John Danaher Explains Why Chokes Are Superior to Heel Hooks
Feb 03, 2022BJJEE
“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 Setting up chokes is an...
Best Submissions Against Bigger And Stronger Opponents In BJJ
Nov 29, 2021BJJEE
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 Grapple with Smaller Training Partners Than You
Nov 29, 2021BJJEE
If you’re the bigger guy on the mats, you definitely want to have rolling partners who stick around, and you probably don’t want to come across as the bully, just focused on going for the top...
Start Catching Everyone with Ezekiel Chokes from All Angles
Oct 12, 2021BJJEE
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...
Pedro Sauer: Dealing with Untrained & Aggressive Individuals in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Sep 28, 2021BJJEE
Professor Pedro Sauer is a special person in the BJJ world. Having trained directly under Rickson and Grand Master Helio Gracie, he was at ground zero when the movement started to gain a foothold on...
Enson Inoue’s Old School Tricks For Setting Up The Kimura
Sep 17, 2021BJJEE
MMA legend and old school BJJ black belt Enson Inoue has been retired from MMA since 2004 (he had a short comeback fight in 2010), but he has started training Jiu-Jitsu again in 2016 after taking a...
It’s All Been Done Before: “X-Guard” Used in Judo Competition in the 1980’s
Sep 03, 2021BJJEE
The x-guard is an open guard where one of the combatants is standing up and the other is on their back. The bottom combatant uses the legs to entangle one of the opponent’s legs, which creates...
Sneaky Mount Transition from Side Control by Pedro Sauer
Aug 23, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Don’t you sometimes feel as if getting into Mount from Side Control is really difficult? That, no matter how you try to do it, your training partners are always one step ahead of you and are...
BJJ’s 1st Ever Woman Black Belt Becomes 1st Woman Coral Belt After Training for 43 Years
Aug 20, 2021BJJEE
The history of women’s Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil begins at the first Gracie academy in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s, which had women enrolled – such as writer and poet Rosalina Coelho Lisboa, and...
The Blueprint For Learning BJJ Quickly is More Simple Than You Think
Aug 09, 2021BJJEE
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...
5 Amazing Martial Arts Dads To Honor On Father’s Day
Jun 20, 2021BJJEE
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 Submit a BJJ Black Belt – Pedro Sauer
Apr 27, 2021BJJEE
Unpredictability creates an endless possibility of options in combat sports. By taking advantage of not just explosive strength but rather unpredictability, a far better-skilled opponent can be...
Wicked Kimura set up from side control
Apr 04, 2021Carl Fisher
Kimura (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), chicken wing/double wrist lock (catch wrestling), or reverse keylock are terms used to specify a medial keylock known in judo as gyaku ude-garami (reverse arm...
How Should We Spell it in English: Jiu-Jitsu, Jujitsu or Jūjutsu?
Feb 03, 2021BJJEE
How should you write Jiu-Jitsu in English? The transliteration is the process of the kanji characters jū and jutsu and why Jiu-Jitsu is today the most common spelling of this ancient martial art....
Watch & Learn 49 Kimura & Americana Set Ups in Just 6 minutes
Jan 21, 2021BJJEE
Kimura (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), chicken wing/double wrist lock (catch wrestling), or reverse keylock are terms used to specify a medial keylock known in judo as gyaku ude-garami (reverse arm...
John Danaher Explains The Difference Between a Choke & a Strangle
Dec 18, 2020BJJEE
“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 Setting up chokes is an...
Russell Peters Talks His Jiu-Jitsu Journey on the Jean Jacques Machado Podcast
Nov 24, 2020BJJEE
World famous comedian Russel Peters has been doing Jiu-Jitsu for five years at the rate of 3 to 4 times a week. He was promoted to blue belt last year by BJJ legend Jean Jacques Machado. Over the...
Jiu-Jitsu Instructor Teaches Classes For Free To Transgender People To Learn To Defend Themselves
Nov 01, 2020BJJEE
“Jiu-Jitsu is for the protection of the individual: the older man, the weak, the child, the lady, and the young woman: anyone who doesn’t have the physical attributes to defend...
These Gun Disarms Should NEVER Be Taught in Martial Arts
Oct 29, 2020BJJEE
Prof. “little” Tony Pacenski explores some basic skillsets of handgun disarming from Jiu Jitsu and Combatives circles. This is a serious topic. Always training with a qualified...
What Happened with BJJ’s Global Rise
Oct 28, 2020flairnikkie@gmail.com
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a relatively new martial art. It was invented not too long ago and is constantly being innovated. This may be surprising given how it has spread around the globe and seems to...
Carlos Machado Receives 8th degree Red & White Coral Belt in Jiu-Jitsu
Oct 11, 2020BJJEE
Professor Carlos Machado, the eldest of the legendary Machado brothers has been on the mat since he was 4 years old and represents over five decades of learning, teaching, competing, and sharing in...
Jiu-Jitsu: The Art of Making Yourself Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Oct 09, 2020grappler z
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter cascao vital and runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. There are some old school lessons from Helio Gracie out there that still...
How To Build Confidence To Prevent Bullying by Ex-Navy Seal Commander & BJJ Black Belt Jocko Willink
Oct 03, 2020BJJEE
Bullying has become more prevalent than ever in middle schools and high schools, making kids feel anxious, isolated, and depressed. In many of these cases, concerned parents turn to “babying”...
Why Judo Founder Jigoro Kano Didn’t Favour Groundwork
Oct 03, 2020BJJEE
Kanō Jigorō was the founder of Judo. Judo was the first Japanese martial art to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport. Pedagogical innovations...
