When you set out on your Jiu-Jitsu journey you will surely run into someone with a mind blowing guard that you feel is impossible to pass. A good guard player strives to make the passer feel this way. Constantly struggling against your...

As you start to build “your game” you find what you like when it comes to attacks, positions, guards, etcetera.  If you aren’t to this level yet, that’s ok, just keep showing up, training hard, and you will be there before you know...

  What is the most dangerous move for beginners? You may be thinking heel hook, or some other foot lock variation, but to Alec Baulding it’s the jumping guard pull. If you watch the video below from his YouTube he goes into great...

Lucas Leite has one of the best half guards in the history of BJJ. His work with the position is nothing short of genius, and watching him masterfully employ it in a competition setting is pleasure to view. With the release of the...

Jiu Jitsu is a natural step for a lot of wrestlers, whether it be during middle school or high school that they start training Jiu Jitsu along side the wrestling they are training after school, or maybe they don’t find their way to...

Have you ever been working your guard and just wanted a consistent way to utilize the same grips instead of always switching? Spider guard might be THE guard for you. Spider guard is a combination of sleeve grip(s) and using your feet to...

The single leg x guard is another one of those incredibly off balancing guards that we often deal with in training. Marcelo Garcia is one of the pioneers of the position and for years I remember getting all of the information on the...

What is the most important thing you should focus on in Jiu Jitsu?  As you can imagine, the answer to this can vary greatly depending on who you ask.  It may be the ability to pass guard, or the ability to maintain your...

The triangle choke or strangle, depending on your preferred terminology, is one of the newest submissions in Jiu Jitsu, or grappling in general.  Thought to be first developed in Japan in the early 1900’s slightly before World War One, the triangle strangle submission...

One of the very first positions we learn when we start training is the closed guard.  How to lock out feet, how to use it to control the opponent if they are trying to throw strikes and how to execute sweeps and submissions...

Leg locks is something that may still be new to you.  If you’re new to Jiu Jistu or started training in the last year or so, you have the upper hand in that many academies, not all, but several, just recently started really...

In the words of Professor Dean Lister “Why would you ignore 50% of the human body?” Jiu Jitsu is continually changing, as the sport evolves, we have elite athletes such as Gordon Ryan or Garry Tonon dominating on the mats as a result...

It is very likely that you have never had a problem with your grip not being strong enough…  That is, until you started training Jiu Jitsu. Is it ever strong enough? I feel like, as with everything in Jiu Jitsu, it is one...

By now you have probably realized that Triangle strangles are everywhere as one of my favorite submissions, it always good to research new ways to make the setup happen.  There is nothing more frustrating than “almost” getting a submission, but not quite. In...

  Closed Guard chatter has been picking up if you’ve been listening. A lot of talk of the Jiu-Jitsu “Meta Game” gets thrown around after major events happen. Most recently was the IBJJF World Championships and the conversation is being had across the...