Craig Jones Kills Promotion, Launches Resort Camp
Craig Jones had a problem: running a jiu-jitsu promotion is hard. You need consistent athlete availability.
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BJJ News — industry
Why Grappling Fans Aren't Actually Watching Events
There's a specific moment of clarity that hits when your favorite grappling platform announces a paywall. It's not the moment you decide whether to pay.
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ADCC's Ticket Math: 'On Track' Doesn't Mean Selling Out
When a major grappling organization gets on the mic six days before its flagship event and boasts about selling exactly four tickets per day, you know the conversation has shifted from "come watch this" to "please, anyone, come watch this." ADCC's recent announcement: they're "exactly on track" with
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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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FloGrappling GM: CJI Was 'A Hugely Painful Time' — And the Pay Ratchet It Set Has Permanently Changed Grappling Economics
When Ben Kovacs, FloGrappling's general manager and founder of the Guardian Jiu-Jitsu Foundation, sat down on the Jits and Giggles podcast, he didn't mince words. The 2024 Craig Jones Invitational was "a hugely painful time." Not just for Craig.
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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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Rear Naked Choke Manslaughter: Perth Case
On the morning of July 13, 2026, Christian Jack Joseph appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on a manslaughter charge after a street altercation in Fremantle that left a 63-year-old man dead. Joseph, a 26-year-old junior doctor at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and a BJJ blue belt, had allegedly held a
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Why BJJ Gyms Cap Membership at 125 Members
There's a number that haunts BJJ gym owners: 125 members. Around 125 to 150 active members, a gym owner hits an invisible wall.
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