Right now the BJJ Fanatics team are hot off the back of an incredible performance at ADCC and we have a great video here of Bernardo Faria, Craig Jones, and John Danaher breaking down the submissions game.   For a start we have...

We all know if someone is good with Lasso guard it can be really challenging to pass their guard. Even at the highest levels of competition Lasso guard can shut down someone’s movement for really long stretches of time.  In this video Bernardo...

When you think of half guard, who do you think of? There are a lot of practitioners out there that use the half guard as their primary guard.  Do you think of Tom DeBlass? Perhaps Lucas Leite? Or maybe you think of Bernardo...

Your first day at a BJJ class can be a little nerve wracking. It’s understandable. Let’s face it. You’re about to walk into a room where everyone is learning how to fight, taking each other down, wrestling around on the ground, and attempting...

One of the best attributes of half guard that makes it so popular is it’s versatility. Not only are there a ton of different varieties of half guard, but each type can be used in many different ways. Not only is there versatility...

For a few years, deep half guard was one of the most popular positions in Jiu Jitsu. In its time, it was kind of like how leg locks are now with everyone researching them and trying to learn them as quickly as possible. ...

  One of the most useful group of submissions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu are the head and arm strangles. This is a family of related submissions that have a lot of diversity both in where to set them up from and how to...

If you train Jiu Jitsu, you will have gotten to use half guard and its many variations many times. The half guard is widely popular among many grapplers and some people even use it as their primary guard. Grapplers like Tom Deblass, who...

Using a two on one grip while playing guard can be extremely useful and tough to deal with when you’re on the other end. Especially in no gi, when the grips are a bit scarcer and things get a little slippery. The two...

The half guard has become the focus of many high level Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitors. Guys like Tom DeBlass and Bernardio Faria use the half guard as a foundation to their competitive success. What makes the half guard so attractive is its relative...

  Recently we talked about guard strategies for people who pass off of their knees. More often than not we see people choose to pass from their feet. This could be due to multiple factors. Passing from the feet offers ample amounts of...

First off let’s show some respect and gratitude to both athletes and the performance both put on. That said, this match was textbook Bernardo Faria. The commentators point this out several times in the video. Faria put on an over under passing clinic....