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Demi Lovato Close To A Blue Belt – Hitting Takedowns on Her Instructor!

    Pop star Demi Lovato keeps hitting landmarks on her journey. For all of you guard pullers out there take a look at this footage and reconsider, if Hollywood pop star Demi Lovato can...

Knee barred Blue Belt Gets DQed: Corruption or Good Call?

    The controversy started on day one of IBJJF Worlds. At the center of the first drama were an Andre Galvao blue belt student and an attempted kneebar who earned the DQ. One spectators...

This Is What Eddie Bravo Wants You To Know About 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu

Guest post by Evolve Vacation. The Evolve Vacation Program offers travelers the rare opportunity of a lifetime to combine a tropical vacation under the sun with authentic training under World...

Jiu-Jitsu Heaven: Valente Bros Amazing New Academy in Miami

Jiu-Jitsu heaven… Imagine nice mats, great facilities, a nice location, great sparring partners. The Valente Brothers have taken it one step further and have just moved into an amazing, state of...

5 Reasons Why Shinya Aoki vs Garry Tonon Is A Mouthwatering, Adrenaline-Pumping, MUST-SEE Grappling Super Fight!

  It goes without saying that a grappling match between two of the most exciting submission artists in MMA and BJJ is something special. Actually, it’s much more than that for BJJ and MMA fans...

Cavaliers’ Deron Williams Owns MMA Gym, Wants to Compete in BJJ

    Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is very appealing to a number of pro athletes. Some consider it a great way to keep in shape in the off season while others think it improves their safety and the...

Start Winning BJJ Matches With Superior Takedowns

Photo by Flashsport: Leandro defeated Erberth Santos thanks in a big part to superior takedowns. Recently, Leandro Lo defeated Gordon Ryan at the ADCC West Coast Trials. How did Leandro Lo defeat...

Great Tactical Analysis Of What to Expect From Demian Maia vs Masvidal

    Jack Slack is a pen name of a unknown freelancer famous for his great coverage of combat sports. In the latest feature he’s turned attention to the event every jiu-jiteiro can’t...

Henry Akins On Escaping Bad Positions, & Using Your Opponent’s Grips Against Them

Henry Akins is the third American to receive a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belt from legendary fighter Rickson Gracie. Akins trained under Rickson Gracie for 15 years. Akins became the head...

How I Got My Black Belt From Rickson & Kron Gracie in Less Than 8 years

Photo: Rickson Gracie promoting Brandon Hetzler to black belt after he submitted all of his opponents at the 2010 Jiujitsu Pan Ams. The road to a black belt is usually a long and hard one full of ups...

Disabled Army Vet Ronald Mann: “With Jiu-Jitsu, I’m a world champion.”

    For Ronald Mann life was quite traumatic. He is an army veteran who lost a part of his left leg in a motorcycle accident in 1995. He told fox 5 :“Thirty days after the accident, I had...

2017 World Pro Day 4: Thrilling Black Belt Matches w/ Finals

The black belts once again delivered a great day of matches this Friday at the 2017 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship. In every weight class, competitors fought hard to reach the...

Michelle Nicolini Excited To Put On a Show at ONE: Kings Of Destiny

    Perhaps one of the most decorated brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts is hoping to make the same kind of impact on MMA. She successfully debuted back in 2011 but she struggled with fight...

2017 World Pro Day 3 Recap: Black Belts

The highlights of Day 3 at the 2017 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship were the country qualifiers for the adult and master 1 brown and black belt divisions. Big names competed for...

How To Become a Master in YouTube-Jitsu

Guest post by Masafumi Matsumoto, a BJJ brown belt from Japan who has been travelling the world, training, competing and working as a translator. ‘Masa’ is known for having a very good guard,...

Exclusive: BJJ Scout’s Identity Revealed Plus Bonus Footage Revealed

    The question “Who is BJJ Scout?” has been plaguing the community for ages. And for the first time ever the resolve is close. Many sources have come out lately claiming they...

Vinicius Draculino on Dealing with an Attacker Grabbing Your Balls

A guy calling himself “Master” made the statements to BJJ legend Vinicius Draculino: “I mean, I thought that Gracie Jiu-Jitsu was first of all supposed to be about self defence in a...

Tarsis Humphreys on Defeating Leandro Lo & Starting His New Affiliation

Tarsis Humphreys is back!  Just coming off of a great performances at Five Grappling Super League where he beat Leandro Lo, he was a guest on the best BJJ podcast Grappling central podcast where he...

Training Report: Yamasaki BJJ Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden

Hi everyone! My name is Colin Leigh and I am a Canadian living abroad in Riga, Latvia. I am a four striped white belt under Vladislavs Čerņavskis, training at LEWC- Giudici BJJ in Riga. I have been...

Judo’s ‘Sasae Tsuri-Komi Ashi’ Modification For MMA & No Gi Grappling

Mark Lajhner, founder and chief instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy  and of mmacoach.net, shows how he modified a judo throw called “Sasae Tsuri-Komi Ashi” for MMA and Grappling and made it more...

Five Grappling Super League: Lucas Barbosa Champion, Humphreys Upsets Leandro Lo

Lucas Barbosa beats Louzado, Humphreys and Schrok to claim light heavyweight belt, other results The Five Grappling light heavyweight belt finally has a owner. Atos JJ’s Lucas Barbosa powered...

UFC’s Cole Miller To Participate in EBI’s Upcoming Combat Jiu-Jitsu 155lbs Tournament

  Last weekend’s 11th edition of the Eddie Bravo Invitational had more than one thing going for it. But certainly one of the most intriguing aspects of the event was the 4 men Combat Jiu Jitsu...

Unrolling the Imanari Roll with Marvin Castelle (With Video Tutorial)

Check out this annotated breakdown with Marvin Castelle, recent submission of the night recipient at FTW Pro 24. As always, read on if you’re interested in the psychology behind the move and...

What We Learned From Combat Jiu-Jitsu

    Yesterday’s 11th edition of the Eddie Bravo Invitational had more than one thing going for it. But certainly one of the most intriguing aspects of the event was the 4 men Combat...