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John Danaher To Release Instructional Series with BJJ Fanatics
John Danaher is a man of many talents, certainly the biggest coaching world class grappling (Garry Tonon, Gordon Ryan, Eddie Cummings, Travis Stevens etc..) and mma talent (Georges St-Pierre, Chris...
View ArticleJohn Danaher On How He Plans To Change The Game Of Video Instructionals
Yesterday, John Danaher made a surprising announcement: He has started filming a new instructional series with the leading website BJJ Fanatics, who feature quality instructionals from Tom DeBlass,...
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4 Ways to Modify Your Training for Grappling Competition
Guest post by James Duscio, a BJJ black belt under Walter Cascao Vital. He runs Cascao Evolution BJJ out of Las Vegas nv. Everybody starts their BJJ journey for different reasons, and competing is...
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Instructor Develops Unique & Powerful Kimura Sweep
The Kimura would be known as the Reverse Ude Garami, or the Double Wrist Lock in Catch Wrestling circles. There are a lot of different names and sources to what we now know as the Kimura Lock. The most...
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The Difference Between Full Time BJJ Athletes & Recreational Practitioners
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is quickly becoming more and more professional. Not only is the sport starting to develop various platforms for athletes to make money and be considered “professional grapplers,”...
View ArticleGeo Martinez Responds To AJ Agazarm With Maturity and Poise
While AJ Agazarm has been all about the WWE approach to his jiu jitsu career a subtle approach does sometimes work. While Denny Prokopos threw child like tantrums to Agazarm’s gauntlet Geo Martinez...
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The Reverse Half Guard Version 2.0 Will Confuse, Trap & sweep Your Opponent
The half guard position has been going through a renaissance lately primarily through the popularity and prevalence of half guard being used by world class practitioners like Bernardo Faria and Tom...
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Three of the Best Back Takes from Guard
When becoming a guard player, it is crucial to have a wide arsenal of attacks from different guards. One of the most important elements to becoming a tricky guard player is learning back takes from...
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The Dark Side: Building Yourself A Lethal Leg Lock Game That Will Make You...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years and paid zero attention to BJJ competitions and trends, you have no doubt watched the incredible rise in attention that the lower half of...
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A Kosen Judo Class at Kyoto University Looks Exactly Like Modern BJJ
Kosen Judo is not a lost art, because people still practice it. 7 national universities in Japan (i.e. Kyoto, Tokyo, Nagoya, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Osaka, and Tohoku universities) have Judo clubs that adopt...
View Article10th Planet Coach & Former UFC Fighter Arrested For Sexually Abusing...
Gerald Strebendt (39), instructor of 10th planet Eugene and former UFC fighter has been arrested today (Wednesday) for allegedly sexually abusing an underaged female student. This is not the first time...
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How Much Of Your Jiu-Jitsu Is Influenced By Your Instructor?
Ever wonder what influence your instructor will have in the long term over your Jiu Jitsu? If you will become technically similar to him, perhaps have the same or better success? In this article we...
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Craig Jones Shows how he took Lo’s back & Submited Him at the ADCC
Craig Jones is the biggest name in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu right now. Whether or not he is the best is irrelevant, Craig is the newest name on the scene and has taken the BJJ community by storm. Many...
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5 Tips To Improve Your Half Guard by Bernardo Faria & Tom Deblass
Guest post by 5x BJJ World Champion Bernardo Faria, who is known for his half guard and smashing passing style. He achieved a phenomenal double gold medals in the BJJ Mundials in 2015. Be sure to check...
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How To Omoplata Everyone From Every Position
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 in...
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Wrist Locks, Secret to Attacking the Giants
When people think of “Dirty tricks” in jiu jitsu, they are often referring to moves that are much easier than the effect they accomplish would imply. Moves that are simply beyond the pale of what we...
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Improve Your Cardio For BJJ Without Extra Cardio
Photo: Mike Kalika One of the most elusive things that everyone who steps on the BJJ mats is looking for, even beyond their next stripe or belt promotion, is good cardio. Think back to the first time...
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Why Does It Take Around 10 Years To Get A Black Belt In BJJ?
Why does it take so many years (for the average practitioner) to get a black belt? This is quite complicated but let’s consider a few factors. The average time it takes someone to reach black belt...
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How Grapplers Should Approach Strength and Conditioning
Unlike the striking arts such as boxing, kick boxing or Muay Thai where practitioners exert a direct force over their opponents to score a knockout, the grappling arts are more about manipulating your...
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How To Do The Savage Loop Choke From Side Control by Alexandre Vieira
Lapel chokes are some of the cleanest, most efficient submissions you can secure when training jiu jitsu in the gi. The loop choke is one of the deadly subsets of those lapel chokes. The thing that...
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