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The Evolution of the ‘Logsplitter’ From Fluke to Trusted BJJ Technique…
Today I want to tell you a story about how I stumbled across a technique by fluke at a tournament, and how it became ...
Sport Specific Training for MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)
An article by Ryan Pratt
(www.royharris.com)
The whole MMA game has evolved quite a bit from the early days. It is no...
Tips for training when training partners are hard to find
Maybe you travel a lot. Maybe you live in a really small town. Maybe the club you used to train at closed down. Maybe...
Sensory Learning Styles
Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic Learning Styles in Grappling
by Charles Smith, whitebelt.org
Stephan’s note: this ar...
The X Guard Position
The ‘X guard’ is a position that I’ve been using a lot recently. Depending on your point of view, it’s either a form ...
Butterfly Guard / X Guard Q & A
The questions in this article arose, in part, from a discussion of my Butterfly Guard and X Guard video, which is par...
Action vs. Reaction in Grappling (or why Yogi Berra was right)
An article by Jeff ‘Wombat’ Meszaros
When Yogi Berra said, “half of this game is ninety percent mental”, he was talki...
Vitor ‘Shaolin’ Ribeiro on Top of the BJJ World An interview with a grappling legend
by Stephan Kesting
Vitor ‘Shaolin’ Riberio is ranked the number one fighter in the world under 155 lbs, and has multi...
Beginning Grappling Tips
This article was written by Nathan Leverton, who teaches submission grappling at his club in Leicester England.
Enjoy...
Alliance aces’ last training session for 2012 Pan
The 2012 Pan-American Jiu-Jitsu Championship is already going full steam in Irvine, California. In the colored-belt g...
5 tips for picking and purchasing your first Jiu-Jitsu gi
Time to buy your first gi is an occasion marked with doubts not just for Jiu-Jitsu practitioners, but for athletes fr...
Submission Grappling vs. Classical Ju-jutsu; when cultures and concepts collide
Introduction
There are many similarities between the sport of Submission Grappling and the classical Japanese Ju-juts...