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Luke Harris Shows An Anaconda Choke Setup From Front Headlock

While it has experienced a recent uptick in its popularity, the front headlock is perhaps the most under-appreciated position in all of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Submission Grappling. Although the...

This Is How To Set Up A Head Cradle Sweep From Knee Shield

Many BJJ practitioners have made a career from forcing an under hook half guard and sweeping or taking the back. This is a common method of playing guard used by a lot of elite level grapplers such...

Andre Galvao Has Awesome North South Choke Details

The North-South Choke is incredibly powerful and effective. If your opponent applies it properly, then it’s very difficult to defend. Many people struggle with it though. Setting it up is usually...

Tom DeBlass Explains Jiu-Jitsu Knee Shield Basics

If you want to improve your Half Guard game, then learning how to play the Knee Shield game is going to be very important. But no, it isn’t as simple as “getting the knee between you and...

Here Is How To Do The Perfect Guard Retention In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Most of Jiu-Jitsu is won or lost in the guard passing and in the guard retention. Because, if you can pass someone’s guard, then you’re more than half way through to submitting them...

This Far Side Saddle From K Guard Entry Is A Masterpiece

Let’s say you’re trying to play K Guard against a kneeling opponent… But they’re stuffing your leg and driving forward. You can’t get your leg free – what are you...

Nicholas Meregali Reveals 2 Concepts For Playing Guard (In The Gi)

Playing guard isn’t really “simple”, is it? Especially in the gi, because there are a lot more grips (and, therefore, options) to take into consideration. Well, there is a way to...

Gordon Ryan Shows Valuable DLR Guard Knee Bump Ashi Entry

Let’s say you’re playing Open Guard in no-gi and you’re on your back. Your training partner steps deep inside between your legs, towards your thigh – which means that you can...

Bernardo Faria Explains How He Developed His Extraordinary Half Guard Game

Bernardo Faria is one of the best BJJ athletes in history, as well as one of the most-liked people in the worldwide Jiu-Jitsu community. And, one of the things he is best know for when it comes to...

Gordon Ryan Shows How To Take The Back Against Outside Ashi

If you’re rolling against a training partner who really likes going for Leg Locks, then you know how fun it can be… And, sometimes, how frustrating it can be as well. Which is why...

This Back Take From K Guard Works Really Well

There are a lot of ways to take the back in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. However, the most effective of ways are often, at the same time, the most unexpected of ways, too. For example – who of your...

How To Counter Scoop Passing Against K Guard?

So you’ve just started playing the K Guard game and it’s going well… But your training partners are starting to figure out how to go about countering it. And, even worse,...

Roger Gracie Shows Details For The Perfect Cross Choke From Mount

Roger Gracie is, for many, the greatest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete of all time. And how did he achieve that? By being a submission artist and by mastering the basics. By improving them to the point...

Hip Height & Staying Square: 2 Concepts That Will Turn You Into A Tougher Opponent

If you take into account the sheer amount of techniques in Jiu-Jitsu, as well as the details to every technique – and their variations in regards to the situations you find yourself in…...

This Knee Cut Defense Is So Simple & So Effective (You Have To Learn It)

The thing with Jiu-Jitsu is… You can have the best technique, but if your timing is off – you won’t make it. And, likewise, you can have the worst technique, but if your timing is...

Brian Glick Shows How To Do The Hip Heist (Advanced Details)

The Hip Heist is a very basic technique from Closed Guard. And you’ve probably stopped using it a long, long time ago. However, it’s now time to revisit it… With some advanced...

Wrists: The First Layer Of Defense (John Danaher Explains)

Here’s the thing. You could try and learn as many techniques as possible in Jiu-Jitsu – but you’ll never be able to learn them all. Not by a long shot. Especially when you take...

BJJ & Self-Defense Basics: Using The 2-On-1

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense? Well yes – because, at the end of the day, you should be able to defend yourself if you train a martial art… You should at least know the basics of...

Triangle Choke From Clamp Position: Super Important Wrist Detail

The Clamp is one of the most dominant positions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. “Invented” only recently, it gives you a lot of control over your opponent – and quite a bit of submission...

Edwin Najmi Shows How To Do The Tightest D’Arce Choke

You know the saying… “When it comes to chokes, there’s no tough guys.” In other words, there’s no amount of adrenaline or “persistence” that can make it...

John Danaher Shows The 3 Most Important BJJ Chokes (Strangles)

There’s so many techniques out there in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, right? Like, there’s so much that you can’t learn them all by a long shot… So you have to learn to prioritize....

Here’s How To Do The BJJ Loop Choke From Closed Guard

If there’s one submission that feels particularly satisfying when you hit it during sparring or/and competition itself, then it has to be the BJJ Loop Choke. Though, applying a Loop Choke...

How To Over Under Pass In No-Gi? Bernardo Faria Demonstrates

The Over Under Pass is one of the best guard passing techniques in Jiu-Jitsu. Though, fact is that it’s used mostly in the gi… So how are you supposed to use it in no-gi Jiu-Jitsu? Well,...

Xande Ribeiro Shows A Mount Escape Everyone Can Do

Stuck under Mount? That’s too bad… But this is no time to ponder your bad luck – you’ve got to prepare to escape immediately! You need to look for space to frame on the...