The mount is a super powerful position in BJJ for many reasons, such as: the variety of submissions available, the control you have, and the difficulty that comes with trying to escape a high mount – to name a few. When you think about it, the mount position is essentially
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Escaping side control is rarely easy. In most cases, the grappler escaping side control is happy with simply escaping back to guard. But what if the side control escape leads directly into a submission for the bottom player? That’s even better. Check out the video below from black belts Stephan
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As all jiu-jitsu practitioners know, the devil is in the details. Take, for example, a basic armbar. The technique could be applied 90% perfectly, but if one minor finishing detail is off, the entire technique is off. In a recent video, jiu-jitsu legend Braulio Estima addresses one key “invisible” concept
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Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza suffered his fourth consecutive loss at the hands of Andre Muniz on Saturday night at UFC 252. A fellow grappler, Muniz found his way to Jacare’s back with just over a minute remaining in the first round. As Muniz fell off Souza’s back he
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Gordon Ryan has been nothing short of dominant in competition over the past few years. That was certainly the case when he squared off with Roberto Jimenez at Who’s Number One in February. Minutes before the match, Ryan posted to Instagram that he would finish Jimenez with a mounted armbar,
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Mackenzie Dern extended her win streak to four fights when she submitted Nina Nunes in the first round at UFC Vegas 23. Nunes was Dern’s highest-ranked UFC opponent to-date, positioning Dern for a high-leverage fight in her next outing. The submission came in the final seconds of the first round.
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We are truly in the golden age of jiu-jitsu knowledge. Between YouTube, Instagram, podcasts and more, no technique is a secret and it’s easy to learn from the best grapplers in the world. Jiu-jitsu legend Andre Galvao is continuing that tradition. In a recent video from the Team Atos headquarters,
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In jiu-jitsu, the fundamental techniques are almost always the most effective. For that reason, grapplers can never stop improving on their fundamentals. In a recent video, former UFC title challenger Kenny Florian shares the finer points of the perfect fundamental armbar from guard. Florian says that the perfect armbar starts
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UFC 246 was all about the Conor McGregor hype machine and what Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone would be able to do to him, if anything. But one man snuck under the radar coming into this event, despite having an incredible record of 57-13-1 (6-4 UFC). That man was the Boa Constrictor,
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