Real-World Grappling: Brown Belt at Tesco Supermarket
Every jiu-jitsu gym has the conversation. It happens during water breaks, after rolling, on the drive home.
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BJJ News — gym culture
The Purple Belt's ADCC Paradox: Analysis Without Stakes
Every Monday at 7 p.m., before the hard rolls start, there's a purple belt at your gym who's just finished his second detailed breakdown of why ADCC 2028 will be "radically different" from 2026. He has fourteen specific points.
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Jonah Hill Nails It: The Celebrity Curse in Your Gym
"Everyone wants the story of — I choked out Jonah Hill."
That's what actor and BJJ practitioner Jonah Hill said in a recent interview, and if you've trained long enough, you already know exactly what he means. Not because you've choked out a celebrity — most of us haven't.
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Purple Belt ADCC Planning: The Gym's Most Predictable Cycle
Every grappling gym has one. A purple belt catches you between rolls and leans against the cage: 'Bro, I'm thinking ADCC 2028.
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Gracie University Training Works: Purple Belt Beats Brown
When brown belt Clarence questioned Gracie University's online curriculum, he didn't expect anyone to show up. But Rener Gracie sees opportunity in noise.
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Murilo Bustamante Earns Coral Belt: 50-Year Legacy at 60
Murilo Bustamante put on a coral belt on August 3rd, 2026, and that sentence carries more weight than most people who don't train will ever understand. Coral belt—8th-degree black—isn't a promotion you campaign for or market yourself into.
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Craig Jones's B-Team Resort Play Is Exactly Where Elite Grappling Was Always Heading
Craig Jones gave the first official tour of B-Team Jiu-Jitsu's new Zamaya Resort property in Tulum, Mexico, on September 17, and somewhere in a garage in Des Moines a guy named Todd just realized his entire business model has been wrong for twelve years. It's not even technically a training camp in
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Craig Jones vs Gordon Ryan: Pre-ADCC Camp Rivalry
Actually, it's worse than that. Jones didn't cancel—he's accelerating a September camp in Mexico because Gordon Ryan's running a closed-door session in Budapest three days before ADCC.
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