Attacking the Turtle by Alexandre Penao

Alexandre Penao is a 6th degree Black Belt from Carlson Gracie and one of the most respected BJJ instructors in Brazil. He is currently teaching at Fitplus (Halifax) and doing seminars in Canada (yes, Canada!). I love when they come to Canada instead of the USA

*if anyone know his seminar schedule, let us know.

He is putting online a sequence videos showing attacks from the turtle position. You can check them at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/theferguson

Or at:

Turtle Attacks at bjjwiki

Rickson Gracie FAQ

The guys from Sherdog worked on a very complete FAQ about Rickson Gracie. It has been organized and posted at:

http://bjjwiki.org/Rickson_Gracie

It answers all sort of questions about Rickson, so check it out!

Rickson Gracie Seminar

Everyone is talking about the new “Jiu Jitsu invisible” seminar series from Rickson Gracie. If you can’t attend them, you can at least check out online an old (but in full) seminar that he did a few years ago.

He shows the same concepts and ideas that he does now.

Link: http://bjjwiki.org/index.php/Seminars

From: http://bjjwiki.org

BJJ Community site

I have been very quiet lately, but not because I don’t like you guys. With a few training partners, we decided to create a community site (wiki), where everyone can post information, links, videos, etc.

The goal is the have a free resource for every BJJ practitioner to contribute and learn from it.

For more information, visit: http://www.bjjwiki.org

Hope to see you there!

Minotauro rolling

Good video of Minotauro rolling no-gi with a student.

Renzo Gracie Legacy documentary

Simply amazing this guy history. Enjoy!

2008 Nova Scotia Open BJJ Championship

The maritimes is on fire! Just on the last two months they had 3/4 BJJ tourneys. The next one is the 2008 Nova Scotia Open Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Championship to be held in Truro, NS by Jake Mackenzie.

2008 Nova Scotia Open Brazilian Jiu-jitsu Championship, being held Sunday, November 16th, at MarMac Athletics on Inglis Street, Truro, Nova Scotia. The Cost of registration will be 40 dollars to compete in one division, or 50 to compete in both. There will be beginner, intermediate and advanced divisions, for gi and no gi. If you plan on coming please message me and tell me, what divisions you will be fighting in, we will be taking registration at the door. The weight classes are as follows:

featherweight – 149 and under
lightweight – 150-167.5
middleweight – 167.5-181
middle/heavy – 181-194
heavyweight – 195 and up

For more information, contact Jake ( jake_mackenzie_@hotmail.com )

JJ Machado – 5 favorite submissions

JJ Machado 5 favorite submissions:

BJJ inspirational picture

That’s halloween for the guy on the bottom.

Do I need to say anything else?

Rickson gracie quotes

Rickson Gracie gave an interview to Sultatame (Brazilian magazine) after a seminar and these are some of the more remarkable quotes from it:

About the current BJJ in the world:

“As a teacher I always like to give a full view of jiu jitsu to all my students. From self defense, to competition and no-gi techniques. If you get too focused on a helicopter sweep or on the x-guard and spend years training only that, you will find a lot of trouble without the gi or in an mma fight.”

About food:

“Nutrition is the beginning of our health. We are what we eat.”

About the use of BJJ in MMA:

“Jiu jitsu is MMA. Since the beginning our main concern was always to put jiu jitsu to the test and that’s where mma came from. We were always open to challenge matches, since the time of the capoeira fighters, to boxers, street fighters and now with the MMA/UFC.”

Final message to the readers:

“It is only with a lot of training and dedication that we can achieve something. A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he fall, but how many times he stand up. Always be ready to fight, to win and to forgive when necessary. Good luck and train hard!”