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Important Tips For Half Guard on the Bottom
Don't just hold on. Gone are the days when someone moves into your
half guard and then you try to hold onto them for dear life. The
half guard game is a more active, offensive, and aggressive position
then it once was. So if someone ends...
Author: Jason Scully
Date Posted: July 22, 2008
16 Important
Tips for Closed Guard
These are very important aspects to practice and remember with
the closed guard. These tips are especially helpful with no-gi...
Author: Jason Scully
Date Posted: May 19, 2008
21 Tips
to Improve Your Grappling Game
Have a specific technique or area of focus for each rolling session.
For example, I will come into training thinking "Today I am going
to work on passing the butterfly guard". You may even want to let
your training partners know this and start in those positions...
Author: Jason Scully
Date Posted: May 09, 2008
Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu Technique - The Guard
In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and ground-fighting the most common position
used is the Guard. In this position the opponent is said to be the
guard when one wraps legs around the opponent. This becomes a dominating
position as one is on the back of the opponent. In the guard position
it is easy to apply joint locks and chokes...
Author: Gina Dean
Date Posted: December 27, 2007
Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu Technique - The Arm Bar
In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu techniques, the arm bar is defined as a
technique that isolates and hyper-extends the elbow. This technique
is also known as 'juji gatame', this position is executed by hyper-extending
the elbow and holding the opponent's arm between your legs with
the wrist held close to the chest...
Author: Gina Dean
Date Posted: December 24, 2007
Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu Technique - The Turtle Mount
The turtle mount is also know as rear mount or the back mount -
Top. In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu techniques the turtle mount involves
one to be behind the opponent, with one's legs hooked around them (the
opponent). In this turtle mount position, one has a major advantage
over the opponent...
Author: Gina Dean
Date Posted: December 21, 2007
How
To Improve Your Grappling And Jiu Jitsu Game With The 5 Levels Of
Learning
Almost every Grappler I know is always looking for ways to improve
their game and make their training more effective. I've found that
by breaking down your learning into 5 levels it will enable you
to become a more technical grappler in a shorter amount of time...
Author: Jim Fortunato
Date Posted: November 09, 2007
Brazilian Jujitsu
You should however realize that the Brazilian Jujitsu training
is a slow and gradual process and anyone who wishes to be an expert
on Brazilian Jujitsu has to go through the belt structure and be
able to hurdle very demanding armed as well as unarmed offensive
moves and attacks. Since Brazilian Jujitsu anyone who wants to learn
the martial arts by practicing together, trust should be developed
among the beginners and the teacher. There must also be a friendly
social life in Brazilian Jujitsu clubs...
Author: Maryann Morrison
Date Posted: May 07, 2007
The Character of
Jiu-Jitsu
With the domination of the Mixed Martial Arts world by Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
practitioners, I have noticed many outsiders have the perception
that Jiu-Jitsu is a one dimensional art that teaches “ground fighting”
and is practiced by a group of brutish Neanderthals...
Author: Anthony Butler
Date Posted: February 23, 2007
The History
of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu - Part 3
The Gracie's were not the only ones doing Jiu-Jitsu in the world
during the 1900's, and certainly not the only one's doing Jiu-Jitsu
in Brazil, they were just the most popular...
Author: Gene Simco
Date Posted: July 12, 2006
The History
of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu - Part 2
Eventually, in Japan many different variations of the art (Jiu-Jitsu)
took shape, including Karate, Aikido, and Judo. But these arts were
missing essential pieces of what the complete art of Jiu-Jitsu originally
held. Soon the day of the Samurai...
Author: Gene Simco
Date Posted: July 12, 2006
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