The first emotion that most new practitioners feel when confronted with the long mat and the opening warm-ups is bewilderment. You want me to do what my body? Shrimping? Pummeling with my legs in what directions? Invert so that my feet and...

  The D’arce, anaconda choke, and arm in guillotine are all birds of a feather. These chokes are able to be put together seamlessly to create an incredibly powerful onslaught on the neck. If you’re pursuing one, there’s certainly the others hiding in...

What can we really say about guard passing?  It’s fundamental… refusing to recognize this, and dedicate the appropriate attention to not only guard retention for your game, but guard passing is well, suicide.  We must give guard passing the attention it deserves.  It...

When you are learning new techniques that are similar to other techniques it’s easy to sometimes get them confused.  There are so many names for these techniques and sometimes it seems like it is one thing but in reality, because of a simple...

John Danaher is one of the most sought after coaches in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu today. His ability to break down concepts and techniques into systematic and easy to understand elements sees both his athletes performing at unbelievably high levels and his online tutorials in...

  The D’arce choke is a fantastic submission that we can apply gi or no gi. Though it can be tricky to pick the D’arce choke out among its brothers and sisters, there are some requirements for body positioning that will lend themselves...

In real estate, they have a saying: "Always be closing."  In BJJ, our version of that saying would probably be "Always be passing."   While some of us like to label ourselves submission hunters, we'd be better served if we thought of ourselves more...

After one of the best-produced, most highly attended and viewed ADCC World Championships in history, it has already been announced that Mo Jassim will again take the healm with the help of the production team behind the fireworks in Anaheim, Seth Daniels and...

  We’ve all seen Tom DeBlass look back at his opponents and smile when they try to apply a leg lock during a match. In fact, I’ve seen this smile before when training with DeBlass myself. Like a little cub trying to get...

It might not feel like it but the holiday season is right around the corner and December will be here before you know it, bringing with it Submission Underground 10! On December 22nd, the next of the SUG series will take place in...

For the last two weeks I have been traveling through Europe, and while it would have been amazing to make a guest appearance at a local Jiu Jitsu school there weren’t a lot of options in some places and not enough time in...

We might have heard the saying that we can’t build a house without foundations and that’s also true for many other creative projects, including training in a martial art.  It can be easy to think of foundations or fundamentals as something that we...

One of the most important aspects of your BJJ game is passing. Without a good understanding of how to pass the guard, your BJJ will simply be incomplete and never reach its full potential. Many times, the passing procedures we enjoy most depend...

We may have many personal reasons for practising jiu-jitsu, fitness, lifestyle, a social activity, or a sport, but the main attraction to and roots of BJJ is a system that an individual can use to protect themselves from attack.  Understanding the jiu-jitsu philosophy...

  Israel Adesanya achieved what he set out to achieve in the UFC in 7 ELECTRIC fights. If you knew about Adesanya before his UFC Tenure you probably aren’t all that surprised, considering his kickboxing credentials. But if you predicted the whirlwind rise...