BJJ Online Summit Offers Unique Opportunity to Learn While in Quarantine

The BJJ Online Summit, an 8 day online grappling conference, has been announced for the week of 4/21. As far as we can tell, this is the first ever event of its kind.

Undoubtedly, most grapplers are struggling with the pandemic’s effects on their training. Maybe they have tried some solo drilling, built a grappling dummy, or completed some bodyweight exercises. Now they can sign up for the BJJ Online Summit.

The BJJ Online Summit has secured some well known conceptual minds in BJJ, including Rob Biernacki, Jon Thomas, Rory Van Vleet, and the Kwan brothers of BJJ Mental Models. Registration is free, and videos will be recorded if you can’t make the broadcast time.

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We’re proud to announce BJJ Mental Models will be presenting at the BJJ Online Summit! It’s a free 8-day online conference featuring some of the BJJ community’s most prominent thinkers, such as Jon Thomas and Rob Biernacki. It begins on April 21. Sign up for free at: http://www.bjjonlinesummit.com/

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Subjects will be highly relevant toward the current COVID-19 pandemic with virtually all grapplers lacking a place to train. The topics will cover how to return from a layoff, how to structure classes during COVID-19, and how to make the best use of your time in quarantine.

There will also be courses on nutrition, takedowns, gameplan building, and more.

The event has been organized by BJJ Motivation.

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Yesterday I finished working on a 33 minute video for an upcoming BJJ Online Summit. It's a longer video packed full of information on how to choose and develop multiple guards and submissions. It's important you don't end up like @calmcd0nald, who only had a deep half guard for years. I'll give more details as the summit gets closer. #bjjonlinesummit #development #guard #submission #grappling #gi #nogi

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Full list of speakers:

• Rob Biernacki of BJJConcepts.net – also well-known from his instructional videos with Stephan Kesting
• Gustavo Gasperin of MMA Leech, a Fabricio Werdum black belt who is also a 3-time Masters Champion.
• Rory van Vliet of the RVV BJJ Youtube Channel
• Caleb McAllister, a pro grappler and MMA fighter
• Matt D’Aquino of Beyond Grappling, a Judo Olympian
• Steve Kwan and Matt Kwan of BJJ Mental Models
• Jon Thomas, IBJJF World Champion, known for his excellent online content.
• Read Reale of Combat Sports Nutrition, a sports dietitian

You can sign up for the event here.