First of all, do not do any of the following: tell the person who just tapped you that you’re injured. explain that you weren’t going 100%. roll again and start coaching them to let them know that you weren’t going 100% the whole time. curse, yell, or angrily tell them “let’s go again!” No matter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
continue from part 1 Information in this article was taken mostly from a book that I recommend, mostly for it’s history section, “Mastering JuJitsu” by Renzo Gracie and John Danaher. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has it’s roots in the Gracie family, but the Gracies learned from Mitsuyo Meada (1878-1941), “Count Coma.” He was doing mixed martial arts [...]
For years I had only heard about the history of Jiu-Jitsu from the Gracies. Rorion Gracie said that his father Helio was the driving force behind most of the evolution of Jiu-Jitsu from what they learned from Count Koma. In the Machado’s schools and in other circles, there is talk about the older brother Carlos’s [...]
I have to say that the Gracies have made a huge contribution to my life. I love Jiu-Jitsu. It is one of the most amazing martial arts I have ever encountered, that I am still challenged and mystified by. I am very thankful to them. They have helped make me a more complete martial artist and [...]
