There is no reason to miss Jiu-Jitsu! Even if your gym is closed and you have no partners available to practice, you can still get some work out done by yourself.

In the video below, Black Belt Jason Scully shows us 33 exercises in 7 minutes that can be performed alone and anywhere. It helps improve your movement, agility, coordination, balance, and conditioning.

Learn it here and good training!

Below, prof. Guillermo Gomez  guides you through a stretching workout that will open your hips and that, besides flexibility, it also develops balance, strength and body alignment for martial arts. Check it out:

Marcelo in middleweight final against Lucas Leite at 2011 Worlds / Photo by Ivan Trindade/GRACIEMAG

Every Jiu-Jitsu fighter gets his day of rest, so how about practicing a radical sport on your day off away from the mat? Five-time Jiu-Jitsu world and four-time ADCC champion Marcelo Garcia of team Alliance likes working on his balance on a skateboard. In the following video, the black belt shows off his skills and tries out a few tricks at a skate park in New York.

What about you, is there some radical sport you do along with Jiu-Jitsu? Share it with us.

Can you keep your feet? Be careful not to hurt yourself, and may your training be fruitful.

Roger Gracie pursues the mount and top balance in attacking the neck of Bernardo Faria at the 2009 World Championship. Photo: Regis Chen.

A position of supremacy in Jiu-Jitsu that’s being neglected more and more in MMA these days, the mount is one of those aspects of the game that you can always improve, if you’re an unknown white belt or a renowned master alike.

If you’ve been searching for the right balance to stay on top and finish, it would behoove you to review the following videos, dug up by GRACIEMAG.com to enrich our readers’s Jiu-Jitsu.

After giving them a scan, share any questions or comments you may have with us in the comments section below.

1. The mount that worked for Roger on Rafael Lovato at Pan 2006

2. Rubem Patrick uses lapel to mount and demonstrate attack arsenal

3. Jeremy Patton and the surprise move for mounting and finishing

4. Marcos Schubert teaches how to not lose mount

5. Professor Magoo explains how to get armbar from mount

6. Maurício Fett teaches choke from mount

* Have you found a video about the mount that changed your perception of the move? Share it with us.

Jiu-Jitsu ace Caio "Hell Boy" Magalhães and his MMA belts / Publicity photo

Another thick-skinned black belt from the Brazilian state of Ceará, Caio Magalhães will be making his UFC debut on June 8 against also-first-timer Buddy Roberts, 29, at the UFC on FX 3 show, and he knows just how he wants to put the assortment of Jiu-Jitsu attacks he has at his disposal into practice: landing on top and passing guard. “I’m going to take him down and run him over,” Magalhães told GRACIEMAG.com with confidence.

The best part for GRACIEMAG.com readers is that the UFC newcomer doesn’t hid his game. “To pass guard, the trick is to keep balance and never let your opponent be at ease. You can’t let him feel good; you have to keep the pressure on him,” explained the Brazilian, who was supposed to have faced Fabio Maldonado at UFC Rio, who ended up getting injured shortly before the show.

Originally signed by the UFC to fight at light heavyweight, Caio has now dropped a weight division to fight at middleweight. Now Buddy Roberts holds a record of 11 wins in 13 career fights, while Caio hasn’t lost in his five-fight career.

Both fighters were meant to have debuted in MMA’s most recognized cage, but injuries to their opponent delayed their appearances. “Now everything is going to work out, I’m happy again. I don’t like training myself to death and then not get to fight. These last four months have gone like that; I’ve been training like mad,” he said.

Other bouts set for the same occasion have also-Ceará native Carlos Eduardo “Tá Danado” taking on the USA’s Mike Pierce, the rematch between Demetrious Johnson and Ian McCall, and Dustin Pague facing Jared Papazian. Now Erick Silva will face Charlie Brenneman and Eddie Wineland will square off with Scott Jorgensen, while Bernardo Trekko will be trying for his first win in the UFC when he takes on Henry Martinez.

UFC on FX 3
United States
June 8, 2012

Ian McCall vs Demetrious Johnson
Erick Silva vs Charlie Brenneman
Eddie Wineland vs Scott Jorgensen
Jared Papazian vs Dustin Pague
Josh Neer vs Mike Pyle
Leonard Garcia vs Matt Grice
Mike Pierce vs Carlos Eduardo Rocha
Seth Baczynski vs Lance Benoist
Caio Magalhães vs Buddy Roberts
Bernardo Trekko Magalhães vs Henry Martinez

Kron Gracie against Marcelo Garcia at ADCC 2011 / Photo: John Lamonica/GRACIEMAG

Check out the Planet X Brasil program with Kron Gracie, with the California-based black belt showing how he has fused radical sports with martial arts as a way to work on his balance.

SKATING AND JIU-JITSU

The rules are clear. “The first to set foot on the ground loses,” explains the Gracie.

Now how about you, have you come up with some sort of Jiu-Jitsu-related contest that helps you in training, besides the usual fun in the academy? Share it with us.

As a present to our readers, Rubens sent in a position that is much more useful and effective than any submission out there, since you can use it at any time—and from white belt onward. Ladies and gentlemen, maintaining control over an opponent and making it to side-control Cobrinha style.

The trick is to pull the collar and deftly moving your hip. Check it out, and great training in 2012!