Watch Berndaro Faria Teach Chris Yonkers’ Butterfly Guard Pass To master a technique you must break it down into smaller steps, which will let you repeat the process many times during drilling. This is the key to success when learning any new move...

Over Under Pass Technique Variation If you have done any grappling based sports for even a short length of time you will know that each and every one of us grapplers has a favorite move. This is not a bad thing. Your body...

Bernardo Faria Hip Escape One of the best escapes a Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner can learn is the hip escape. It is one of the most fundamental principles of jiu jitsu, working both as a mount escape and preventing side control. You will...

The 5 Benefits of Smashing and Passing When we look at some of the absolute best ways to pass an opponent’s guard in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu we must always stop and pay tribute to the effective method of the smash pass. With the...

 Even a back take can have a silver lining What's that old cliche about teaching an old dog new tricks?  Recently during a visit to Carlos Farias' academy in Arizona, Bernardo Faria met Parker Lapp and that cliche was turned on its head...

Escaping the North South Position is one of the most challenging positions to escape - in fact most jiu jitsu coaches even say that there is not much you can do from there! Well - leave it to Bernardo Faria to show you...

    What do we drill? Anyone that trains must remember the first time we stepped foot on the mats. That’s where all these questions started. How to I tie my belt? Where do I stand? I’m not sure how to do the school warmup?...

Defending the half guard pass is all about one thing - the Half Guard Frame Tom Deblass (no gi half guard expert) and Bernardo Faria (master of all things half guard) break down how to defend against the half guard pass using the...

Last Ditch Try To Retain The Guard. And It Works! We’ve all been here a thousand times. During our training when playing guard, its critical we develop a sense of knowing when we’ve been “had”. Waiting too long to change positions when there’s...

An Easy Technique For A Quick Path To Submissions! For me, side control was the first position I felt comfortable in. I felt grounded there, and I felt that out of all the basic positions in BJJ, I could stay there much longer....

Why Half Guard is the Greatest BJJ Guard... Ever. It is undeniable, that the half guard is an essential position in Jiu Jitsu, Submission Grappling and MMA.   Here are 10 reasons why you need to know the half guard better than any other...

A Solid Foundation Is The Cornerstone Of A Great Jiu-Jitsu Game... We all learn in different ways, we all started at different academies, and all of our BJJ paths vary. This is one of the beautiful things about BJJ. No two practitioners are...

The over under pass has been a staple for years in the arsenals of many of the best BJJ athletes ever to walk the earth. Bernardo Faria has certainly done his fair share in making the over under pass the acclaimed superstar that...

This Solid Basic Will Be With You Throughout Your BJJ Journey. Get It Right NOW! The hip escape. Of course, you know how to do it. You train BJJ. The hip escape is quite possibly one of the most important skills you’ll ever...

Fine Details, And Positional Superiority Allow This Pass To Succeed! Opening the closed guard can present all kinds of problems to the passer. Especially in the case where size is a factor, and were dealing with someone much bigger and stronger than ourselves....