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What is Ginastica Natural?

By on May 26th, 2011

What is Ginastica Natural? Students often ask me what is the best conditioning for BJJ.  My first answer: BJJ!  You will continue to develop technique as well as your conditioning, whereas if you went jogging, there is no technical benefit. Doing more BJJ isn’t always possible.  You may not be able to make it to the […]

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How to Roll Fluidly

By on April 19th, 2011

This video is of Marcelo Garcia and Ryan Hall demonstrating a different type of rolling.  They are mainly going for positions, not submissions.

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Are Leg Locks Part of Jiu-Jitsu? Part 2

By on November 4th, 2009

continued from part 1… 4) Higher level practitioners do them and not lower level because most BJJ practitioners are not good at leg locks.  If they are a brown belt, their leg locks are normally at blue belt level.  Beginners may be told that they will learn them when they are higher rank, but in […]

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Are Leg Locks Part of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?

By on October 30th, 2009

There is a bit of controversy on this topic.  When I started training and I was originally under the Gracies, I was told that leg locks are: 1)  dangerous 2) on kneebars you turn your back, and turning your back is really bad 3) if you train them your guard passes will suffer 4) that […]

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