The triangle choke is a submission grapplers learn earlier on in their Brazilian Jiu Jitsu journey. It seems that as students progress through the belt system of Jiu Jitsu, some gravitate towards advancing the triangle choke while others begin to forget about i...

The head and arm choke, also known as the kata gatami is a strangle submission used in grappling with great success. This is one of the more popular submissions MMA fighters look for when they establish top positions like mount, side control, and...

One of my personal favorite submissions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the triangle choke. As a grappler with longer legs, I find success with the triangle quite well and have made it one of my staple submissions. Although the triangle choke is mostly...

The UFC returned to London yesterday and we got to witness a clash between two stalwarts of the Welterweight division in Jorge Masvidal and Darren Till. There was much build up leading into the event with the winner sure to land a top...

Although most students learn this submission early on in their grappling career, the guillotine remains a very underappreciated submission in Jiu Jitsu.  Most students I talk complain about the difficulty of finishing this submission against anyone who isn’t in their first grappling class...

The half guard is probably the first position new grapplers look to expand to after they have gotten bored with the traditional stuff like closed guard, side control, and mount. Overall, half guard is a great position, especially for the inexperienced, because there...

Having your back taken by a decently skilled grappler can be exhausting physically and mentally. I recall that in my earlier days, I would get so frustrated with someone controlling my back that it would cause me to make a silly mistake that...

  One of the most useful group of submissions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu are the head and arm strangles. This is a family of related submissions that have a lot of diversity both in where to set them up from and how to...

The half guard is one of the most, if not the most, utilized positions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Amongst beginners looking to expand their game beyond the difficulty of closed guard, half guard provides greater potential in terms of sweeps and submission attempts....

Although you’ve definitely heard this before, if you are a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner, you absolutely need to learn how to execute takedowns. Wrestling is a part of Jiu Jitsu that just cannot be ignored, even if you see the highest level guys...

If you train Jiu Jitsu, you will have gotten to use half guard and its many variations many times. The half guard is widely popular among many grapplers and some people even use it as their primary guard. Grapplers like Tom Deblass, who...

Traditionally, if we are in a stand up situation in a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu match, we are looking for takedowns, snap downs, and potentially guillotines if one is comfortable. More advanced and exciting competitors will even opt for a variety of jumping submissions...

You’ve probably heard this word a million times in Jiu Jitsu but have yet to really learn and understand it. The sprawl, as we all know, is a basic defense to many takedowns. This technique works very well, but only when done well....

If you are a new student getting ready to begin Jiu Jitsu, it is important that you learn some of the basic rules of Jiu Jitsu and being a student at an academy so that you don’t make too bad of an impression...

One of the most intricate and cool looking positions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is spider guard. In spider guard, the guard player dominates their opponent’s upper body using their legs. There are many forms of spider guard one can play with. The traditional...