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Rigan Machado Promotes Charlie Hunnam (and Joel Kinnaman)
Rigan Machado’s stable of capable celebrity grapplers grew this week, with professor promoting Charlie Hunnam (Sons o...
The Unique Experience Of Training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu In China
Earlier this year, I traveled to Dalian, China to teach language at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. It w...
This Jiu-Jitsu Rap Is Good Enough To Become Your New Warm-Up Song
Combining jiu-jitsu and rap has become more and more popular recently, and some of the results have been surprisingly...
Murder Mat Funk By Adding These Three Ingredients To Your Bath
Bathing your shabby and inglorious self immediately after a sopping wet training session is universally considered go...
Learn How to Invert Without Breaking Your Neck
There’s a reason black belt Joe Rogan waxes poetic about yoga to basically every guest on his JRE podcast and that’s ...
Ulises Bella of Ozomatli Shares Experience As A Grammy Winning Musician And A Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt
While my usual tastes in music go in the direction of heavy metal, every now and again I like to chill out to some sm...
New Gi Company Vanguard to Offer a $500 Selvedge Denim Gi Made in Los Angeles
People love their denim. A nice pair of high end designer jeans mass produced overseas can cost upward of 200 dollar...
Jiu-Jitsu, corpo e mente: a fórmula antiestresse de Rickson Gracie
Qual seria a receita do sucesso no Jiu-Jitsu? O célebre cientista Albert Einstein certa vez formulou: “Se A é o suces...
Here’s How Jiu-Jitsu Can Help You Be A More Successful Businessperson
Jiu-jitsu has a lot of real-life applications, and no one knows this better than Tallis Gomes. Gomes is “just” a blue...
What Is The Most “Jiu-Jitsu-y” Animal?
What is the most “jiu-jitsu-y” animal? It may sound like a silly question, but a lot of people have actually spent ti...
The dangers of premature specialization in BJJ
Adapted from an article by Marcus Costa * There is a big difference between initiation in sports and specialization i...
Mission: open guard – Part 2
Continuing with the theme studied last week, Renzo Gracie and Leo Tunico teach fundamental techniques starting from t...