The D’arce choke is typically a submission that we see more in a no gi setting. Cinching this incredibly tight strangle is a bit easier without the gi material in your way. However, it is not uncommon to see a D’arce in...

  A phrase you will hear likely from day one until you no longer need to hear it is “have faith in the system”.  Sometimes this is easier said than done, and in the beginning can be rather confusing. Faith in what system...

OK, so it often doesn’t really help to compare styles, each of which have their own strengths and weaknesses. What is helpful however is surprising people with a style they don’t know and exploiting their lack of experience to our own advantage! When...

  As ADCC 2019 approaches, we can’t help but begin to feel the electricity surrounding the event. With Seth Daniels (creator of Fight to Win) at the helm, the show itself is guaranteed to reach another level of production and excitement that we...

Being a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is no easy feat and takes years of dedication. By the time you are able to tie that stiff brown belt around your waist, over and over because it always comes undone, you have put...

Neil Melanson has an incredibly rich grappling pedigree so it’s great to have him with us here at BJJ Fanatics teaching his unorthodox and incredibly effective style. Neil has trained UFC athletes at the highest level, including Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, Dominick Cruz,...

  When you are just getting started in Jiu Jitsu it’s important that you pick the right training partners.  Having the right training partner in the beginning can make all of the difference in the long game. While there are a lot of...

When you first start training there are a million things coming at you all at once.  It seems within the first few months or maybe even the first year it is basically a whirlwind of information.  Between trying to learn the fundamental positions...

  When you first started out rolling as a white belt, you probably tried one attack over and over and it didn’t work. Why not? Coach just showed it to you and you felt like you had it down pretty well during drilling. ...

  One of the most enjoyable things about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is that there's always something new to learn. As I continue to roll and learn, I am finally learning to avoid the same old traps that I fell into time and time...

  Jiu-Jitsu’s deepest roots are in self defense. IF you look back at the history of BJJ and its growth, you’ll see it was built on a foundation of self-defense, proving its worth through a great number of contests where the rules were...

There’s a rapidly growing number of women in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu releasing instructional material. These successful practitioners, competitors, and titans of the sport are beginning to share some amazing secrets with the masses. BJJ Fanatics has been fortunate to work with some of these...

Neil Melanson has an incredibly rich grappling pedigree so it’s great to have him with us here at BJJ Fanatics teaching his unorthodox and incredibly effective style. Neil has trained UFC athletes at the highest level, including Randy Couture, Vitor Belfort, Dominick Cruz,...

When it comes to the battleground of competition, most competitors aspire towards the appearance of invulnerability and of a battle-tested warrior in the classical sense. We envision ourselves strutting around the periphery of the competition mats with the nonchalance of George C. Scott’s...

  We are fortunate to live at a time when people are living longer.  But as we are living longer lives, we have to deal with the question of how we're going to spend all of that extra time. After all, what's the...