In February 2009 GRACIEMAG published the cover story below, unraveling the most important aspects of this position so essential in the rings and on the mat. Check it out, read it and subscribe to GRACIEMAG for more articles like this one, ones that will take your Jiu-Jitsu, and your reading, to a whole new level.

Rilion teaching the guard to students in Miami. Photo: Ray Santana.

Yes, you don’t remember it, but you were born playing guard. If you stopped practicing it for awhile that’s your doing. After all, the position, Jiu-Jitsu fighters’ eternal savior in the ring, has been around for ages. Years. Centuries.

Anyone to peer at the oil-painting masterpiece “Fight at the Cock Inn,” by Francisco Goya, can observe the following scene: a bar fight, Spaniards beating each other with clubs all over the place. At center canvas, a guy seems to have a superior position… passing the guard! Well, you may need a little imagination to see that.

But creativity has always been linked to the guard. In an obscure book, found on the shelves of scholarly Gracie Barra professor Márcio Feitosa, one can read a theory according to which African pigmies, in hand-to-hand combat, valued a technique of maintaining their legs between their ferocious aggressors and their noses. Flailing legs, therefore, have always been one’s salvation.

Goya's 1777 painting is on exhibit at Madrid's Prado Museum.

It was Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, though, that further explored and valued the guard, as an art of defense on the ground and one to even out the weight difference between the aggressor and the aggressed upon. More than judo, sambo or any other art.

But, what about the Japanese? Weren’t they the ones to create the technique? Aren’t there schools that prioritize grappling in judo, the thing they call newaza? Yes, it’s true. So then, we’ll ask a specialist like Carioca Flávio Canto, owner of the most attacking ground game in world judo, his view on the question.

“I think Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is exceptional. Its great contribution to world newaza, and to the guard game, was to align a great number of practitioners with Brazilian creativity. From there the whole array of positions and unprecedented situations, today a mainstay, came to be,” says the Athens-2004 Olympic medalist. “The spider-guard, for example, I’d never seen before anywhere, it’s a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu thing. Another positive aspect of the art is to land playing guard and always facing your adversary, after all no one has eyes in the back of their head. That’s the reflex missing for a lot of judokas and wrestlers.”

Stone by stone, the ramparts

When he entered port in Brazil in the 20th century, Japanese master Count Koma didn’t just bring with him an effective leg game, steadfastly learned by Carlos Gracie. He also taught oriental lessons of discipline, health and honor that abide in the family’s history forever. Seeking to spread the art he benefited so greatly from, Carlos began to make history – and to himself scribe the history of the guard. “He was the first westerner to overcome an eastern champion, in 1924, at a time when Japanese thought westerners to be a bunch of degenerates,” recalls son Rilion Gracie, considered to have the best guard in the family. It was against Geo Omori, when the grandmaster pulled guard and applied a tomoe-nage, the ever-popular “circle sweep,” and landed in the mount. So the Gracie popped the arm of the valiant Japanese, who ordered the fight to continue with the ligaments of his arm in shreds.

Later on, in 1951, when brother Helio Gracie closed his guard and, with his wrists (powerful to this day), put extraordinary judoka Jukio Kato to sleep, with a collar choke, the art of the guard came to eminence. And ready for further development, thanks to the ingenuity and sweat of other Gracies, Barretos, Hemetérios, Machados, Vígios, Gomes, Behrings, Alves’, Virgílios, Duartes, Penhas, Jucás, Castello Brancos, Góes’, Vieras, Santos’ and Silvas. And even a Stambowsky. Every new faithful adept at the guard went adding their contributions, depositing a stone here, spreading cement there, and helping to build the guard’s reputation as being the essence of Jiu-Jitsu.

The metaphor of building, in fact, is no gratuity. To Carlos Gracie Jr., the guard position is like a fortress providing the fighter security. You don’t necessarily lose a war just for not having solid ramparts, but it certainly helps. Including for, from atop them, posting your arsenal of attacks: “The guard is the Jiu-Jitsu fighter’s fortress. You choose whether to fight with it open or closed,” he teaches.

“In a war, what’s the most intelligent thing you can do? Start the war with your gates closed. In the closed guard, you are waging war with your enemy from within your walls. If the guy opens your closed guard, he knocks down your drawbridge. It’s a threshold position, which obviously demands a new strategy. If he invades, or in other words, passes your guard and makes it to your side, the battle starts to unfold within your domain, with you much more exposed. It becomes complicated, you’ll need to use thrice the strength to defend yourself, but that doesn’t mean there’s no way out.”

