August2016

Xande Ribeiro and Rafael Lovato Jr. dominated the master 1 division at the Worlds Masters, this past weekend. Lovato won the superheavy division and the two closed out the open class. We take the opportunity to highlight the two teaching attacks using the hand in the collar from the...

You can already reserve the dates in your calendar. The 2017 Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship has its dates set by the UAEJJF. The event takes place once again in the IPIC Arena, on April 18-22. The 2017 edition is going to be the ninth edition of the...

Demian Maia put another awesome performance this past Saturday, with a first round finish over Carlos Condit. With the result, Maia will most probably be fighting for the UFC welterweight belt the next time he steps in the octagon. Every Jiu-Jitsu practitioner can learn from what the Brazilian black belt...

Gracie Barra’s Flavio Almeida was one of the standouts of the recent Worlds Masters, in Las Vegas. With a powerful performance, he won both the heavyweight division and the open class in the master 2 age class. We take the opportunity to make it easier for you to learn...

Saulo Ribeiro had to go through some real pain and suffering to achieve his 5th world title in the master division. This Friday, he suffered a serious injury to his left arm during the division semifinal. Saulo powered through the match and somehow gathered strength to also win the final...

It’s now or never. The final deadline to register for the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Jiu-Jitsu World Tour Los Angeles is August 30, at 11:59PM (LA Time). Sign up now for a chance to compete for your share of over $100,000 in prizes. The event goes down September 3-4,...

The 2016 Worlds Masters is in the books. Over 3,600 athletes over 30 years of age gave all they got in three days of awesome thrills in Las Vegas. In the end, one team claimed both the feamel and male divisions trophies. Team Carlson Gracie fulfilled the promise made...

Day 2 of the 2016 Worlds Masters had its high point with the black belt divisions from master 3 to master 6, for men and women. Now five times master world champion Saulo Ribeiro experienced a great deal of drama to reach his fifth gold medal. During the heavyweight...

Day 1 of the 2016 Worlds Masters was a 12-hour journey of great Jiu-Jitsu and unbelievable thrills. The black belts fought in the master 1 and 2 divisions, featurins some of the biggest names of the weekend. Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu’s Rafael Lovato Jr. stood out in the master 1 division....