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A Girl’s Guide to Grappling What You Need to Know Before You Start Rolling

Although the sport and art of grappling is currently mostly a male activity, many female readers have commented on ho...

Why Should Women Grapple?

Most Brazilian jiu-jitsu and submission grappling students are male, and in most grappling schools females are the ex...

A Glossary of Guards Part 3: The Half Guard

By Stephan Kesting and Elliott Bayev Principal Photography by Keith Haist Originally Published in Ultimate Grappling ...

A Glossary of Guards Part 2: The Open Guard

By Stephan Kesting and Elliott Bayev Principal Photography by Keith Haist Originally Published in Ultimate Grappling ...

A Glossary of Guards Part 1: The Closed Guard

By Stephan Kesting and Elliott Bayev Principal Photography by Keith Haist Originally Published in Ultimate Grappling ...

The Way to Train

The Way to Train – Jiu-jitsu Idealism An article by Tal Williams of Elite Martial Arts.  I was put to task to write s...

BJJ Video Tips for Beginners

In the spring of 2009 I asked my readers to send in video tips to help BJJ beginners. The idea was to augment and com...

The 3 Most Common First-Time Competition Errors

I was recently asked “what are the most common mistakes that first-time competitors make?” BJJ tournaments in general...

Best Type of BJJ Guard for Beginners

Vitor ‘Shaolin’ Ribeiro is a four time World BJJ Champion.  In MMA he held the welterweight title in Japanese Shooto....

Confessions of a Reformed ‘Unco’

I got some good feedback on the last post (Advice for a Frustrated, Clumsy and Uncoordinated Grappler) and want to sh...

Advice for A Frustrated, Clumsy & Uncoordinated Grappler

——————-  A Question ——————- Hi Stephan I’ve recently started learning BJJ with some friends at their garage.  I am by...

Teaching BJJ to Kids

Game Theory; How I Learned to Teach BJJ to Kids, A Guest article by John Connors and Jon Grayzel
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