As a new blue belt, I attended one of the first high profile BJJ seminars I had ever attended with the legendary Alexandre Ribeiro.  Since it was over a decade ago and I was a new blue belt visiting a strange academy, the...

In the last half decade, no group of grapplers has had a a greater impact on the landscape of competitive BJJ then the rag tag collection of super athletes coming out of the "blue basement" of Renzo Gracie's home academy in Manhattan.  Led...