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Podcast Rant: Why You Have to do Jiu-Jitsu, and How to Get Good at It Fast

Here’s a quick 10 minute audio rant I released on my Strenuous Life Podcast recently. I start out by talking about wh...

Six Bad BJJ Habits

After the first year or two of BJJ most guys tend to find and develop their own games. Naturally, we gravitate toward...

The Main Positions of Modern Leglocking

One of the biggest changes in the modern approach to leg locking is the emphasis on controlling the underlying legloc...

On Starting Sparring from the Knees…

A reader writes: Hi Stephan, I’ve been doing BJJ for about 6 months and am wondering if you have any advice about wha...

Five Tricks to Tighten Up Your Sidemount

There’s nothing worse than weathering the storm in someone’s guard, passing their guard by fighting your way past the...

How to Defend Strikes on the Ground

You’re walking down the street, someone bumps you, words are exchanged, you get pushed to the ground, and now some bi...

Jiu-Jitsu: Finding Comfort in Uncomfortable Positions

We all have a fear of the unknown, but the unknown is exactly why we fear it. If we have never experienced the situat...

How to Stabilise Mount Against a Bigger, Stronger Opponent

Many smaller grapplers avoid the mount position because they feel it’s too easy for a larger opponent to simply throw...

How to Defeat a Smaller Opponent

Smaller opponents can become big nuisances, especially if they have legitimate skills. You would think that the very ...

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 ...

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...

Positions, pointers, matches… see what the Jiu-Jitsu world champions do

The 2012 World Championship is going off in Long Beach, California. Last year, the aces below made it atop the podium...
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