Ryan Hall is in Crystal Lake, IL this week to help MMA superstar Jeff “The Big Frog” Curran as he prepares to take on dangerous Japanese fighter, Tomohiko Hori, in XFO 34.
Coming off of a first round TKO of Dustin Neace at Strikeforce only 2 weeks ago, Jeff is looking to notch another victory and [...]
FORT BENNING, Ga. — The U.S. Army Combatives School has adopted a new teaching plan.
The Army is revamping the curriculum to take lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan and build more effective close-quarters fighters, said Matt Larsen, the school’s director. The goal is to push advanced techniques down to the small-unit level, including basic training.
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Update from Spain: A wild turn of events ends with Ryan Hall taking the bronze medal at the Abu Dhabi Submission Wrestling World Championship!
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Barcelona, Spain
9/27/09
After winning the ADCC West Coast qualifier in Carson, CA earlier this year, Ryan was invited to compete in the most prestigious no-gi grappling tournament in the [...]
The 50/50 Controversy
by Ryan Hall
As many of you are aware, 50/50 guard has come under fire recently from many in the Jiu-Jitsu community, in large part for its use in the Pan and Mundial tournaments as an attempted strategy to dethrone 4-time consecutive featherweight champion Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles. It has been hotly discussed and has [...]
World Martial Arts once again delivers the goods with the most highly anticipated DVD series in years, the 50/50 guard with Ryan Hall! This new guard position is so effective and dangerous to its unsuspecting opponent’s, that many competitions are now considering banning it all together!
Ryan Hall, one of the most active and successful Jiu-Jitsu [...]
The Fightworks Podcast is the largest and most popular online Jiu-Jitsu radio show and this week Caleb and Dan (the hosts) came to the source to get some information on one of the most talked about positions in modern BJJ: the 50/50.
The Episode from 8/16/09
Robert Drysdale describes his preparation for his ADCC superfight against defending [...]
Balance/Hasset Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Rick Macauley, took a break from teaching at his new academy (East Coast MMA) to stop by Fifty/50 to train for the weekend in preparation for Abu Dhabi later this year. Rick is a 2-time ADCC veteran and one of the most accomplished professional no-gi competitors in the United States. [...]
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I want to extend a huge “thank you” to Paul Schreiner and Garth Taylor for having me out to Santa Cruz to train for the week prior to the ADCC Trials. The opportunity to work with and learn from them again was an awesome experience that I feel made a really positive impact on [...]
he women’s locker room at the Sport and Health© in Ballston Common Mall (Arlington, VA) this Sunday afternoon was as crowded as after work on a Monday evening. But instead of pulling running shoes out of their gym bags, these women pulled out Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gis!
