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The top 10 books every BJJ grappler should own

February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 Ben Coate

These are Grappling Insider’s recommendations for the top 10 best books on the market for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) grappler. Avid BJJ practitioners know that learning the art doesn’t stop when class is over. Quite the opposite, most grapplers love to consume BJJ content outside of the gym – whether

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Renzo Gracie Promoted to Coral Belt by Rickson Gracie

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Lucy Wynne

Only a select few of black belts (around 40) will ever have the honor of reaching the rank of Coral Belt. After a lifetime of training Jiu-Jitsu (50+ years), the Grandson of the inventors of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Renzo Gracie, has joined the group. The Coral Belt is a 7th

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Robert Degle Promoted to Black Belt and Immediately Suspended by the IBJJF

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Ben Coate

It’s been a whirlwind few days for prolific no-gi competitor Robert Degle. On Tuesday, Degle was awarded his black belt in jiu-jitsu from Renzo Gracie black belt Brandon Bennett. Also a student under John Danaher, the leg lock specialist started competing in IBJJF tournaments earlier this year when the organization

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Flashback: Kazushi Sakuraba Repeats History Against Renzo Gracie

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 Alex Lindsey

Kazushi Sakuraba and Renzo Gracie faced off all the way back in 2000 at Pride 10: Return Of The Warriors and the pair gave us a vital piece of MMA history. It was just unusual that this piece of history was actually a repeat of something that happened nearly fifty

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BJJ Fanatics Offers Free Tom DeBlass Instructional For Today Only

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Lucy Wynne

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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Renzo Gracie And John Danaher Release Free Instructionals For Those Whose Gyms Have Closed

March 16, 2020July 9, 2020 Alex Lindsey

Renzo Gracie and John Danaher have now followed the example set the other day by Bernardo Faria, in giving away free instructionals to the BJJ community in order to help those who find their gyms closed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. The first was Danaher, who revealed that

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Gordon Ryan Fan Quits Job To Attend Seminar

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 admin

Gordon Ryan had an impromptu seminar announced at Renzo Gracie Houston and one particular fan decided nothing was going to stop him attending and learning from the best. Stephen Penilla was told by his boss that he would not be able to get the day off work on short notice

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Garry Tonon Calls For ONE FC Title Shot

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Alex Lindsey

Garry Tonon has had a perfect start to his fledgling MMA career by winning all five of his fights so far. With an undefeated record for ONE FC and all five of his fights ending in a finish, Tonon believes it’s finally time for him to get the chance to

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John Danaher Picks The Best Open Guard

January 6, 2020February 9, 2020 Alex Lindsey

John Danaher took to social media to reveal what he thinks is the best option for people starting to play with open guard. In typical Danaher fashion, he went into great detail on the reasons why so many new grapplers struggle with playing open guard to begin with and more

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John Danaher Gives His Thoughts On Belt Promotion

December 14, 2019December 14, 2019 Alex Lindsey

Quite recently, Firas Zahabi went on the Joe Rogan Experience and at one point, he talked about John Danaher and his comparatively high standards for belt promotion. This is something that is relatively common knowledge as Nick Rodriguez had a breakout silver medal ADCC performance before even being awarded his

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