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An Alternative To Pulling Guard When Grappling On Your Knees
Many grapplers start their sparring sessions on their knees. From this starting position usually one of two things ha...
How To Use Instructional BJJ Media
by guest author Nicolai Geeza Holt
Stephan’s note: today’s guest author shares his thoughts about a topic near and de...
Short Legged Guard Work
A while ago I gave some suggestions about dealing with the open guard of long-legged and flexible opponents. In the i...
Golf and BJJ
Originally uploaded by lauratitian
I don’t like golf. I’ll probably receive a large batch of irate emails because of...
Dealing with Daddy Long Legs
A reader writes:
Q: Do you have any advice for handling opponents who are tall, long-legged and very flexible?
A: Yes...
16 Tips For Your Closed Guard
Here are 16 fantastic tips from guest contributor Jason Scully. Jason is a teacher and competitor with 12 years of gr...
Online Grappling Drill Videos
I think that grappling drills can serve an important function. Not everybody agrees with me about this: some people t...
Hard Come, Easy Go
In a previous tip I talked about how one often makes the fastest progress by working on one’s weakest area. An unfort...
What is Caging the Hips
Everybody says that that hip movement is the most important thing in BJJ…
“Boca” Oliveira, a de la Riva black belt, r...
The Berserker
There’s one at almost every club. The guy who can’t lose. The guy who always goes 100%. The guy who applies every sub...
Butterfly Guard Crash Course
As I was heading home from a workout recently, someone mentioned that their butterfly guard just wasn’t working for t...
How to Train Dangerous Submissions
In the previous article we discussed some of the most dangerous submissions in grappling, and ended with the question...