We just released our first grappling DVD entitled BJJ Basics: Jiu-Jitsu for Beginners covering the principles, positions, and strategies that will give you a 6-month headstart in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu before you even set foot on the mat.
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If you still have less than 6 months of training under your belt or have never had the luxury of a qualified instructor then this DVD is for … (Read more)
If you want to improve your grip in any form of grappling, whether it be Gi, No-Gi, or MMA, I am going to tell you the one tool to start using in the gym today.
Bring a hand towel with you!
Not a wash rag, but a decent size hand towel. What are you going to do with this you ask?
You are going to start using it for the mechanics of every workout.
Been doing tricep pull downs with the bar? Not anymore… (Read more)
11-0, 10 by way of guillotine (actually it’d be 13-0 with 12 guillotines if they counted his most recent Ultimate Fighter 12 wins). 12 out of 13 wins by way of guillotine…that’s absolutely nuts. I read somewhere that he has the third most guillotine submission wins in the world and one of the guys in front of him has 250 fights.
After I saw his last victory on Ultimate Fighter 12, when everybody knew what was comi… (Read more)
Over the past few days I’ve been exchanging emails with Serra Jiu-Jitsu’s Billy Hofacker, Billy Ho (cool nickname right?) is a Matt/Nick Serra brown belt and runs a site called TrainingforMMAFitness.com. Not to mention he manages a Serra Jiu-Jitsu location and instructs there.
In those emails we’ve been dis… (Read more)
A facebook friend posed this question to me. Below is his full question and my response. Forgive my grammer and punctuation I just wanted to post it as is. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts in the comments or twitter or facebook or wherever you’re reading this…I’d like to know your opinions!
_Hello Jonathan, this is Anwar, I read your info that you post here on Facebook quite often and was wondering if you woul… (Read more)
Whether it be after a takedown or by guard pass, sometimes you’ll end up in what’s called the half guard.
It’s when you’re only able to capture one of your opponent’s legs. Control over one leg is better than control over, well, NO legs.
There are a couple different ways to maintain the position and prevent him from passing both legs, but I think below is the most common.
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A while back I had an opportunity to get Stephan Kesting of BeginningBJJ.com on the phone so he could highlight the 6 main grappling positions for us MMA beginners.
I think before you even step foot on a mat you should at least have a decent idea of what you’re trying to accomplish.
There’s no better place to begin than with a basic understanding of … (Read more)
Open guard is kind of difficult to define in the sense that it’s dynamic (constantly changing or moving) and not static like much of the closed guard position.
So if the closed guard is when your feet are hooked together around your opponent’s … (Read more)
I’ll be taking you guys through all the basic brazilian jiu jitsu positions, but we’ll start with closed guard. Defining what it is, what it looks like, and following that with your strategies from the top and bottom.
In the closed guard you have your legs wrapped around your opponent on the ground with your feet hooked together behind him.
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