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BJJ for the Older Grappler with Rick Ellis

BJJ for the Older Grappler with Rick Ellis

    The idea that grappling is universally beneficial for the body doesn't quite hit the mark. Brazilian Jiujitsu is a challenging and physically demanding sport. It's often associated with the vigor...

Creating the Reverse Bulldog Choke with Dominic Dillon

Creating the Reverse Bulldog Choke with Dominic Dillon

Dominic Dillon is a lifelong martial artist (having started his training with his dad at age 4!) and now holds black belts in kickboxing, Japanese Jiujitsu, Karate, and BJJ. Dominic...

A Chat with Jake about Effective Counterattacks for Jiujitsu

A Chat with Jake about Effective Counterattacks for Jiujitsu

In this quick chat, staff member Kurt Weber sits down with Budo Jake to discuss Jake's newest instructional: Effective Counterattacks for Jiujitsu. KW: Jake it’s been a few years since...

Budo Jake Podcast 3 with Erik Paulson

Budo Jake Podcast 3 with Erik Paulson

In this episode, join me on a wild conversation with Erik Paulson covering a whole slew of topics such as:  Early days of MMA in Japan Fighting vs coaching Risk...

The Budo Jake Podcast - Premiere Episode with Bruno

The Budo Jake Podcast - Premiere Episode with Bruno "Mamute" Paulista

New for 2021!  The new Budo Jake Podcast gives me an opportunity to have a casual conversations with leaders in the martial arts world. In this episodes I chat with Bruno Paulista, better...

Best way to secure back control by Malachy Friedman

Best way to secure back control by Malachy Friedman

Being on your opponent's back is well regarded as one of the best positions to be in BJJ or MMA. Being on the back, it's very difficult for your opponent...

The Quest to Define BJJ Fundamentals by Budo Jake

The Quest to Define BJJ Fundamentals by Budo Jake

A Quest to Define the BJJ Fundamentals (Originally appeared in Jiu-Jitsu Style Magazine)   Advice that is often heard in jiu jitsu schools around the globe is to “Focus on...

Street Self Defense with Bjorn Friedrich

Street Self Defense with Bjorn Friedrich

Longtime martial arts practitioner and instructor Bjorn Friedrich, recently released a new instructional video on effective street self defense titled Control the Chaos and we recently caught up with him...

Should we be practicing both sides? By Budo Jake

Should we be practicing both sides? By Budo Jake

Does it make sense to practice everything on both sides in Jiu-jitsu? In my experience it's common practice in Jiu-jitsu classes for the instructor to tell the students to practice...

Flashback to 2012: Eddie Bravo vs Shawn Williams

Flashback to 2012: Eddie Bravo vs Shawn Williams

It's hard to believe it's been 7 years already. It was the summer of 2012 and Budo Dane and I had a live weekly jiu-jitsu show. This was well before...

Nic Gregoriades on Jiu-jitsu, Fitness & Longevity

Nic Gregoriades on Jiu-jitsu, Fitness & Longevity

Nic Gregoriades is a well-known Jiu-Jitsu instructor with the unique title of being Roger Gracie's first black belt. Since Nic just came out with a new fitness instructional called BudoFit,...

BJJ Tournament Tips From Seasoned Referees and White Belts

BJJ Tournament Tips From Seasoned Referees and White Belts

Everyone has to start somewhere when they are wanting to compete, so once you have honed your skills as best you can and have your white belt safely secured, the...

TWIBJJ 91 with Tyler Bishop & Sarah Black!

On today's episode of This Week in BJJ: Respect 2 Live PPV on Oct 17th! 16 superfights including Gianni Grippo vs Jeff Curran and Megaton vs Chris Haueter! Watch live...

TWIBJJ 87 with Red Belt Flavio Behring

Today's episode of This Week in BJJ is a very special one! This marks my first interview with a BJJ red belt. Flavio has been training for almost 70 years!...

TWIBJJ 86 with Atos Black Belt Tim Sledd

Topics on today's show are: A recap of EBI 4. The replay is available right here until the end of the month. ADCC 2015 will be streaming live from Brazil...

TWIBJJ 85 with Geo Martinez

Today's guest on This Week in BJJ is 10th Planet Black Belt Geo Martinez. Geo has been hitting the competitions hard in the past couple of years winning EBI 1,...