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Before training today, watch 5 variations on Jiu-Jitsu’s most efficient move
One day, a brave GRACIEMAG.com crewmember asked Grandmaster Helio Gracie what the most efficient move in Jiu-Jitsu is...
Comprido black belt trusts his half-guard in MMA. Do you?
With a number of IBJJF titles on his CV, Jiu-Jitsu black belt Jonatas Novaes has an MMA fight scheduled for the June ...
What To Do When Your Guard Attacks Fail
It’s my very favorite quote from the movie ‘The Avengers’ which I saw last night:
Captain America: We need a plan of ...
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...
Surprise from half-guard and finish with clock choke
Last week GRACIEMAG.com unearthed the perfect half-guard position for getting you out of that nasty situation of havi...
Kayron Gracie explains knee injury: “I was practicing half-guard”
Having won gold at the last Pan-American Jiu-Jitsu Championship, Kayron Gracie was earnestly training to return to th...
You a BJJ white belt? Get the nitty-gritty on the half-guard
In Jiu-Jitsu, when your opponent opens your guard guard he tends to end up landing in your half-guard, with a leg tra...
The 2 Jiu-Jitsu lessons from TUF Brazil you didn’t see on TV
Already into the final stretch of TUF Brazil, a reality show broadcast in Brazil on Globo channel on Sunday nights, V...
5 monsters of Jiu-Jitsu, 5 unfailing attacks and finishes
Friday’s normally the day that the site editor tries to be snazzy, come up with some smooth post that will perk Jiu-J...
Why keep your head free in Jiu-Jitsu? GRACIEMAG explains
Every Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, in training or competition, has heard shouts of, “Grab his head!” Grabbing the head whe...
Rômulo Barral’s half-guard attack
The IBJJF-promoted Spring Open shook things up at the Long Beach Convention Center last Saturday in California. At th...
7 questions for 2012 absolute champ of Brazil Nivaldo Oliveira
There’s a curious hex that looms over the absolute division of the Brazilian National Jiu-Jitsu Championship. Held an...