Should Max Holloway be Conor McGregor's next fight? Max Holloway should be the next fight for Conor McGregor.  Conor is fresh off a loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov. While Khabib’s next fight seems obvious in Tony Ferguson, Conor’s next fight is not as clear....

Exploring the float tank trend in Jiu Jitsu… Float tanks, also known as isolation tanks or sensory deprivation tanks have been the recent trend in Jiu Jitsu. They bring to mind the recovery baths the brotherhood would take in the movie Wanted. In...

Rafael "Formiga" Barbosa has one of the most effective and dynamic butterfly guard games in the world. Check out these butterfly guard attacks that will instantly raise your level of attacks in gi and no gi Jiu Jitsu Rafael Formiga Barbosa of Soul...

Escaping the North South Position is one of the most challenging positions to escape - in fact most jiu jitsu coaches even say that there is not much you can do from there! Well - leave it to Bernardo Faria to show you...

In this Jiu Jitsu Self Defense Video, You'll Learn the 5 Basic Jiu Jitsu Techniques and Movements to Help You Defend Yourself in a Street Fight or Any Self Defense Situation. The demonstrator in this video is a Jiu Jitsu and MMA coach...

The top jiu jitsu coaches in the world agree that the Kimura Grip is one of the most powerful grips for attacking submissions... like the kimura, but also chain into other submissions. According to John Danaher The Kimura is one of the most...

John Danaher constantly encourages his jiu jitsu students (Gordon Ryan, Gary Tonon, Tom DeBlass, and others) to attack with the front head lock and guillotine attacks. But, why does Mr Danaher suggest attacking the front headlock? Simple - it is a grappling control...

Defend The Smash!!! Defending smashing guard passes is a whole different beast when compared to standing guard passes. With enough dexterity and hip movement, you can make your standing guard pass defense pretty sophisticated. When it comes to smashing guard passing however, defending...

Simple System For Successful Guillotines!  One thing Professor John Danaher does very well is create effective systems and have his students practice them a lot. Systems, for many grapplers, make more sense than just having a wide arsenal of techniques. In order to be...

    What do we drill? Anyone that trains must remember the first time we stepped foot on the mats. That’s where all these questions started. How to I tie my belt? Where do I stand? I’m not sure how to do the school warmup?...

Be Kind, But Protect Yourself, And Each Other We all need to roll to improve our jiu-jitsu. You must put yourself in real life positions to work on your game, find holes in what you need to work on, and get a good...

Train To Get The Submission...No Matter The Rules Since many matches in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition fail to end in submissions, various promotional organizations have set-up unique rule sets that allow them to measure which grappler performed better. Promotions that have a points-based...

Simple, Yet Effective Transition To The Mount! Taking the mount in a haphazard fashion from side control can land you in quite a bit of trouble. So often we see students trying to be greedy and step over to the mount too quickly...

A Systems Approach Will Simplify Complex Problems... With a constant stream of content released by John Danher it is easy to tell the benefit to having “systems” based approach. Having systems of attack has a multitude of benefits and it clearly shows with...

Ideas on a few supplements for the Jiu Jitsu athlete… We often discuss how Jiu Jitsu permeates every component of our lives. It becomes the reason to run, lift weights or do yoga the days we can’t possibly make it to the gym....