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Tips for Recovering from a BJJ Injury and Getting Back to Training
Unfortunately injuries are just part of the game. Now hopefully they’ll be minor injuries and you’ll recover from the...
How to Get Kicked Out of Your BJJ Club
by Jeff Meszaros
So, you’ve been training at the same jiu-jitsu club for a while now and you’ve decided it’s not for...
Who Should You Mostly Be Sparring With To Improve The Fastest?
Who should you spend most of your time on the mats training with and sparring against?
One of my martial arts mentors...
What Techniques Do You Need to Know for Your Blue Belt
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a relatively disorganised and highly variable sport. This is most evident when you start look...
Podcast EP25: BJJ Beginner Tips Interview and Podcast
In this Grapplearts interview I talk to BJJ Black Belt Ritchie Yip, focusing on tips that BJJ beginners need to know....
The Two Biggest Benefits of Training Martial Arts
Funny story…
I was passing through the downtown core of a major North American city a few years ago. I had 40 minutes...
How to Incorporate a New Technique into Your Arsenal
Incorporating a new move into your sparring and competition repertoire can be tricky. Too many people go and and try...
How to Defeat a Smaller Opponent
Smaller opponents can become big nuisances, especially if they have legitimate skills.
You would think that the very ...
How the Theory of Multiple Intelligence Can Make You a Better BJJ Instructor
by Brendan Hufford
When you’re teaching, regardless of whether it’s BJJ or calculus, there’s no such thing as a ‘one ...
This impressed the hell out of me!
In my early days of martial arts training I ran into quite a few teachers who were so full of themselves that student...
Marcelo Garcia Chokes Me Out Repeatedly
Marcelo Garcia is maybe the very best person in the world at attacking the turtle position.
But before I tell you how...
Why Men Should Grapple Women (and Smaller Men)
Here’s a very interesting email from a female reader that I thought I’d pass along…
Hi Stephan,
I just read through t...