Closed Guard: Breaking The Posture and Finishing With The Armbar By Dan Covel
Dan Covel is a black belt who trains here at Marcelo’s school with us. Dan is very well known about his tough closed guard. Even tough he is not heavy, he is normally feather or light weight, if you let him close the guard, its always a problem to get out from there without getting […]
Very Cool BJJ Warm Up
Every time I’m traveling for seminars, I always try to learn something new, it can be a different warm up, or a different technique, or something about managing the school, or some different way to teach, anything new makes me happy. In 2011, traveling to Germany I learned a very cool exercise to use as […]
Bernardo Faria’s Over/Under Pass Study
This Blog post below was not written by me, it was written by Graham Barlow (www.bjjnotebook.com), who seems to be a big fan of my BJJ Style. So I asked him for permission to post it on my blog. I hope you guys enjoy it. OSSS Graham Barlow: “I’ve been playing about with this guard […]
The Most Dangerous Position In BJJ
In your opinion what is the most dangerous technique in BJJ? Well, I bet many people would say heel hook, knee bar, some crazy takedown, or something like that. But there is one specific position in Jiu-Jitsu, that I never see too many people talking about and thankfully IBJJF made it illegal. In my opinion […]
How To Unlock The Lockdown
For sure there is someone at your school who does the lockdown, right? It can be one of the most annoying positions in BJJ. Because besides the fact that it can hurt your knee, your opponent can also stale the game and completely stop your moves using this lockdown from the bottom half-guard. Most of […]
The Ideal Game For "The Old Grappler"
The ideal Game For The “Old Grappler”: Last year (2015), in one of my seminars, a student attending the seminar came to me and said: “Hey Bernardo, I love your game, because it is really good for guys getting old like me…” he was in his 40’s. He went on to explain that because he […]