The Best Sweep vs Bigger Opponents by 8x World Black Belt Champion Bruno Malfacine
If there is one guy that I have TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR IN THIS BJJ WORLD. The guy below is the one I’m talking about. Imagine that you are the smallest and lightest guy in the class, but now imagine that you are also the toughest and biggest champion in the class, wait a second, not […]
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 […]
5 Tips to Avoid Berimbolo, 50/50 and Scrambles
Is there anything more annoying in Jiu-Jitsu than competing or training against someone that you know you are “better” than, but you end up getting caught by the modern techniques and he goes to your back, or maybe stales the game, or maybe beats you by 1 advantage? Yes, since these new techniques have come […]
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 […]