Rio Open BJJ | Womens Champion learns a harsh lesson I had to post about the recent match between members of the powerhouse Gracie Humaita womens bjj team. Last week you had two champions square off with Mcenzie Dern(currently focusing on mma) stepping up to compete at the rio open vs Current GI Champion Bia …
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A big part of what makes our Mississauga martial arts academy the place that it is lies in the fact it’s not just about numbers. Sure having the area’s fastest growing member base is nice but most importantly we’ve always had a clear vision of the direction the academy would grow towards in terms of …
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2017’s Biggest BJJ Superfight on the way The world wide growth of BJJ has been nothing short of phenomenal over the past 10 years and the recent shift towards professional event with athletes actually being paid a decent sum for their grappling efforts is a great change. Heading the pack were Metamoris and ebi but …
Every Anderson Silva fight for me is a special event!!!! He is in my opinion too old to take out the elite compeition at the weight class but still a serious danger for anyone with out clean hands and ready to mix it up a bit before shooting for takedowns. No he isnt going to …
Eduardo Telles BJJ’s master of Back position There is no understating the level of defensive mastery possessed by Eduardo Telles when dealing with conventional BJJ back attack’s. Coming from a more fight based application of the art I can appreciate the need to be good turning to the knees and scrambling from there but, most …
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www.bjjee.com had a very interesting article up recently covering the reported earnings of some of the pro BJJ competitors for the calendar year 2016. The numbers were quite revealing as it lays out a pretty clear reason why so much of the top flight BJJ talent has stopped crossing over into MMA. Aside from the …
Lessons learned from the 20k BJJ Challenge at Studio 540 After all the talk hype and build up we ended up having some great matches Studio 540 last weekend. The main event and one we are focussing on here had Felipe pena vs Gordon Ryan with Pena putting a decisive end to all the talk …
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Bjj Mississauga | Marcos Barbosa – One competitor that changed the game Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Rickson Gracie > Marcelo Behring > Waldomiro Perez > Roberto Godoi > Marco Barbosa Ok so I’ve been a legit fanatic of the Bjj / Grappling arts for going on 20 years now. …
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The Core BJJ & Grappling classes runs on laid out curriculum on a week to week basis having what I like to call “flexible thinking” comes in handy. This week while covering some more in-depth knee cutting style guard passes When it really dawned on me we hadn’t touched on one of the arts strongest fundamental …
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Congrats to the team that went down to NYC for the IBJJF summer open. Competition is far from the the focus in more peoples Jiu-Jitsu training but it is a great way to gain experience and test your skills vs another trained opponent. That being said a few die hard members of the small but …