Great Foundations Build Great Grapplers! In my early years of practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, I was often keen on quickly moving through the fundamental techniques of the curriculum to progress to complicated techniques and weird guards. The grapplers I watched mostly, the Mendes...

Technical Jiu-Jitsu Always Wins... How many game changing details do you think it’s possible to learn in one 10-minute video? Every time I’m treated to some instruction with John Danaher, I’m immediately glued to the screen, and making a list of phenomenal details that...

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...

You Have A Great Base...Now Believe In The Technique! Wrestling is just about the best background you can have when starting jiu-jitsu. You have at least a little knowledge on the ground, you know how to control your own/others body, and you are...

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...

Punishment Brings Success...Keep On Pushing... The Greek myth of Sisyphus is a story about a man who was condemned by the Gods to push a boulder to the top of a tall mountain only to have it fall down again. Over and over...

You Work Hard To Get Better. Enjoy Your Jiu-Jitsu! We all have our favorite techniques, our bread and butter sweeps, and our go to submissions. But which is most satisfying for you? Maybe it’s the type of submission where you dominate and leave...

You Will Not Regret The Lessons Learned On The Competition Mats! You’ll never look back and say, “Man, I really wish I hadn’t tested myself”. Over the course of our lifetime we’ll be presented with challenges in many forms. Life throws us various...

The arm drag is a common technique found in most martial arts in some form or another, it is a bread and butter move for fighting and grappling because it allows us to create an angle where can then land strikes or attack...

Do Not Get Complacent...And Be An Example Of Good Jiu-Jitsu Practices As a student who has been training for a while it is important to remember that new students will look to how others train. For an academy this can be a great...

Just Trust That Things Will Work... And, In Time, The Will This concept may drive some people nuts, but the idea behind it can be highly beneficial in BJJ. “Faking” it means acting the way you plan to be. In Jiu-Jitsu means having...

What is the Value of a Belt? The older I get, the more I realize you never quite get what you deserve. Rarely does the punishment fit the crime. Rarely does the reward fit the prize. For example, even if your job pays...

Sneaky Arm Lock For A Quick Submission! We love sneaky submissions that come out of nowhere. Especially when your opponent may be in the middle of mounting their offense and we take advantage at just the right moment. These may be some of...

Demetrious Johnson To OneFC. Will He Compete In More Than Just MMA? Demetrious Johnson was “traded” in a historic and never-before-seen move from the UFC to the huge Asian fight promotion ONE FC. This comes after Demetrious lost his belt to Henry Cejudo...

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...