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Deep Half Guard Is Apparently Back, According To People Who Swear It Never Left

Man With Prop Cash Suitcase Posts $10 Million Crypto Screenshot; Community Somehow Believes It

Andre Galvao's 'Indefinite' Suspension From His Own Company Lasted Five Weeks

Chuck Norris Was a Real BJJ Black Belt. A Senator Lied About Being One. And CJI 3 Booked Dillon Danis.

ADCC Gave Women A Raise And Somehow Made The Pay Gap Worse

IBJJF Pans Starts Tuesday And Your Instagram Feed Is About To Become Unbearable

UFC BJJ Says 'No Butt-Scooting' While Their Champion Is Literally Mikey Musumeci

Colby Covington Calls Dillon Danis 'The Strength of 10 Men' and Nobody Can Tell If He's Serious

Claudia Gadelha Clarifies She Wasn't Talking About Gordon Ryan When She Said 'Gordon' By Name

Tye Ruotolo Calls It 'The Ultimate Scissoring Championship' And Honestly We Needed That

UFC BJJ 6: Eight Matches, One Submission, And The Crowd Goes Mild

Atos 'Separates' From Andre Galvao The Way You 'Separate' From Your Own Shadow

How To Roll With Girls

BJJ as a martial art is very personal experience which is heavily dependent on the individual and their own journey. As much as we train to focus on ourselves and our improvement it is nothing without our training partners. We make each other better, we challenge one another and

The Definitive Guide to Translating Post-Tap Comments

Tapping - Most of us will do it at least twice through the journey to black belt and beyond. But whether you're pulling off dozens of subs per sesh or still more nail than hammer, sooner or later you'll start to notice your partners repeating certain phrases afterward. I'm here t

Competition and The Phantom Menace

Josh, a wrestling coach I used to train with, told me there were two competitive personalities to adopt in a tournament. He used an analogy to the lightsaber fight from The Phantom Menace to demonstrate. I can’t remember exactly how he put it so I will paraphrase. It starts with

Hammer vs. Nail

No matter where you are in your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu journey you would have heard the phrase, ‘Some days you’re the hammer and some days you’re the nail’. You may have heard it at your academy, seen it embedded on an inspirational Instagram post or perhaps you’ve muttered it to yo

Jiu Jitsu Changed My Life

Five years ago, I was a few months shy of my thirty-eighth birthday - and miserable. I was blessed with a lovely wife and an infant son, but was disgusted with myself. During my mid-30’s a stressful job (government attorney), poor diet, and a sedentary lifestyle had led me to con

For The Last time, I Dont Do Karate: An Open Letter

It all started on the fateful day when you appeared in the break room, coffee cup poised in the small talk position, and sidled in toward me like you had some grand secret.

Ask BJJ Problems

Here at BJJ Problems we get lots of questions from readers, asking if we have solutions for their BJJ-related woes. Here to answer them as always is our advice columnist, A Guy Who Took a Long Time Off and Is Self Conscious About His Rank.

Rafa Mendes: An Extensive Haircut Study

There have been exuberant amounts of Rafa posts lately, many of which cover his sensational instagram posts, his magnificent technique, or his phenomenal career. However, many of you have failed to realize the significant impact a good haircut has had on his career. In this study

Strengthen Your Ego - Improve your BJJ

Everyone in jiu-jitsu at some point hears some variation of the advice, “Leave your ego at the door.” What this is getting at is that people shouldn’t come to jiu-jitsu expecting to smash everybody. After all why would you want to participate in a sport where a day one beginner c

Buchecha Online: New BJJ Learning Portal Now Live

Over the weekend Marcus Almeida Buchecha announced the arrival of his new instructional website, ‘BuchechaOnline’. Visitors to the site are able to explore content available but a subscription is required to watch the videos.

Yoga For BJJ: Why You Should Start Today

You’ve probably heard about the fundamental benefits of yoga such as; improving flexibility and mobility, developing strength and balance as well as encouraging relaxation. These are all great in itself but yoga has so much more to offer, especially to a BJJ practitioner. Whateve

Staying Motivated in BJJ

Conclusion Motivation is something that waxes and wanes for all of us. Hopefully after you read this post you’ll get a boost of motivation to keep hitting the mats. I have found that BJJ training has been nothing but a positive in my life. I get (and provide) value by training in

Why is "Pulling Guard" mocked in the BJJ community?

A lot of folks don't seem to understand that there's a separation between these three things. If you're good at one, it will make it easier to be good at the others. If you practice two, then you'll most certainly be able to apply that knowledge to catch up with the third. The si

What to do when someone goes unconscious from a choke

Getting choked out happens in the world we have created for ourselves. It's so common that most of us are aware of what to do in the case that it does - and we can all laugh at it whether we're the choker, chokee or just an observer.

John Danaher explains why he always wears rashguards

First, they are very comfortable, Second, they are easily washed and dried. Third, they are extremely low maintenance/wrinkle free/easily packed for travel etc. Fourth, being a low friction material, they are well adapted for wear under a jacket. Fifth, They enable me to comforta

Ronda announces "I would love to have a chance to be the Jiu-Jitsu world champion".

Motorcycle Rider subdues road-rager with Knee-on-Chest

Moldova's Valeriu Duminica shows an incredible transition from takedown and into submission