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Stabilizing and Attacking Larger Opponents from Sidemount

Many battles are lost by not sufficiently stabilizing sidemount, and/or choosing the wrong attacks to use from that o...

BJJ Training Strategies

Having the right assortment of techniques is pretty darn important in BJJ. But having the right training strategies i...

Defending Stupid Big Guy Attacks (and the Honor of Jiu-Jitsu)

It’s amazing what some big guys will do when they get frustrated. In fact, sometimes they’ll try stuff so stupid that...

What a Spider Guard Fail Teaches You About How to Train Any Technique!

Today’s tip comes was inspired from some training I did with a smaller grappler, let’s call him ‘Stu.’ Stu wanted to ...

2 Good Reasons to Bail Out of the Mount

What? Abandon the Mount? The position you’ve worked so hard to achieve?!?  Let me explain… BJJ is a position-based ar...

Three X Guard Mistakes (and my Best Drill for Getting a Killer X Guard)

The X Guard is one of my very favorite ‘go to’ positions. If I can get there in a match then I’m suddenly a very happ...

4 Mistakes That’ll KILL Your Half Guard…

Whether you want to or not, you ARE going to end up in the half guard! Some people simply use the half guard as a las...

Some Sample Lessons for the BJJ Beginner

As you probably know, I write a free newsletter called the Beginning BJJ eCourse. Just to give you a taste, here are ...

A Confusion of Open Guards

The open guard can be quite confusing. Basically any time your legs are not closed around the back of your opponent y...

Beginning Grappling Tips

This article was written by Nathan Leverton, who teaches submission grappling at his club in Leicester England. Enjoy...

Accelerate Your Jiu Jitsu Path To Black Belt

Achieving a blue belt level of Jiu Jitsu may take only a year or two. But what if you’re not content with intermediat...

Starting BJJ: What to Expect on your First Class

The purpose of this article is to answer any questions you might have about starting to train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,...
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