After your first week of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, you will quickly realize the areas you are lacking strength and conditioning in. You can try to address these problem areas by site specific training, but adding in that many workouts to your already taxing...

Can Swimming Help The Ground Be Your Ocean   There is much controversy regarding strength training outside of Jiu Jitsu. Some claim that it hampers our grappling skills while some claim benefits to it. Some of the greatest grapplers ever do not lift...

Kettlebell training can be one of the smartest thing you add to your weekly training schedule to supplement your BJJ.  There are very few fitness tools that can leave your heart pounding and lungs burning, while hitting more muscles than you knew you...

The deep waters of BJJ.  We've all felt them.  Whether we are brand new practitioners first starting to roll or veterans which thousands of matches under our colored belts, that feeling that comes over you as you are trying desperately to catch your...

So 2018 is well under way and maybe your New Years resolutions are not going as well as planned.  If the whole "New Year, New Me" hype fizzled out for you not long after the ball dropped in New York City, there is...

Tom DeBlass recently went to his social media channels and issued a warning to his students about skipping the class warm up.  If you've following Tom DeBlass for any length of time, you most likely realize behind that smile and the sense of...

Today, right here and now, you are going to stop asking yourself if you are too old to train BJJ.  If you have not started, today is the day that you find the nearest reputable BJJ academy and set up a time to...

If you train BJJ, you already know what kind of workout you are capable of getting.  There are very few jiu jitsu classes that one can attend where they don't come away covered in sweat with their hearts pounding and their muscles exhausted....

We all know how much pains and soreness are associated with bjj.  There’s an old saying in Jiu Jitsu “If you train Jiu Jitsu and wake up without pain, you’re probably dead.” This couldn’t be truer.  There are so many pains that come...

In the corner of your gym or BJJ academy there lies the key to an endless gas tank, hip mobility, and overall strength that will make your training partners and opponents tremble, knowing that you are immune to the deep waters of fatigue...