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Result for: self defense

Black Friday Sales: Using Jiu-Jitsu Self Defense To Get the Advantage Over All Shoppers

Black Friday is known as the Friday which follows Thanksgiving Day in the US. Black Friday is the 4th Friday of November. In America, Black Friday actually marks the beginning of America’s...

What Should Your Focus be if You’re Training BJJ Purely for Self Defense

One can never necessarily be completely “ready” for a real self defense situation, however, we can increase our odds of surviving against a violent attacker by targeting certain moves, and...

Problems with The Guillotine Choke for Self Defense

There are so many different guillotine set ups around. You can place a guillotine from literally any position: mount, side control, back and also inferior positions such bottom side control, back etc...

Evolved Self Defense Jiu-Jitsu: Taking the Back & Submitting in a Street Altercation

It goes without saying that your goal should always be to not get involved in any sort of a street fight. It’s best to just deescalate the situation by talking with the other side; or, if that...

The Best Takedowns for Self Defense with Ricardo Almeida

When it comes to self defense, your best option is often to train in combat sports where you will have sparring matches with a fully resisting training partner and you will be putting yourself in...

Bullshido Alert: Worst Martial Arts For Self Defense

  There are many great technique videos out there but sadly quite a few rotten apples as well. One such case offers to help you knock out an adversary without touching them   Ryukyu kempo...

Ex-Navy SEAL Commander & BJJ Black Belt Jocko Willink on Why Running Away is the Best Self Defense

The Baddest Man in the BJJ World is Jocko Willink. From September of 1990 to 2010 Willink was a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander and Seal Task Unit Commander leading hundreds of operations in combat. He...

Gracies Show How To Survive an Elevator Self Defense Altercation

The biggest names in Jiu-Jitsu will tell you that the best self defense for the street is to run away: Jocko Willink Explains Why the Best Self Defense is Running Away Others will tell you to use...

Self Defense: Learn How To Defend The Dreaded Full Nelson Using Jiu-Jitsu

The full nelson (sometimes called a double nelson or a double shoulder lock) is done by performing half nelsons with both arms. In collegiate, high school, middle school/junior high school, and most...

How effective are high amplitude takedowns in a self defense situation?

Is it better to have trained BJJ or Judo when a self-defense situation arises? If you’re a Jiujiteiro, then this might not be what you want to hear… But it’s something that you absolutely need...

Jocko Willink & Tim Kennedy On How To Start In Self Defense

While a debate rages on whether it’s appropriate to say jiu-jitsu fight in any circumstance black belt in BJJ under Royler Gracie and Army Ranger Tim Kennedy thinks sports jiu-jitsu is gutless. To...

Video: Helio Gracie’s Complete Self Defense Jiu-Jitsu System

When it comes to self defense, your best option is often to train in combat sports where you will have sparring matches with a fully resisting training partner and you will be putting yourself in...

“Oh So You’re a Woman Doing BJJ? It Must Be For Self Defense”

Article sent to us on our contact form. Photo is not of author. Oh you’re a woman doing BJJ? You must be doing it for rape prevention*. I’m sorry, what? Where does this kind of bigotry come from?...

Selfie Stick Self Defense Being Taught by Martial Arts School

Learning how to fight with the popular picture-taking device could help tourists fend off potential pickpockets according to the a self defense school in Russia. Forget ninja stars or nunchakus as...

Chinese Female Wrestler Shows The Effectiveness Of Wrestling For Self Defense

When it comes to self defense, your best option is often to train in combat sports where you will have sparring matches with a fully resisting training partner and you will be putting yourself in...

Rampage Jackson Slams BJJ – “Kickboxing is The Best For Self Defense!”

Apparently Quinton Jackson is a bjj doubter. One recent instagram exchange revealed he considers kickboxing the best method for self defense to this date. View post on imgur.com Over the years,...

Top 5 Self Defense Jiu-Jitsu Techniques Against Punches or Grabs

  Here are 5 favorite and proven jiu-jitsu techniques that anyone can use in a street situation for self defense and protection. Brazilian Jiu jitsu is the perfect martial art for self defense...

Kidnapped Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters On Women’s Self Defense Training And How She Saved Herself

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is a South African model – she was crowned Miss Universe 2017. She told page six: “I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa,” says the New York...

Ryan Hall’s Analysis of What is the Best Martial Art for Self Defense

Ryan Hall is a UFC fighter who has submitted BJ Penn and defeated Gray Maynard. He is a Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Felipe Costa and one of the best featherweight grapplers in the world. A tough...

Royce Gracie: ‘People that Walk into a BJJ School Wanting Self Defense are Guided To A Sport with a Point System’

   Photo: Sonny Parlin  http://sonnyparlin.com Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is growing all around the world. Sport style Jiu-Jitsu is flourishing while the traditional Gracie Jiu-Jitsu for self defense...

How To Use Judo in a Self Defense Situation

When it comes to self defense, your grappling training will save your life when you least expect it, Many of us may believe that they are immune to a threat of a street altercation, but it is simply...

The Most Intense Black Belt Self Defense Test Done by “The Bruce Lee of Krav Maga”

    We often hear about contests and comparisons for the ultimate martial art – but what we don’t see every day is a self proclaimed Bruce Lee of Krav Maga do the test in a bjj...

Navy Seal Rates BJJ as 2nd Best Martial Art for Self Defense, after A Gun

  BJJ has proven itself time and time again in risky situations. It enables the practitioner to think rationally in high risk situation as well as provides plenty of other benefits. When it...

BJJ Black Belt Self Defense Instructor On Do’s & Don’ts in a Street Altercation

There are many videos on YouTube featuring BJJ practitioners in street altercations, and the majority of them seem to end in favor of BJJ. However, if you are inexperienced in the self defense aspect...