The shield becomes a weapon

In Rio during the 1950’s, Jiu-Jitsu was already famous for giving any old little guy the chance to be his own fortress. Thus, it was Carlson Gracie’s time to add his contribution to the guard – first during his days as a fighter, then with his students. Competitive to the extreme, Carlson would have his students specialize, to win championships. Those were the days when he would bellow: “You’re either a guard player, or a passer.”Should a reader inquire as to who were some of his best pupils, four good guard players surely make the list: Cássio Cardoso, Ricardo de la Riva, Sergio “Bolão” Souza and Murilo Bustamante.

“There’s a myth Carlson only trained guard passers. But besides De la Riva, he had another student, Marcelo Duque Estrada, the Octopus-Man, now a judge, who had an incredibly elastic guard,” comments red and black belt Master Redley Vigio. “Cássio Cardoso, for example, was good all around. But his guard really left an impression: all Jiu-Jitsu students should watch his one-hour fight with Marcelo Behring, from1988. Marcelo too had a phenomenal guard, and the end is sensational; it’s all on Youtube.”

Both big for those days, at around 76kg, Cássio had in the Rickson Gracie student his greatest rival, and the one-hour battle between the two was their decisive bout, held in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro. “Carlson told me to pull guard and tire him out. I even used a sweep I learned from Marcio Macarrão, but at the time it didn’t count on the score. In the end, I passed his guard three times and he passed mine once, 6 to 2 on the scorecards at the time. Today, it would be more like 21 to 5,” Cássio, 46, comments.

Up until 1994, it was not enough for the fighter on the bottom to reverse the fight and land on top to earn points from the sweep – he had to do it using recognized moves, like the tomoe-nage, or foot-on-crotch, or the classic scissor. With the reform of the rules, proposed by the newly-inaugurated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Confederation, all guard players had to do was pass and go on top to score points. Now they were given their due prestige. And were ready to surprise.

“The guard, which up until 1994 had been a shield, became a weapon and could decide the fight. I remember having seen in the gym, in 1987, Renzo Gracie playing spider-guard for the first time. As he was a guy with a lot of resources, he didn’t use it much in competition. Me, being skinny, I loved the invention and surprised a lot of people with it,” recalls Vinicius “Draculino” Magalhães, 37. The guard player show was taking off. The same year, with his confusing outer hook placed with his broad and ductile foot, Ricardo de la Riva managed to stop the impetus of the practically unbeatable Royler Gracie, and gained a guard named after him. Now Sérgio Bolão, with a peculiar guard (lying, with a knee drawn back at the bend in the adversary’s elbow, while the other leg would remain free to stand up; the sleeve was held on the bent knee’s side, and the other grip was placed at the knee, creating a pendulum and sweeping to the side of the knee pulled back), he made history and, in good cheer, inspired a generation of sweepers.

With a “bunk knee,” as he remembers it, Roberto “Gordo” Corrêa was obliged to improvise and also made his mark on the art. “The half-guard, which until then could be considered a position favoring the athlete on top, almost as good to attack as having side control, is today the perfect position for the guy on bottom to attack from. There’s no two ways about it, Jiu-Jitsu carries on in sheer evolution,” Carlinhos Gracie observes.

Stiff legs? That’s fine, you, too, can be a great guard player

It’s tough talking about the position’s evolution without citing two other out-of-the-ordinary fighters. Roberto “Roleta” Magalhães, the engineer of the sweeps, influenced a generation with new moves, unlikely traps that would lay waste to, in World Championships, aces of several generations – from Wallid Ismail (1996) to Zé Mario Sperry (1998), to Amaury Bitetti (1999) to Fernando Margarida (2000). Not without cause, the three owners of the most admired guards in present day – Rubens Cobrinha, Bráulio Estima and Roger Gracie – consider him, Roleta, the best they’ve ever watched fight. Another extraordinary guard player, with surreal finishes, was Antonio “Nino” Schembri, who also breathed a new rhythm into attacking Jiu-Jitsu – in this case, his idol Elvis Presley’s rock-and-roll.

Malleable, with strong and flexible legs, the duo from Gracie Barra helped reinforce the myth that an effective guard is elastic, almost magical. Not necessarily so. The referee in the battle between Roleta and Wallid, at the 1996 Worlds, policeman Sergio Ignácio was fed up training with the best guards at Gracie Barra. A passer of the best kind, strong, adept at the squashing game, he ran into a dilemma at brown belt: “I either learned to play guard, or Carlinhos wouldn’t promote me to black belt. That’s when I revealed my problem to Renzo, and he provided me the way off the plateau that dispelled my fear of playing guard: good guard replacement doesn’t demand elasticity, flexibility in spreading the legs – all you need is to not let the guy past the line of your knee. This lesson makes it a lot easier to replace.”

