During Christmas in Rio de Janeiro: Jiu-Jitsu, Presents and Solidarity
Jiu-Jitsu black belts André Terêncio and Hannette Staack are the leaders of team Brazil o21 and GMAs of ours in Chicago, USA. Being the good…
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In Brazil, Jiu-Jitsu against bullying joins school curriculum
Ronaldo Aoqui, a Jiu-Jitsu black belt who teaches at Gracie Humaitá academy in the Northeastern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, wrote in to…
Sul Jiu-Jitsu academy focusing on young Jiu-Jitsu talent
Jiu-Jitsu oriented towards children has become the main focus at big academies. Besides providing a great number of benefits for kids and teenagers, through these…
More twins with a future in Jiu-Jitsu
Practicing Jiu-Jitsu with a brother or close relative is a surefire formula for success in the art. Ask the twins Rodrigo and Rogério Nogueira or…
Dana White’s favorite 9-year-old fighter has something to teach about Jiu-Jitsu
A young ace under UFC star Alan Belcher and black belt Daniel Moraes’s tutelage, Quinten “Fast Hands” Logan is just nine years old, but has…
5 tips for bringing up a healthy child in Jiu-Jitsu
One of the pillars of the Jiu-Jitsu lifestyle is family. Only with healthy kids and proud parents can we have the peace of mind and…
Watch Clayton & Bochecha and 4 more father-son BJJ sessions
To the GRACIEMAG.com team, Jiu-Jitsu is the perfect martial art for a father to pass on to his son. To defend this thesis, last May…
The film Bully proves the USA has a problem. And Jiu-Jitsu may be the solution
If schoolyard bullying is a disease, cinema may be the cure. That's the idea behind film director Lee Hirsh's latest work, Bully, in the US…
Jiu-Jitsu from father to son
This Friday, already warming up the engines for the weekend, GRACIEMAG.com dug through the YouTube treasure chest and unearthed some of our favorite videos of…
What can you learn from an 8-year-old Jiu-Jitsu fighter?
If you want to have quick-on-the trigger, free-flowing Jiu-Jitsu, you'd better gain confidence in performing positions and invest energy in repetitions. In the video below,…
Donate a Jiu-Jitsu gi and help change children’s lives in Rio
Teachers at Brazil 021, a GMA academy, André “Negão” Terêncio and Hannette Staack put together a mini documentary on the team's endeavors to help needy…
To Kyra Gracie, what in Jiu-Jitsu is worth more than medals?
Kyra Gracie, 26, took up another mission as a Jiu-Jitsu black belt. To repay Jiu-Jitsu for all it has done for her, the Gracie wants…