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How To Do the Cartwheel Guard Pass
The cartwheel guard pass is one of the most spectacular guard passes out there. But it’s not as difficult to do as y...
Kangaroo MMA with Rear Naked Choke!!
This might just be the coolest thing I have ever seen. A Kangaroo MMA match complete with kicks, clinching, takedowns...
The 3 Fanciest Leglocks That Actually Work
Some leglocks are simple, straight-ahead, super-effective submissions that should be in every grappler’s arsenal.
Oth...
Unorthodox Positions and Attacks
There are six major positions in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts and Submission Grappling. If you learn thes...
An Advanced Submission used at the Highest Level
I thought that this was just too cool not to share…
A few years ago my friend Matt Kirtley sent me a breakdown of the...
Get Off the Ground!!!
Once you get good at Brazilian jiu-jitsu the ground will be your happy place. Rolling around and hunting for submiss...
Box a fighter, fight a boxer
“Box a fighter, and fight a boxer.”
This old saying isn’t only limited to boxing – you can use the very same princip...
A Lifetime of Learning
At my recent seminar on Unorthodox Positions I thought that I would be doing all the teaching, and that the students ...
Unorthodox Positions DVD Update
Recently I taught a seminar on Unorthodox BJJ Positions. The success of this seminar inspired me to write a series of...
The Reverse Mount; Another Unorthodox BJJ Position
The first time I saw the Reverse Mount I was at an Erik Paulson seminar. My reaction was something like “yeah, right…...
Offside Kesa Gatame has an Judo Name
OK, it’s official. The collective intelligence of the Grapplearts readership is awesome.
Thousands of people people r...
‘Offside’ Kesa Gatame: Another Unorthodox BJJ Position
Today I want to look at another unorthodox position. It’s so unique that – to the best of my knowledge – there aren’t...