Gregor Gracie Shows A Really Easy Option From Seated Guard
Jan 17, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
When you’re the top player in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu match, it’s usually going to be you who’s going to control the pace of the bout. However, if the bottom player knows what he’s doing,...
Gregor Gracie Shares Important BJJ Smash Passing Advice
Jan 14, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
If you have been doing BJJ for any length of time you have asked yourself this question! Rickson Gracie once said, “the guard is the heart and soul of jiu jitsu”. If you haven’t already...
Rodolfo Vieira: “It’s Difficult To Say Who’s The GOAT – It’s Between Gordon And Roger”
Dec 16, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Who’s the greatest of all time (the GOAT) in grappling? Rodolfo Vieira isn’t sure of the answer either, as he sees Gordon Ryan and Roger Gracie being neck-to-neck for the title. Vieira...
(Video): Rickson Gracie Competing in Sambo & Going For Leg Locks
Aug 13, 2022BJJEE
Rickson like many other Gracies cross trained in other grappling arts with his brother Rolls who tried to integrate the Brazilian national wrestling team with the goal of to competing at the Moscow...
Royler Gracie Gets Inducted Into The ADCC Hall Of Fame
Dec 28, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
It’s official – Royler Gracie is the newest ADCC Hall of Fame inductee! The organization shared the news on their Instagram account: View this post on Instagram A post...
Kyra Gracie Inducted Into The ADCC Hall Of Fame
Dec 15, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Kyra Gracie, one of the only two women in the Gracie family to have achieved the black belt rank in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, has now been inducted into the ADCC Hall of Fame! The ADCC shared the news on...
The Legendary Tale Of BJJ Icon Renzo Gracie
Nov 22, 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...
Rickson Gracie’s Closed Guard Cross Collar Choke Secrets Shared by Henry Akins
Sep 22, 2021BJJEE
Let’s remind ourselves of the most important thing you need to do when you have someone in your closed guard: attack at all times. Many jiujiteiros make a mistake of holding a closed guard for a...
Kywan Gracie Defeated Conor McGregor in BJJ Competition: ‘His Ground Game is Weak’
Aug 30, 2021BJJEE
Photo: Jiu-Jitsu style Gracie Behring, son of the legendary Marcelo Behring and a black belt under Roger Gracie was the last man to defeat Conor McGregor in a BJJ competition match. It was during the...
A Blow By Blow Account Of The Rickson Gracie vs Yoji Anjo Closed Door Fight
Jun 25, 2021BJJEE
Japanese pro wrestling superstar Nobuhiko Takada had been calling out the legendary Brazilian fighter Rickson Gracie, who did not even acknowledge him. Yoji Anjo, a famous pro-wrestler back in Japan,...
How to Tailor Jiu-Jitsu to your Body Type by Renzo Gracie
May 07, 2021BJJEE
A Grappler’s game starts to develop after around 4 years of training or around a purple belt in BJJ. However, that doesn’t stop a white or blue belt from experimenting with different things....
Greatest Rivalries of Jiu-Jitsu: Gracie Barra vs. Alliance
Apr 20, 2021BJJEE
Many team rivalries have left significant marks in the history of BJJ. Although BJJ`s roots go down to just one family, through the years practitioners of this martial art have divisioned themselves...
Roger Ver, World’s First Investor in Bitcoin Is a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Feb 17, 2021BJJEE
Roger Ver is the World’s first Investor in Bitcoin startups including Bitcoin.com , Blockchain.com , Z.cash , BitPay, Kraken, Purse.io. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment...
Breaking: Ralph Gracie Receives Six Months Prison Sentence For Assaulting Flavio Almeida
Jan 19, 2021BJJEE
Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA legend Ralph Gracie has been today sentenced to six months in prison for having assaulted Flavio Almeida back in December 2018. Brazilian news outlet Tatame first reported...
When Gracie Misbehave: Gracie Family Dramas & Misbehaviors in History
Sep 10, 2020BJJEE
“People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.” – Bo Bennett Jiu-Jitsu as we know it today would have never happened if it hadn’t been...
The Top 5 Most Successful Jiu-Jitsu Competitors From The Gracie Family
Aug 02, 2020BJJEE
The following is a list of the top Gracies that have competed in history and is based on a mixture of results and impact on the BJJ scene. 5. Rolls Gracie Another Gracie legend from the golden days...
Mauricio Motta Gomes: BJJ Came To Exist Thanks To a Chance Meeting Of Maeda And Gracie at Circus
Mar 02, 2020BJJEE
Mauricio Motta Gomes is a bjj veteran and a father of jiu-jitsu in the United Kingdom. Gomes had been doing bjj since he was about 5, as his own father was a fan of the martial art. But perhaps one...
The Incredible Story Of The American Wrestler Who Trained Rolls Gracie
Feb 08, 2020BJJEE
This is the true story of how a high level wrestler Bob Anderson trained in Brazil in 1978 with jiu jitsu legend Rolls Gracie and he rest of the Gracie family. In the late 70’s and 80’s in...
Gracie Family & Wrestling, Cross Training Throughout History
Feb 08, 2020BJJEE
Back in 2014, brothers Rolles & Igor (sons of the legendary Rolls Gracie) and their half brother Gregor Gracie all participated in wrestling exhibition matches in New York at the Grapple...
Kyra Gracie’s Great Detail To Finish The Omoplata
Jan 29, 2020BJJEE
The omoplata may be the most underrated submission in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It is not utilized often at the highest levels of bjj but it is an excellent submission. We have seen omoplata’s executed...
Keenan Cornelius On Helio & Rickson Gracie: ‘Their Level Was Probably Tough Purple Belt’
Aug 18, 2019BJJEE
There are many stories of Rickson Gracie manhandling and submitting BJJ world champions when they came to visit him in his academy during the 90’s. One of the names that come up are bjj greats...
Gracie Family on Kron Gracie’s UFC debut win: “He’s at the level of Demian Maia & Jacare”
Feb 20, 2019BJJEE
Gracie Family may have been one part of a reason why Ben Askren made such scathing comments yesterday. The Gracies have never been too shy to toot their own horn – and with Kron it’s no...
Crolin Gracie Condemned Ralph Gracie’s Actions Only To Be Slammed By Kyra & Vera Gracie
Feb 06, 2019BJJEE
Crolin Gracie released a portuguese rant describing Ralph’s actions and attack on Flavio Almeida as “crocodilization” and short of worthy of the Gracie family name. However...
Clark Gracie Injured – Gracie Pro Main event Now Durinho v Sergio Moraes
Sep 20, 2018BJJEE
Gracie Pro had struggled a great deal to find a worthy follow up to Roger Gracie v Buchecha. It seemed as tho finding another Gracie to headline would be incentive enough for a while there even...
