The former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, Georges St-Pierre, has now declared that his free agency is official… After his legal team terminated his ZUFFA contract. You know what this means… “Rush” is going to have to try and look elsewhere for him to have his next mixed martial arts (MMA) fight. “I got angry and […]
Conor McGregor‘s coach John Kavanagh revealed he once “beat the s**t” out of the Irish UFC superstar years before they became a world championship-winning team. Speaking to the Irish Independent, Kavanagh relayed the story where the red mist descended when McGregor dropped Irish women’s strawweight Aisling Daly during a light sparring session during one of his […]
Recently AJ Agazarm and Vagner Rocha fought at Fight To Win Pro (FTW) 14… And BOY, was it electric! The match starts off with Vagner going for a collar grip, missing, and clipping AJ in the face… AJ, who then wanted a restart, turns his back to his opponent and begins walking away… And Vagner Rocha then “sparta […]
Here it is! It’s happening. Finally! Conor McGregor, the featherweight champion is now scheduled to fight at 155 pounds against his rival, Eddie Alvarez… For the Lightweight title… And it’s on the most stacked pay-per-view (PPV) card of the year, UFC 205, which takes place inside Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y., on Nov. 12, […]
Well, Stephen Thompson just got his big wish… He has finally been booked to face the division’s champ, Tyron Woodley at UFC 205 on Nov. 12, 2016 in New York. Full details can be found here. But Woodley says that he thinks Thompson may have gone just a slight bit overboard with his large efforts to try and make him (Woodley) look […]
Tapping in training is important. No one should be hesitant to tap in training. Not every exercise needs to be a struggle for victory and if you’re spending your energy on trying to win instead of trying to learn then you need to step back and reexamine your approach to training. When your partner taps […]
Why is jiu jitsu so hard? Here is what I think makes the art so difficult (and incredibly fun) (or better yet Challenging). Real feedback every night. Every class is typically ended with a live rolling session. This is usually several rounds of grappling with various opponents including everyone from the lowest white belt to blacks belts. If […]
“There is no secret to building yourself into a good competitor or practitioner of jiu-jitsu. It comes down to will to achieve and the drive that goes hand in hand with that will. Good work ethic is essential, as the more effort put forth into jiu-jitsu the more it gives back. Build a good core […]
So, for judo in BJJ, there are some throws that may or may not “work/transfer over”… Sumi gaeshi being probably the closest possible thing to a “perfect” throw for Jiu Jitsu. Given the sometimes overly defensive BJJ posture of bent at the waist, that is used by some BJJ practitioners… This throw is sometimes quite easy to […]
O-Soto-Gari. It’s different if you have perfect circumstances with momentum and positioning to effortlessly perform a hip throw or different sweep, but all else being equal, I’d say O-Soto-Gari. O-Soto-Gari (“Large Outer Reaping”) gives you maximum leverage and allows an easy synergy between upper and lower body, coordinating all your strength without requiring perfect timing, […]
