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Should We Get Rid Of Drilling And Just Roll? Coach Tom Weighs In.
Most Brazilian jiu-jitsu gyms follow the same routine: warm-up, drill, then roll. According to Coach Tom from the Gra...
Specialization In Jiu-Jitsu: Good or Bad?
We hear it all the time when describing top flight competitors who are starting to make their mark on competition jiu...
Tips To Improve Your Scrambling
Most of the time we can freeze the video of a BJJ match and clearly identify which ground position the two combatants...
You Need Open Mat Time
Many BJJ schools have some time slots on the schedule each week allocated for open mat. This is an overlooked but imp...
Long Overdue Belt Promotions
Often when one of your BJJ training partners posts a photo of a new belt promotion on social media, there are multipl...
Stephan Kesting On How To Stay In ‘BJJ Shape’ When You’re On The Road
Grapplearts founder Stephan Kesting is probably on the road quite a bit, so there’s a good chance he knows how hard i...
3 Things To Focus On Before A Tournament
For students preparing to enter their first BJJ tournament, there is a lot of different and sometimes contradictory m...
What Is The Ideal Weight For Jiu-Jitsu?
What is the ideal weight for jiu-jitsu? This is probably going to sound rather obvious, but there isn’t one. It all d...
How To Use Positional Training
Recently, I transcribed some parts of a great interview with Rickson Gracie where he discusses the value of what he r...
Dear White Belt, Being A Blue Belt Isn’t So Bad
Dear white belts, If you’ve been doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu for a while, your instructor or other upper belts have pro...
Blue Beltitis
I’ve noticed a trend among numerous blue belts. Some call it, “blue beltitis”. It goes a little like this: the blue b...
Stuff That Doesn’t Matter In BJJ
When you become addicted to BJJ, you tend to throw yourself with great enthusiasm into the BJJ world. You eat, think,...