49+ min ago   (308+ words) In a recent interview on the channel Dieta de Guerra Jiu-Jitsu, Rolker Gracie, son of Helio Gracie, spoke about the traditions his father built inside the academy, traditions rooted firmly in Brazilian identity rather than imported Japanese customs. According to…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (347+ words) “Your first class in jiu-jitsu was the most important class,” Danaher said. “Everything you need to know for the long term, you learn in your first day.” Danaher kept building on it, laying out exactly what a beginner absorbs in…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (438+ words) Dima Murovanni, one of the sport’s most in-demand coaches, sat down on the Grapple Asia podcast while preparing his athletes for ADCC trials in Bangkok. Among the topics he broke down was the ecological, or constraints-led, approach to teaching jiu-jitsu,…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (402+ words) A trip to pick up a bottle of Pepsi Max turned into an unplanned lesson in ground control for one shopper at a Tesco this week, after a brown belt jiu-jitsu practitioner stepped in to restrain a man who had…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (402+ words) Rigan Machado, the 9th degree jiu-jitsu red belt and longtime instructor to Hollywood’s elite, addressed criticism of Ashton Kutcher‘s black belt head-on during an appearance on the Jiu-Jitsu Dummies podcast. Machado, who has built a reputation training celebrities out of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (191+ words) A viral video clip captioned “What’s happening to Jiu-Jitsu?” recently provoked a debate. The footage features a four-stripe white belt receiving an unusual promotion: a second white belt featuring a distinct stripe running down its length. The controversy coincides with…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (387+ words) Allan Goes is a seventh-degree coral belt, who earned his black belt from Carlson Gracie at 18 and went on to compete in Pride FC, the UFC and the IFL. Yet he says the sport-focused grappling dominating academies today simply doesn’t…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (645+ words) Brandon Farnsworth never expected mopping floors and rolling most days of the week at the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Torrance to turn into a plane ticket. But that is exactly what happened when his coaches pulled him aside and told…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (400+ words) When Henry Akins sat down with Josh McKinney for a podcast, the conversation turned toward a question every aging grappler eventually faces: how do you keep improving when your body stops cooperating? Akins, a black belt under Rickson Gracie, offered…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (988+ words) Hereford Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has turned the sport’s strong sense of community into a major fundraising effort. According to sources, the academy, along with its sister school in York, Pennsylvania, pulled in more than $26,000 for cancer research through Tap Cancer…...