$972 ADCC Mat-Side Tickets Are Wrecking Marriages
Blue belt, maybe purple. Makes decent money—$60K, $80K, whatever.
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BJJ News — gym culture
When a Blue Belt Tries Whiteboard Teaching for Jiu-Jitsu
Paul Wentworth, 44, has trained jiu-jitsu for eleven years across three separate periods—started, quit, came back, quit, came back again. On Tuesday evening, he brought a whiteboard to his rolling class.
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Islam Makhachev Holds Two Belts, Tests Gym-Loyalty Code
Islam Makhachev pulled out the gym-loyalty card on Mighty Cast with conviction that sounds unshakeable in the moment and complicated in practice. The principle: teammates who train together for years should not compete against each other.
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Craig Jones Investigates Melqui Galvao Allegations
Craig Jones isn't a documentarian. He's not a journalist.
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When Elisabeth Clay's Leg Lock Broke Danilo's Knee
Danilo Moreira has rolled with world-class grapplers across two continents, competed at elite levels in both gi and no-gi, and built a legitimate career as a professional grappler. He also, at various points, refused to tap to his wife while she was literally breaking his body.
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Matt Serra and Mikey Musumeci Said Ecological BJJ Is Just Reinventing the Wheel — 'Don't Make Jiu-Jitsu Only for the Intellectuals'
On an episode of the Overdogs BJJ podcast, Matt Serra and Mikey Musumeci put a name to something every gym has argued about in the locker room after class: the tension between time-tested drilling and newer, "ecological" approaches to jiu-jitsu instruction. For those not deep in the coaching literat
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Jonah Hill Says His Jiu-Jitsu Would Annihilate Three Comedians. Cub Swanson Made Him an Offer.
Actor Jonah Hill confidently declared on a recent podcast that his Brazilian jiu-jitsu training would, in his own words, "fing annihilate" three famous podcast hosts—Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. Hill, 42, has been training seriously under black belt instructor Josh Griffiths and is wo
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Match Footage Lies: Why Every Grappler Rewrites Their Loss
Hell, you might be the guy. He competed last weekend.
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