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Convince your friends to do Jiu-Jitsu
Let’s say you’re addicted to Jiu-Jitsu, and now you want to convince your partners to at least try out an invigoratin...
From the treasure chest: Rilion’s angle on the guard
"The guard is the salvation of the weak," said Rilion Gracie in a GRACIEMAG interview in February 2009. Well today, a...
From the treasure chest: Jiu-Jitsu and the guard
Well before the winning submissions of Fabricio Werdum (over all-powerful Fedor) and Anderson Silva (over Sonnen), yo...
Sensitivity Training for Grappling
Physical attributes are really important for Brazilian jiu-jitsu and submission grappling (a point further discussed ...
Q & A: Should I tape my matches?
==> A QUESTION <==
“Do you think there’s much benefit to video taping myself in sparring sessions and then watc...
How To Attract Women… To Your Grappling School
Krista Scott-Dixon is many things, including being friend of mine, a student of BJJ and the brains behind a great fit...
Ginástica Natural workshop August 14
Founder of Ginástica Natural Alvaro Romano and son Raphael Romano – both Jiu-Jitsu black belts and physical condition...
Flow Sparring
Last week I had a short but fun training session with my friend Ritchie doing what we call ‘flow sparring.’
The rule...
What’s Luanna’s training like?
Current World, Pan-American, Brazilian and Abu Dhabi champion Luanna Alzuguir has been reaping awe inspiring results ...
No, no, no. Sharpen your blade first!
Friendly rivalries on the mat often turbocharge your grappling progress.
Recently I was corresponding with a BJJ play...
A Drill to Rescue the Armbar from Guard
At a seminar I attended, martial arts legend Dan Inosanto once distinguished between
the techniques used in a martia...
Never Satisfied!
Today, at the gym, a young grappler asked me a question he’d obviously been wondering about for a long time.”How lo...