Tom DeBlass is confident in his students, to say the least. Over the past few weeks, DeBlass has watched as Dale Brown, the founder of Detroit Urban Survival Training (D.U.S.T.), has become a viral sensation for his self-defense videos that claim to “increase your survivability.” Within the grappling community, Brown
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Dale Brown, the founder of the Detroit Urban Survival Training (D.U.S.T.) academy has garnered plenty of notoriety in the martial arts community for his viral self-defense videos. In the jiu-jitsu and submission grappling community, he has become a punchline, as most grapplers with any serious experience can see that many
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BJJ Legend Tom Deblass has invited the security guard from the Dillon Danis incident to train with him for free for the next year. Why Did Dillon Danis End Up Getting Choked? Last week, social media was dominated with a video showing former BJJ World Champion Dillon Danis being RNC’d
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Tom DeBlass is one of the most well-known names in jiu-jitsu. And although he owns an impressive competitive career including a black belt no-gi Masters world championship, a no-gi Pans championship, and a successful MMA career with fights in the UFC, DeBlass is quick to point out that his continued
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ADCC veteran and highly respected jiu-jitsu coach Tom DeBlass has released a video showing his favorite variations of plyometric pushups. Known for his strength and power in addition to his elite grappling skill, DeBlass has long been a proponent of pushups and pushup variations to improve grappling strength. In the
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Chad Kodiak Fields defeated Tom DeBlass tonight (Nov 14th) at Fight 2 Win in Philadelphia. He earned a unanimous decision win over DeBlass in an eight minute match that had no near submissions, but earned him the super heavyweight championship. In the co-main event, Vagner Rocha defeated Gabriel Almeida via
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Tom DeBlass has officially signed a deal with a publisher, DartFrog Blue, in order to produce an autobiography that is set to be released for the fall of 2020. The timing of the release is set very deliberately, as it is due to line up with Tom DeBlass’ return to
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Tom DeBlass has recently revealed that he will be making a return to professional MMA after signing a contract with ONE FC, the same promotion that his long-time student and training partner Garry Tonon may be World Champion of relatively soon. DeBlass said himself that he’s always had a great
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Gordon Ryan managed to get some time with Tom DeBlass on the latest episode of his podcast, The King Ryan Show, and some of the stories that the pair shared were fantastic. In the first episode of the podcast Ryan sat down for a few hours with one of the
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BJJ Legend and owner of BJJ Fanatics, Bernardo Faria has recently offered a free code to download one of his instructional DVDs, to help those wanting to train at home and Tom DeBlass has now joined him as well. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, it has made it extremely difficult
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