Braulio Estima. A 3x black belt world champion and 3x ADCC champion,...