The little training group is coming along well! Last Sunday there were six people there! All of them serious.
Sometimes I get a little self conscious when teaching, especially when I am teaching 90 or 100 kilo guys who are training to be professional fighters, but I have to just get over it and do it. [...]

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What is especially interesting about this interview with Marcelo is the discussion about his new project Marcelo Garcia In Action, which looks pretty impressive so far - especially if you are a fan of Marcelinho’s game, as I am.Another interesting tidbit from the interview is hearing Marcelo say that he tries to set a new [...]

OK, ok okokokok I’ll stop reposting other peoples’ blog wondrousness with this…Liam’s How to Beat the Attributes post struck a nerve for me. How many damn times …– has my kimura sprung open?– has someone neck-flexed out of my ezequiel?– has my triangle turned into a bent line encompassing nothing?Granted– strength makes a difference. [...]

Class #263RGA High Wycombe, (BJJ), Kev Capel, High Wycombe, UK - 24/11/2009Though I’ve made it abundantly clear I hate training takedowns, I was nevertheless interested to see this site. It’s a full judo syllabus up to black belt, as far as I can tell, with elite level judoka Craig Fallon (among others) demonstrating the techniques [...]

Wow, really enjoyed this post on Cane Prevost’s blog The Gentle Art… artfully titled “Standup and Throws- You Suck at Takedowns!”I liked it because he starts with the assumption that there ARE workarounds for people who suck at takedowns (aside from the usual exhortation to “get better at them! practice them!” which sometimes scares me [...]

It’s nice to see some creativity out there in the usually-sad-soggy-mess that is “stuff marketed to fighters.”Scramble Stuff (found here) carries some nice tshirts… BJJ instructional DVDs.. hard-to-find BJJ mags…For example, Slideyfoot did a review of one of the DVDs available through Scramble Stuff, Yukinori Sasa’s Paraestra Guard here on his well-known blog and although [...]

Some days your the windshield, some days your the bug.  Today I was the bug.  When I got home from practice, I watched this very good clip from John Wooden, the successful UCLA basketball coach.  His comments were incredibly helpful in reframing today’s experience in terms of what I’ve learned.After the warmup today, we continued [...]

In drill we focused on securing a number of arm-bars from the guard. However, my main goal Thursday was to work on my butterfly guard  (BFG) passes during the rolling session. I have dabbled at it before but it occurred to me in the last class that it is the guard of choice for a [...]

Last night, I had the pleasure of training with Augusto Ferrari, who dropped by my gym to do a little workshop. He was teaching 90 minutes no-gi and 90 minutes gi.I really enjoyed the training and liked his game a lot. He was all about base and pressure. I especially liked his guardpassing game which [...]

On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with one of the most interesting mixed martial arts fighters in the world, Roxanne Modafferi.

Born in Delaware and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a major in Japanese language and literature and a minor in linguistics, Roxanne Modafferi now lives in [...]

NOVEMBER(28-29) Tokyo International Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship (JP)*info: HERE(28) AOW 15 (CH) *info: HERE DECEMBER(6) Hong Kong Intra-Club BJJ Competition (HK)*info: HERE(6) Chico Mendes Seminar (SG)*info: HERE(12) Roger Huerta Seminar (TH)*info: HERE(24) Chad Reiner Seminar (TH)*info: HERE(26) AOW 16 *info: HEREJANUARY (2010)(16-17) 2009 Philippine BJJ Gi & NO Gi International Open (PH)*info: HERE*this event was postpone from [...]

The Roger Huerta seminar at Tiger Muay Thai has moved to December 12, 2009 @ noon. This seminar is free for all to attend.ROGER HUERTA SEMINAR

Thinking about this line from this post from a couple of months ago.The only downside is that you can get too much of a good thing very quickly. There are two sessions per day at the academy, then you get three small-group sessions per week on top of that. And you can get extra private [...]

A bit late on this one but earlier this month the Fightworks Podcast aired their interview with Team Grips head instructor, Silvio Braga. The interview was recorded at Art of War this past Summer. Check it out if you haven’t already. -Luke WWW.THEFIGHTWORKSPODCAST.COM

ATM (”Always Train Mondays”) is based on the theory that the first day of training for the week is about getting the weekend rust out. In that way, today’s training more or less accomplished the mission. There are days when I feel like I’m the worst purple belt in Washington (and even if [...]

I left Toronto yesterday after a fantastic stay. Alaina had invited me to come back to MECCA to help with Carlson Gracie team training; Mark Stables, the black belt who runs MECCA, has his lineage under Marcus Soares, who is a black belt under Carlson, Sr. So it was all in the family. She also [...]

So, first, Bullshido published the investigative report on Larry Sanders, which I contributed to… and he’s now invited to respond. You can see the report here. Cool!Second, I’m off to Houston at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning for work, to attend a brief hearing in court, but should be back in [...]

The moving truck arrived at my Philadelphia home Saturday morning, and I was flying down to Atlanta on Sunday.   I’ve trained at Unit 2 in Atlanta when I’m in town, so I knew this was the gym I wanted to join.  The instruction is great, it’s a mile from my home, and a quarter [...]

It truly is difficult to be technical when you are tired. There are moments I get swept because I am so heavy on one side, and the reason I am leaning is why every tired person leans, I am resting. Not very technical. Another thing is missed opportunities. Like when I have a leg lock [...]

Short Review: Yukinori Sasa takes you through a range of guard positions, including his own unique approach, which he calls ’spiral guard’. The instruction is clear and methodical, combining a beautifully presented book with video footage: any issues I had understanding the book were resolved when cross-checking the accompanying two hour long DVD.Even though this [...]

Knee on belly (solid hip connection the whole way) to baseball bat choke (wedge elbow inside thigh) to popover choke to armbar…Chew on that a while!

Well, Justin and I have done this bottom side control for three weeks, and as much as I don’t think I’ve got it perfect, I think that we definitely got some good results, and it’s time to move on so I can get at least a LITTLE technique before Pan Ams. Interestingly, we didn’t [...]

Check out the nifty takedown by red around :50…. well, her footsweep at :10 ain’t bad either…Thanks to AthenaMedusa.com for finding this…

Here are some pics of the recent seminar at VPF with Durinho of Atos Jiu-Jitsu. We’ll be getting more from VPF and Mendes brother’s recent seminar. -Luke

The British International School ,shanghai .At Nov.10th have do the Judo championships, Shanghai Wrestling Judo association invite JJFC-Alavanca Jiujitsu Academy do the Jiutsu demon stration for all kids and vistor.Chico Mendes SeminarBJJ demo at Chinese elementary school