A Great Technique To Stop The Head Push To Finish The Pass! Perhaps, one of the greatest pressure-based passes in BJJ, the over under pass is a dynamic guard pass that can be used in a variety of ways. It firmly secures the...

The Mood Swing that comes with the End of Daylight Saving Time Most of us enjoyed the extra hour of sleep this weekend due to “falling back” with the end of Daylight Saving Time, but what about losing those daylight hours much earlier?...

Add this popular modern guard variation to your game  Making your guard game more dynamic is one of the best investments you can make in your BJJ game.  As a new student, those first few times opening your guard can be scary, frustrating...

A lot of BJJ practitioners will cross-train wrestling to help improve their takedowns. What good is your top game if you can't get the fight there, right? While you are working on those important single legs and double legs, you might actually be...

What is spatial awareness? Spatial awareness: Spatial awareness is the ability to be aware of oneself in space. It is an organised knowledge of objects in relation to oneself in that given space. Spatial awareness also involves understanding the relationship of these objects...

The Often Overlooked Idea of Training Structure. Lately, the words training structure have been infinitely exciting to me. In the same way a leg lockers eyes light up when he hears wedges or Ashi Garmi. In the same fashion as it was for...

This weekend saw the first North American trials for the 2019 Abu Dhabi Combat Championships, with the champion at each of the five weight classes punching his ticket to the toughest submission grappling tournament on the planet. So, who is in for ADCC's so...

Jiu Jitsu's complicated relationship with marijuana. High Rollerz tournament has been making waves within the Jiu Jitsu community. Although the first event was held in June and the second was held in September, the tournaments are still garnering a significant amount of attention....

Leg locks have a reputation across jiu-jitsu as something of a dark art, something that is meant for only those who are willing to play a little riskier than everyone else. The IBJJF and most gym cultures back this up by making any...

This Takedown Should be Part of Every Grappler's Game Wrestling is a component of Jiu Jitsu that not all grapplers attempt to continuously improve in. As the guard game develops, Jiu Jitsu practitioners will often ignore the takedowns as they are more certain...

Missing those Zzzz's can impact performance   Sleep is an often-ignored element of physical and mental health among people of all ages. Ironically, people who sleep a limited amount are braggadocious about the few hours of rest they get. Being a student, I...

The cauliflower ear. I remember attending my first practices with the middle school wrestling team and seeing my coach with a bulging deformed ear. I honestly had no idea what it was at the time, and I was afraid to ask him. I...

Can you get out of this BJJ predicament?                                                       If there was one position you feel most...

The fundamental submission from this leg lock OG   As leg locks have gained in popularity in the sport of Jiu Jitsu, it has become vital that all grapplers of every skill level learn them if they wish to be successful submission artists....

Build your leg attack dexterity with these simple drills. In the sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, there are two main ways of practicing techniques and positions. The most common of these methods is basic technique repetition and this necessary to learn how to...