Waiting in Atlanta to board a plane to Los Angeles, I can’t help but be incredibly excited about what IM about to witness. I’m heading to Anaheim, California to take in my very first ADCC in person. As a long time, practitioner...

Very Curious.... With ADCC coming up this week the jiu jitsu community is on the edge of their seats waiting in anticipation. With so many names and so many amazing grapplers in one tournament we finally find out this weekend find out who...

Why should you start training Jiu Jitsu?  Should you even start? Do you have to compete? Should you compete?   There can be a lot of questions when you first start considering training Jiu Jitsu.  It can be hard to sift through everything and...

When it comes to Jiu Jitsu whether from a sport perspective or a self defense perspective one thing remains the same.  Before you can start working submissions or controlling the opponent from mount, or anything else for that matter, you must first get...

Get the submission quick and easy with “Dean Lister’s Calf Slicer From Half Mount” Having the ability to pass the guard smoothly and quickly is something that we are always working on and continuing to develop.  There will be times along the way...

The more you train, the better you get.  Seems obvious right? It should. However, what I think people tend to forget is that other people, your teammates and your competition are also training, and therefore are also getting better.  As you start to...

We’re really excited at BJJ Fanatics to continue bringing you game changing material from the best practitioners in the world, and today is no different.  We’ve just finished filming an instructional with Xande Ribeiro on the closed guard, following on from his hugely...

  The mount is considered one of the best positions in jiujitsu for offense. The top person has so many options for dismantling their opponent: chokes, armbars, shoulder locks, back takes, etc. But to do any of these, they need to be able...

  50/50 is an odd position that has emerged in the evolution of the leglocking game. The two on one leg control makes it incredibility frustrating to try and pass and escape from, and doing so can leave the feet unprotected.   With passing...

BJJ Fanatics has had the great honor of working with several of the highest-level athletes in BJJ. This list is stacked top to bottom with everyone from legends of the art, to the young guns of today that are evolving the sport at...

  The ADCC World Championships are coming up this weekend, so let's take a look at some of our BJJ Fanatics family members who have been invited to compete. Next up is Renato Canuto, who is included in the -77 kg division. For Canuto,...

As we scan the list of ADCC athletes for our BJJ Fanatics family members, one of the most accomplished BJJ players we come across is Lucas Lepri. Lepri hails from Minas Gerais in Brazil where his childhood included athletics of all kinds: Skating,...

  Ahead of this weekend's ADCC World Championships, we're taking a look at some of our BJJ Fanatics family members who have been invited to compete. One of the few Europeans to appear on the roster is Adam Wardzinski. Wardzinski began his martial...

Which is a better feeling, getting a submission, or escaping a submission your opponent almost had on you?  I think most everyone would agree that getting the submission is the better of the two, however, there is no arguing that having a great...

But it could be! Do you remember the last time you tried to land a submission, specifically a triangle submission but you could not for the life of you seem to get it?  The opponent just seemed to have all the right positioning...