3 Fights That Changed The Direction of BJJ further Away from MMA
Apr 30, 2020BJJEE
Guest post by Howard Liu, owner of Howard Combat Kimonos and instructor at Strong Sports Gym. As we all know pure BJJ fighters have lost their dominance in MMA and with that, the practice of BJJ...
12 Best BJJ Academies To Visit In Rio De Janeiro
Mar 14, 2020BJJEE
I came across a list of top 8 BJJ Academies to visit in Rio made from Gameness. It’s hard to single out just 8 academies in Rio. I spent 2 months training there in 2002, and I was amazed at how...
The Most Common Submissions In MMA
Mar 04, 2020BJJEE
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...
How To Develop Explosive Power for Grappling Using Plyometrics
Feb 27, 2020BJJEE
Written by Funk Roberts of FunkMMA.com Plyometrics: A type of exercise using explosive movements to develop muscular power, esp. bounding, hopping, and jumping. Combat Athletes are...
Guy Pretends That The Match is Over Then Goes For A Submission
Dec 30, 2019BJJEE
How you ever seen a ghost? Last year at the Pan championships, we saw a ghost. Atos black belt Mike Perez used a Ghosting strategy when they pretended that the match had been interrupted or finished...
The Art of the ‘Brazilian Tap’ aka The Fake Tap
Dec 30, 2019BJJEE
A ‘Brazilian Tap’ or a Fake Tap is the act of tapping out just once, or tapping discretely out of the referee’s field of vision, in order to get out of a submission (so the...
The Biggest Team Switches & Break Ups In Jiu-Jitsu History
Dec 23, 2019BJJEE
“jiu-jitsu é a única arte marcial que tem família” (Jiu-Jitsu is the only martial art that has a family) Team switching in Jiu-Jitsu is a very controversial topic that will always provoke...
Can Training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Make You A Complete Martial Artist?
Dec 23, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by Henry Akins, the third American to receive a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt from legendary fighter Rickson Gracie. Akins trained under Rickson Gracie for 15 years. Akins became...
4 Top Tips on How to Defeat Younger, More Athletic Grapplers
Dec 11, 2019BJJEE
Losing speed and explosiveness with age and can’t train as much as you’d like? This is for you. When you hit your mid 30’s and your body starts to slow down and you can’t...
Brendan Schaub: ‘BJJ Specialists Are The Worst Specialists In MMA’
Oct 25, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
In his recent Below The Belt podcast episode, Brendan Schaub – a former MMA fighter and a stand-up comedian – has spoken, amongst other things, about Kron Gracie’s recent UFC fight versus...
Augusto Frota, From Swiss Banker to Pro MMA Fighter To BJJ Instructor & Businessman
Aug 02, 2019BJJEE
Last year, Augusto Frota made a triumphant return to BJJ competition after not having competed in over 12 years. The former Shooto Europe MMA champion and BJJ black belt was focused on growing his...
Bjj Instructor Attacks Former Student Who Changed Academies
Apr 11, 2019BJJEE
Anderson Silva’s former coach recently confronted a former student of his in Curtiba: The video has been making rounds around the internet with some stunned reactions. As you can see from the...
Nick Diaz Not Into Spider Rematch: I Just Want To Party
Feb 13, 2019BJJEE
Nick Diaz has been happy rubbing shoulders with AJ Agazarm and partying for the last year. The scary fighter has been content to sit on the sidelines as his legal troubles got resolved. And it...
Dana White confirms Jorge Masvidal vs. Nick Diaz is Cancelled
Jan 02, 2019BJJEE
Nick Diaz octagon return is no more. UFC’s Dana White confirmed yesterday : “I think that’s pretty clear,” said White. “All you’ve got to do is look at [Diaz’s] Instagram. I don’t...
6 Activities That Will Positively Impact Your Jiu-Jitsu
Aug 19, 2018BJJEE
You probably have heard the saying: “If you want to get better at Jiu-Jitsu, then do Jiu-Jitsu.”. It’s true, nothing beats actually training in Jiu-Jitsu in order to improve your...
Khabib Goes The Full Distance With Iaquinta- Thanks Putin, Calls Out GSP
Apr 08, 2018BJJEE
Khabib Nurmagomedov got a surprisingly tough opponent after all. The Matt Serra camp produced a fearless opponent who stepped up and fought the now undisputed lightweight champion in a single...
Demian Maia Grapples an Amazon Indian
Mar 13, 2018BJJEE
BJJ black belt and UFC welterweight Demian Maia recently tried something different. He tried his hand at Huka-Huka. Huka-huka is a Brazilian folk wrestling style of the indigenous people of Xingu, in...
Ten Years After His UFC Debut, Demian Maia Has Accumulated A 19-7 UFC record
Oct 28, 2017BJJEE
Demian Maia is perhaps the biggest ambassador of the jiu-jitsu community in the Octagon. Just last week marked the 10 years since he made his professional debut in the UFC Octagon...
Steven Seagal Got Challenged By George Foreman
Oct 03, 2017BJJEE
Actor and 7th degree aikido black belt Steven Seagal got a very strange challenge recently. He was challenged by world class boxer George Foreman to what just might be the strangest...
Usher Is Doing Jiu-Jitsu Alongside Andre Galvao
Jul 19, 2017BJJEE
There are quite a few celebrity practitioners of jiu-jitsu. One more to have been confirmed is rnb singer Usher. Usher was first exposed to jiu-jitsu via the Rigan Machado flow-jitsu...
Tyron Woodley : Maia (And Jiu Jitsu) Don’t get Enough Credit In The UFC
May 24, 2017BJJEE
It’s long been speculated that the UFC is losing some of the respect it had for bjj since it’s initial days. Now even Demian Maia’s next opponent is ready to confirm...
Great Tactical Analysis Of What to Expect From Demian Maia vs Masvidal
May 06, 2017BJJEE
Jack Slack is a pen name of a unknown freelancer famous for his great coverage of combat sports. In the latest feature he’s turned attention to the event every jiu-jiteiro can’t...
Pedro Valente: “We Teach Overeem How To Protect From Strikes On The Ground”
Apr 07, 2017BJJEE
Professor Pedro Valente Jr.. was recently a guest on the best BJJ podcast Grappling central podcast where he talked about various interesting topics such as self defense, practical training...
Carlson Gracie Jr. Outlines Carlson Gracie Gym’s Graduation System
Mar 22, 2017BJJEE
Getting promoted is no easy feat in bjj, and it used to be even harder. You can read many interesting stories of old times around the web, times when even a blue belt would be a rarity...
