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The Coolest Submission Of 2014

I know it is a little old, but I had posted this video on my youtube channel a long time ago, and I couldn’t not post it on my blog too. In the World’s 2014 one of my teammates Marcos Tinoco, a brown belt at that time, used the cartwheel armbar in one of his […]

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 […]

5 Tips To Cut Weight For BJJ

Cutting weight for BJJ is very different than cutting weight for MMA, and other contact sports where the weigh in is one day before. When the weigh in is one day before, you can use a sauna, dehydration and similar things to help you cut weight. But in BJJ, especially at IBJJF the weigh in […]

How To Do The Front Hip Escape

Everyone who has ever trained BJJ has done the Hip Escape. For many of us this movement was learned in the first class we ever attended perhaps it was even the first movement in BJJ that you ever learned? What about the Front Hip Escape? Some of you reading may not even know what a Front Hip […]

How To Sweep The Bigger/Stronger Opponent by Mansher "Munchie" Khera

In 2013 I arrived in NYC to begin training and teaching at Marcelo Garcia’s Academy. I was unsure of what to expect; living in a new city, new country, new academy. On top of the normal worries that come with a new job and moving to a new place to live, I was nervous if […]

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