Here’s How To Build A Game Plan For Your First BJJ Competition
Sep 16, 2019BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve Vacation. The Evolve Vacation Program offers travelers the rare opportunity of a lifetime to combine a tropical vacation under the sun with authentic training under World...
Rickson Gracie’s Alpha Teaching Style: Why Does He Embarrass Students?
Sep 14, 2019BJJEE
“What I dont like about Rickson is his teaching style. He embarrasses people by putting them on the spot and many times even gets frustrated. He even changes his level of difficulty and adds...
These 10th Planet Warm-Up Sequences Will Improve Your Game
Sep 06, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
The 10th Planet warm-up approach has received a lot of credit due to its ingenuity. And that’s for a good reason – it is easy to apply and it leads to better performance. In these two videos,...
Avoid Getting Submited by Using the Simple ‘Keep the Family Together’ Concept
Sep 06, 2019BJJEE
Photo: John Liot. Written by Lionel Mescam, BJJ black belt belt, instructor at Le Cercle BJJ academy in Paris, France In July 2013, I attended my first seminar on Jersey island with Braulio ESTIMA....
How To Become Un-Submittable in Jiu-Jitsu
Sep 05, 2019BJJEE
There are multiple things you have to learn when it comes to your defense plan in Jiu Jitsu: escapes, counters, proper posturing, etc. If you are having a problem with your defense and you’re...
Sleeping With Jiu-Jitsu Teammates: Dangerous Game?
Sep 02, 2019BJJEE
What exactly happens when we mix romantic love with our love of jiu-jitsu? Well this is a scenario everyone sees from time to time! The desire to share an activity we love with a new...
Police Officer Gets Guillotine Choked by a 15-Year Old
Aug 29, 2019BJJEE
Footage has emerged of 15 year old high schooler putting a police officer in a guillotine choke from closed guard during an altercation that occurred in a high school in Gold Coast, Australia. Police...
Stopping The Knee Slice Pass Before it Even Starts with Xande Ribeiro
Aug 22, 2019BJJEE
Knee slice is one of the highest guard passes in BJJ. It works really well against bottom half guard players that like to either play knee shield or to drop their shield play a Lucas Leite style...
Learn Claudio Calasans’ Nasty Wrislock Set Ups
Aug 05, 2019BJJEE
2015 world BJJ and ADCC world champion Claudio Calasans shows us 2 very effective yet simple wrist lock techniques from the closed guard and from the back. From closed guard: From the...
Weekly White Belt Advice: An Introduction to The Series!
Aug 04, 2019BJJEE1 Admin
Being a BJJ white belt is far from easy. The surroundings are new, the pressure – not just the psychological one, but the one from being inside your training partner’s side control as well...
How To Set Up The Legendary ‘Helio Gracie Choke’
Aug 03, 2019BJJEE
For the choke, there are no “tough guys”. With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep. Helio Gracie It was said that Grandmaster...
Jedi Trick: How to Know What Your Opponent is Going to Do Next
Jul 21, 2019BJJEE
Have you ever rolled with a high level BJJ black belt and felt like they were just playing with you? Whatever you do, your black belt opponent seems to be one or two steps ahead of you. They can see...
Top Three Reasons for Children’s Belt Testing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Jun 05, 2019Ben Germano
If your academy is like many others, the children Jiu-Jitsu curriculum has different belts and roughly follows the IBJJF guidelines for these belts. Belts are awarded when the student display’s a...
The Gold Standard to Finishing Omoplata by Shawn Williams
May 09, 2019BJJEE
The omoplata is highly underestimated submission/sweep in Jiu-Jitsu because not many people know the fine details which make it so effective. There seems to be a common misconception among the bjj...
Garry Tonon Puts On Impressive GNP Clinic at One
Mar 31, 2019BJJEE
Garry Tonon was once again in the cage this Sunday in Japan. The event in question was ONE: A New Era. The BJJ champion Cruised on to his 4th stoppage victory in his MMA career. The American grappler...
Using “Old School” BJJ To Demolish “New School” BJJ
Feb 05, 2019BJJEE
Often times when training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu we will here some people refer to their Jiu Jitsu as “Old School.” Some people will say “I have an old school game.” What does...
Drysdale Questions If Fadda lineage is a Non-Gracie lineage
Jan 07, 2019BJJEE
Robert Drysdale has recently dedicated himself to authoring a bjj documentary. It was to be called Closed guard – the movie. In order to do this Drysdale shared bits relating to interesting bjj...
Danaher on How An Older Part Time Grappler Can Defeat World Class Athletes in Competition
Dec 24, 2018BJJEE
Can an older athlete, working a busy professional career and many other demands from marriage and family etc train to be competitive with the best Jiu jitsu athletes in the world who are much younger...
NO GI BJJ CAMP w/ Lauri & Elvira Karppinen 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu in Belgrade, Serbia
Sep 02, 2018BJJEE
Kimura BJJ Serbia Academy will be hosting an amazing 2 day No Gi BJJ Camp with 10th planet Jiu-Jitsu standouts Lauri & Elvra Karppinen from Finland. Price is just 10 eur for the day camp payable...
Vagner Rocha Demonstrates His Nasty Wrist Lock From Kasai Pro 3
Aug 21, 2018BJJEE
Vagner Rocha took second place at last weekend’s Kasai Pro 3 losing to Renato Canuto. He made waves with a nasty wrist lock on Marcin Held (verbal Tap) which went viral: Gulp , guess that...
4 Really Dumb Things BJJ Nerds Say & Do
Jul 26, 2018BJJEE
Guest post by Daniel Vaughan UCLA undergraduate, judo brown belt under Mike Verdugo and BJJ black belt under Master Julio Cesar Pereira. Daniel is an instructor at M3Fight Academy. 1. I weigh...
Wrestle-Jitsu: Bulgarian Wrestler’s Way Of Reversing Side Control
Jul 18, 2018BJJEE
Have you ever tried to pin or control a top level Wrestler in side control? It’s no fun at all… Check out this interesting take on how a top-level wrestler would go about escaping side...
Team 10th Planet Wins Quintet 2
Jul 16, 2018BJJEE
Team 10th Planet has pulled off an impressive triumph at Quintet’s official second event. Rules: Each team has 5 members Total team weight must not exceed 430kg Openweight Winner is...
IBJJF Rule Changes For 2018 Go Live July 2nd – No Definitive Language Regarding Advantages
Jun 14, 2018BJJEE
Below is the list of updated rules – Guide for 2018 RULES UPDATE GUIDE – 2018 PAGE 7 1.3 Referee Duties Rule revision: 1.3.7 • While standing, one of the athletes steps into the...
