3 Things to Consider When Buying Your First BJJ Gi
You’ve had a taste, been hooked and now you’ve decided to embark on your BJJ journey. Good for you. All you need now is the uniform– the gi. You need…
Marcelo Garcia Versus UFC Heavyweight Andrei Arlovski
Marcelo Garcia is widely regarded as the greatest jiujitsu athlete of all time. I found an old footage of him rolling with UFC veteran Andrei Arlovski. Keep in mind that…
7 Tips For Improving Your Leg Lock Game
For many years leglocks were considered inferior submissions in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Even today there are still coaches out there, who believe that learning leglocks will hamper student progress. However,…
Greatest BJJ Competitors of All Time Ranked (Gi and No-Gi)
Picking and ranking the greatest gi and no-gi grapplers of all time is not an easy task. It’s always a challenge to compare athletes and easy to fall victim to…
10 Beginner Tips To Quickly Improve Your BJJ
When it comes to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) nothing beats mat time, consistency and good hands-on instruction. With that said, there are a few things that you can do to…
How Long Does A BJJ Purple Belt Take?
We previously wrote about how long a BJJ blue belt takes and summarized that it should take an average of 2-3 years for someone who attends class and rolls regularly.…
How To Roll With Different Types of People In BJJ
In a previous article, we went over how important it is to spar/roll in jiu jitsu. Sparring is vital, and you should force yourself to spar with different types of…
3 Principles of BJJ for Absolute Beginners (Roadmap to Submitting Your Opponent)
Starting jiu jitsu is tough and we’ve all been there. You learn all these complicated techniques that forces us to contort your body in every which way. And then you think you got some techniques down but when you start rolling/sparring, everything you learn goes out the window and you are nothing more than a chicken with its head cut off. (more…)
7 Long-Lasting Gis for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
A gi provides tremendous benefits towards BJJ sparring because it slows down the action and forces the practitioners to be more methodical. Practitioners of this combat sport cannot solely rely…
How to Keep Your Jiu Jitsu Gi from Smelling
Being known as the person with the stinky gi in class is not a good reputation to have. Ideally, this traditional uniform worn by judo and jiu jitsu practitioners need…