I love Eddie Cummings. Cummings is my favourite grappler to watch and I have always been captivated with his game-planning and strategy. For an elite grappler to approach each match with a one track plan to attack the legs is ludicrous, but Cummings’ success rate has been phenomenal throughout his
Read moreI love MMA. The thrill of watching a big fight is unrivaled and circus surrounding the build up to fight night is intoxicating. I also love to watch high level grappling, there’s something special about watching the best in the world go at it and seeing cutting-edge technique unfolding live.
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On Sunday, elite no-gi black belt competitor Kyle Boehm made a post on Instagram accusing former members of the Danaher Death Squad (DDS) and current members of New Wave Jiu-Jitsu of participating in “fake” or fixed matches. In the now-deleted post, the 10th Planet black belt shows a screenshot of
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Garry Tonon will have to wait just a bit longer for his much-anticipated title shot against ONE Championship lightweight champion Thanh Le. The promotion’s ten-year anniversary event, ONE: X, has been postponed until 2022, ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong announced via Facebook. The event was originally slated for December 5
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One of the best competition teams in the history of competitive jiu-jitsu is officially no more. On Sunday, John Danaher, head coach of the legendary Danaher Death Squad, announced that the team is no longer together as a single training and competition unit. Danaher announced the news via a lengthy
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In the lead up to Polaris 12 Luke Rockhold fanned the flames of the on-going debate as to whether leglocks have a place in Jiu Jitsu, simultaneously suggesting that leglocks weren’t a good idea for self defence situations and that a leglock-based game wouldn’t be suitable for MMA. “I think
Read moreOn the JRE MMA SHOW Firas Zahabi revealed his all time favourite grappling match and what he considers to be the current top BJJ gym. He also predicted the winner of the main event of Polaris 12, Nick Rodriguez v Luke Rockhold. On the most recent episode of the Joe
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Even though Dean Lister has been around for decades, I feel like I’m just now discovering him after watching his new leglock course on Gold BJJ Online. Not only did I love the material in his hour long class, but but the end of it I found myself pulling up
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A Journal from my first visit to Renzo Gracie Academy New York – April 2016 Day 1 – Just Visiting 2016 On my first morning in NYC, I decided to visit Renzo Gracie’s Academy to get an idea of what to expect and plan my training. As I approached 30th
Read moreEoghan O’Flanagan has enjoyed a lot of success over the last few years after taking a double gold at NAGA, winning the Roll Models Sub Only Invitational by beating Ross Nicholls in the final and becoming a Polaris veteran. I was recently fortunate enough to pry Eoghan away from training
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