Today is a sad day for those anticipating a showdown between Felipe Pena and Kaynan Duarte at BJJ Stars 3. The card will still be going down on July 25th, but with a different main event, as Preguiça has pulled out due to injury. Felipe took to instagram today and
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Us grapplers are incredibly stubborn when it comes to injuries, not much can keep us off the mats! Only AFTER the injury has occurred, will we realise what we could have done to avoid getting hurt. Being conscious of our own safety, and the safety of our rolling partners is
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Dillon Danis has just revealed on Instagram that he has come out the other side of an incredibly lengthy session of reconstructive surgery on his knee. Surprisingly, this has come after he has only recently been seen on crutches after surgery on his right knee to repair a damage to
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The IBJJF is undoubtedly the biggest BJJ organisation on the planet and despite many promotions putting on “World Championships”, the IBJJF World Championships are widely regarded as the truest form of that phrase. It’s strange then, that the IBJJF flatly outlaws reaping the knee at all belt levels. The IBJJF
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The process of ‘warming up’ before sports has pretty much been accepted (excluding those who turn up late to skip it). However, for some reason, within grappling sports the norm has become 5 minute flow roll followed by a static stretch. At its basic form, a warm up should be
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is fast becoming a popular sports among kids around the world, but a recent study cautions against kids focusing on just one sport too early in their development. Brian M. Cash, MD from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles recently
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John Danaher speaks out about professionalism in a crisis in a recent Instagram post. In it, he explains that “there is always a chance in competition that something completely unexpected and detrimental can happen to you mid-match”. He goes on to explain exactly what happened when Gordon Ryan returned to
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