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BJJ students: Reward yourself!

BJJ students: Reward yourself! BJJ students: Reward yourself! One of the biggest questions I get from white and bluebelts is “what am I doing wrong?’ You are doing nothing wrong, you are still a beginner. Jiu-Jitsu is an art of patience, learned mostly by trial and error. First, focus on the things you are doing […]

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Back attack tips in BJJ

Back attack tips in BJJ Here is a back attack tips in BJJ. When behind an opponent, create the constant threat of chokes and make them defend. Everything else you do feeds off this. The back is the ultimate position in no-gi grappling (and you could also argue that the same is true in gi […]

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Fighting bigger opponents in BJJ

Fighting bigger opponents in BJJ Fighting bigger opponents in BJJ can be rough. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is one of the few combat sports that still allows open weight competition where smaller athletes can be matched against much larger opponents. In addition, in daily training at your Academy, we are routinely matched with larger training partners. Whenever […]

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Art of teaching BJJ

Art of teaching BJJ There is an art of teaching BJJ, once you start teaching, you have to find your niche’. I was so lucky in my BJJ journey to have been able to train under some amazing Master of BJJ, Royler and Renzo Gracie, David Adiv, John Danaher and Sean Williams. And now w/ […]

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Implementing your game in Jiu-Jitsu

Implementing your game in Jiu-Jitsu Implementing your game in Jiu-Jitsu is a place where BJJ practitioners sometimes overthink. When you see an opening, you have to try it. The old BJJ philosophy comes into play here…win or learn. If you try and it works, you gain confidence to do it again. In addition, if it […]