choke RSS
How’s your choke arsenal coming along?
Direct from the academy of our GMA in Texas João Crus, here’s a neck hold stemming from side control. Besides squeezi...
Use your Jiu-Jitsu sagacity to escape back mount and counter with style
Carnival in Brazil has drawn to a close. While many spent the days reveling in merriment, others took the off time to...
Best brown belt at Houston Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship with escape from bottom lesson
Team Gracie Elite brown belt Gianni Grippo put in a stellar showing at the IBJJF Houston Open this past weekend. The ...
Use your weight for the finish in side-control, with Ary Farias
A many-time Brazilian national champion and runner-up at this year’s Jiu-Jitsu World Championship, having closed out ...
Learn to exit the berimbolo and finish from back mount, with Jiu-Jitsu ace Paulo Miyao
In Jiu-Jitsu, winning’s great. But what really makes the effort worthwhile is putting on a great show, giving it your...
3 key Jiu-Jitsu tips for avoiding subs from back mount
Another European Jiu-Jitsu Championship comes to a close, and yet again the most oft-used finishes were chokes from b...
Photos from day one at highly competitive Europeans 2012
Take a look at the first photos showing the mood and scenery at day one of the European Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2012...
How about using a Carlson Gracie-forged choke?
Gutenberg Melo, one of the 109 black belts produced by late Grandmaster Carlson Gracie, was in the city of Fortaleza,...
8 lessons from the best Jiu-Jitsu fighter at UFC 141
If you’re an MMA fan, you surely watched the frolic the young featherweight Jimy “The Kid” Hettes (Almeida BJJ) had ...
Double attack à la Zé Radiola
Gracie Barra Pernambuco leader José Olímpio da Rocha, better known as “Zé Radiola”, has produced grappling-arts beast...
Adjust your back attack
The new GracieBarra.com website is going off, with loads of information and positional videos. Below, Professor Rodri...
Pass the De La Riva guard and take the neck with Barral
Here, Rômulo Barral (Gracie Barra) shows how to pass the De La Riva guard and attack with a choke from the knee on be...