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BTT Boston Celebrates 2012 with Belt Ceremony
GMA team Brazilian Top Team Boston celebrated the end of 2012 with a belt promotion ceremony. Head Coach Prof. Daniel...
Valente Brothers Receive Royce Gracie and Key to City in Miami
This December, Gracie Miami academy had its routine altered by two big-name visitors. A purple belt in Jiu-Jitsu, May...
End-of-the-Year Jiu-Jitsu party at Zé Beleza’s Academy
Last December 2, a Sunday, big-time end-of-the-year festivities for Jiu-Jitsu practitioners went down at PUC universi...
Lost Back Control? Finish with the Clock or Arm-Triangle
Having back control is about as strong a position as a Jiu-Jitsu fighter can have, as Roberto Drysdale underscores in...
Lucas Lepri Promoted to 2nd Degree by Master Jacare
The Alliance Headquarters has been home of many champions, past and present. Many of Alliance’s greatest team members...
Junior Cigano Promoted to Black Belt in Jiu-Jitsu
by Carlos Arthur Jr Junior Cigano added another distinction to his accomplished career in the martial arts. The curre...
Mackenzie: “I Want to Repeat the Success I Had at Other Belts at Black Belt”
Mackenzie Dern isn’t just any fighter. Now, she’s a Jiu-Jitsu black belt. And she was reminded of just how special sh...
Learn 3 Ways of Escaping Side-Control in Jiu-Jitsu
A Jiu-Jitsu professor and a GMA or ours, Ricardo Cavalcanti teaches at Carlson Gracie Las Vegas. He understands that,...
Erick Silva: ‘The Biggest Fight of the Night is Always Mine’
Erick Silva hadn’t tasted defeat since 2006, until he ran into John Fitch in a barnburner of a fight at UFC Rio last ...
Manager: ‘We’d Like Roger Gracie to Train in L.A. with Lyoto and Glover’
Roger Gracie always mentions Rodrigo Minotauro as being an MMA role model of his. By the same token, Minotauro always...
Take the Back and Finish with New Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Mackenzie
Mackenzie Dern, who is signed up for the Long Beach Fall Open 2012, was promoted to black belt this Saturday, Decembe...
Nogueira and Leite Shut out South America Absolute
The current superheavyweight world championship and absolute world runner-up, Léo Nogueira’s trip to Florianópolis, B...