Sergio Ignácio didn’t just learn to play on bottom, but earned his black belt. The sensibility Renzo demonstrated, though, is an attribute one can develop as a guard player, in figuring out what works for his or her self. What most unleashes this sensibility, of course, is flight time in the gym. But there are shortcuts. “Jiu-Jitsu is body and mind,” Redley Vigio conveys. “When training, you use mostly your body. That’s why it’s fundamental that one converse after training, and take notes – even if just mental ones. It’s when you ask your training partners: ‘At that moment were you trying this, when I blocked you? Or was that what you were trying for?’ It’s when you go over the positions in your head and draw on your instinct and sensibility.”

Starting there, your guard will begin to gain wings. As revealed by Bráulio “Carcará” Estima: “When I attack, I do it from back to front. First I block my adversary’s defenses for my attack, and only then do I go for the fatal assault. They’re tiny adjustments. The first thing is to break your opponent’s posture. Then I work on him and try to annul his defense, before actually attacking. Thus, if I attack with a triangle but the guy defends, an arm ends up hanging out. These days, a good guard player is not one who defends his adversary’s best pass, but one who doesn’t even let his adversary begin to go for his best pass. You can’t let him develop his best game. That’s what being one step ahead is.”

For you to arrive at an advanced stage, though, never forget to build a solid foundation, for your ramparts not to crumble: “Anyone wishing to have a good guard should learn and practice all phases of the guard,” says Fabio Gurgel, leader of Alliance. “First closed, with the adversary on his knees, then with him standing; after that the classic foot-on-crotch guard and its variations. Insist on the basics, as later your body type and style of game will surely define what’s ideal for you.” There you have it, now you are ready to flail your legs, this time doing it with class.

GRACIEMAG.com contacted the Strikeforce star to find out how his recovery from a recent injury is going, and how he recently celebrated his… two birthdays.

“My father’s a military man,” laughs Werdum, recalling the story (first published in GRACIEMAG #98), “So despite my having been born on July 30, 1997, he only registered me on August 24, because it’s a commemorative date for the Brazilian army. My birth certificate says I was born on August 24, but I was born in July! He really did that! If I were to count both my birthdays, I’m 66 years old! So I only celebrate the one in July. The problem was when I’d go to the pizzeria I had to explain my birthday was a problem. To take my friends and not pay my part of the bill, I had to go again on August 24! It made things somewhat complicated, these days I don’t explain that much and just go by the date on my ID.”

Submitting Fedor. Photo: Esther Lin

Check out the conversation with the GRACIEMAG cover fighter:

What did you think of Anderson’s triangle (against Chael Sonnen) at UFC 117, where he also won with a double attack from the triangle? Who has the better triangle, him or you?

(Laughs). You guys are too much! I saw that Anderson, too, adjusted the triangle with his hand on his shin. Everyone saw that I used the double attack, varying between triangle and armbar. So now, for what my win is worth, everyone is aware of the effectiveness of this attack. I feel I motivated folks to do the position.

What happened  in your encounter with Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker after your win at Strikeforce?

He was there to watch my fight with Fedor and then went to visit me in the dressing room. I gave him one of my T-shirts; I was really happy because I’m a fan of his. He told me he really liked my fight, that he knew Fedor was favored to win. He celebrated there with us. A friend of mine shouted, “Werdum time,” then we sang “Forrest time” for him and he jumped around with us. It was really cool. He was surprised by my win, congratulated me.

How is your recovery from the operation on your arm coming?

Recovery is going great. I operated with one of the best specialists and I’m already driving and everything. I do more than two hours of physiotherapy per day. It was no simple procedure; I had to have seven holes drilled in my arm to get out all the detritus. But the doctor did such a good job I didn’t feel any pain. It always hurts a lot after surgery. With this one I didn’t even take painkillers. The doctor gave me a prescription, but I didn’t even need it.

Photo: Esther Lin

Readers who have already gotten their hands on GRACIEMAG 161 have a number of lessons at their disposal. To provide another one to web surfers, what’s the trick to squeezing out the triangle, especially against a fighter of Fedor’s caliber?

