Posted by Mike Calimbas on June 11, 2010
Two-time ADCC World Champion and BJJ World Champion Leozinho Vieira goes through guards like hot knives go through butter. Here are a few techniques from him which you may find useful:
Bonus: Here’s footage of Leozinho training with a prodigy known to have one of the best guards in the sport.
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Posted by Mike Calimbas on May 13, 2010
Never underestimate the importance on controlling your opponent’s hips when passing the guard. Here’s Jean Jacque Machado explaining the finer points of this detail for the no-gi open guard pass.
Check out other JJ Machado links on the right side of the video after the jump for more techniques from the 2001 ADCC champion.
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Posted by Mike Calimbas on May 4, 2010
Student A refers to BJJ as “Jits.” As in, “I’m headed to the gym to practice to go practice my Jits.”
Student B states that no self-respecting gi-wearing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner would ever refer to the sport as “Jits or Jitz.”
We want to ask our readers what they think. Please answer the poll bellow and let us know where you stand on this issue. Thanks guys!
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Posted by Mike Calimbas on April 30, 2010
Pretty cool technique of the day comes from Mike Fowler from Team Lloyd Irvin.
Here is Mike on the finer points of how to execute this open guard sweep:
and here is the sweep when he used it at the 2009 IBJJF Natiionals.
Want to see more dynamic moves from Mike Fowler? Check out this other instruction here.
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Posted by Mike Calimbas on April 8, 2010
Any of our readers using this position to initiate sweeps, submissions? We’d love to here your comments on the finer points of the tornado guard.
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Posted by Kris on January 17, 2010
This is a transition I’ve been experimenting with and have had decent success. It’s a great transition due to it’s unexpected nature. The video is in portuguese so here are some of the points I’ve come to learn.
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