It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that passing guard is one of the most difficult elements of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Exacerbating this difficulty is the sheer number of countless guard variations that your opponent can play against you. Another difficulty you face with guard passes is that everyone
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Seventeen-year old Mica Galvao has one of the brightest futures in all of jiu-jitsu. Barely old enough to drive a car and still in his first year as a black belt, Galvao has made his mark on the competitive scene this year with victories over elite opponents like Oliver Taza,
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Roger Gracie is widely considered the best jiu-jitsu player of all time — an opinion that’s even held by Gordon Ryan’s coach, John Danaher. So when he speaks, we listen. On a recent episode of the BJJ Fanatics podcast, Gracie touched on a number of technical topics ranging from the
Read moreXande Ribeiro is well known in the BJJ community, not only for being one half of the Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu Association along with his 6th degree black belt brother and author of Jiu-Jitsu University, Saulo Ribeiro, but also for having what might be the single most unpassable guard in the history
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