The trick to the triangle in MMA? Man, first, if you check out my MMA fight’s you’ll notice that I get hit a lot on the bottom. I even say in seminars not to close the guard. The progressive guard we do these days, with the details we assimilate, facilitates the triangle and the omoplata, among other things. The thing with the triangle is to keep your foot on the guy’s crotch to control his distance. In closing, put your hand on your shin, which helps not to slip. A lot of people don’t do that, but it’s what gives you time to adjust the triangle in the end.

I want to thank GRACIEMAG for the support it gave me. I made the cover of GRACIEMAG and NOCAUTE, everything! I want to thank you guys a lot. I’m going to frame those covers and put them on the wall at my gym for the gang to see. Thanks a bunch!

Photo: Publicity

Edson Ramalho is now responsible for physical conditioning at Alliance, but he’s also worked with top-flight athletes on other teams like Rafael Mendes, André Galvão, and Bruno Frazatto, among others. The trainer figures in the article “60 tips for a better working body” from GRACIEMAG #162, now in bookstores. On GRACIEMAG.com, Ramalho conveys his view of some physical conditioning issues.

“Ever since I started with André Galvão, in 2007, I noticed that athletes with a high level of technique can achieve more through physical conditioning work. It boosts strength for performing moves, allows one exert force for longer… With physical conditioning work we interfere positively in the technique. Gabi Garcia, for example, already had refined technique and by doing proper prep work she became quicker,” he remarks.

“I believe it is important to work beyond the particularities of the style. Each sport has its own particularity, but each athlete does too. Rafael Mendes, for example, was really explosive, but he needed strength. We carried out training geared towards that and it bore results at the ADCC. The particularity of the sport coupled with that of the athlete is the principle guiding physical preparation work. Of course, one also needs to consult a doctor and do some exams. We reach very high heart rates while training, it’s no joke,” advises the training.

Photo: Publicity

Another precautionary measure is to not go overboard in training, becoming overtrained, the subject of much debate among physical conditioning specialists.

“I seek to keep tabs on each athlete’s heart rate and pace in training. There are also other means of analysis, like checking lactic acid levels and performing saliva exams, for instance. We’re bringing over a physiology specialist from USP (University of São Paulo) who did a very interesting study on the matter, even taking samples during training and championships. During a championship the level of stress increases a lot. That helps to monitor the athletes progress and know if he is improving,” he says in closing.

For one reason: Gracie Publishing’s principal product will change. And you lose nothing by waiting for it.

“We launched GRACIE Magazine in 1996 as an improvement on the defunct ‘Jornal Gracie’ (‘Gracie Newspaper’). Since then our format has changed several times, including the name, as the magazine is now just called GRACIEMAG,” says our director-in-chief Luca Atalla, in an interview published today on the KombatClinic.com website.

“In 2006 the magazine was made bilingual (in both English and Portuguese), so as to facilitate its export to the international market. But now all that has changed. First hand, I announce that the international version of GRACIEMAG will be published only in English and the Brazilian version only in Portuguese,” Luca reports. You think the news ends there?

No way. Our MMA magazine NOCAUTE will now reach English-reading readers. “That’s right, our international edition of GRACIEMAG will offer the new CHOKE MMA magazine, the English-language version of our traditional NOCAUTE, as a supplement,” reports Luca Atalla.

The first issue of NOCAUTE, and the cover CHOKE MMA number 1.

Get a copy of your favorite magazine at better bookstores across the USA, like Borders, Barnes & Nobles, Books-A-Million, etc., and at GMA member academies, here.

And of course, by subscription: http://shop.graciemag.com

To read the complete interview with our editor, click here.

Big John disarms the triangle as soon as Werdum is finished with Emelianenko. Photo: Mike Colón

If Fabricio Werdum made history with his double attack on Fedor, last Saturday Anderson Silva proved the tactic is useful in the UFC, so it’s due time you understand this concept so important in Jiu-Jitsu.

To get the double attack down pat you need to draw your opponent into your trap of choice, no matter what situation you find yourself in during the fight – yes, because the double attack works standing, too.

And that’s what you’ll learn in this month’s GRACIEMAG, on its way to bookstores throughout the United States!

Check it out, learn, practice and comment here on GRACIEMAG.com.

Subscribe here.

To order individual issues, click here.

Never before has a single Jiu-Jitsu move paralyzed so many people, from Russia to Brazil.

Fabricio Werdum faced Fedor Emelianenko in San Jose, California, on June 26, with one of those impossible missions to contend with. He had to somehow beat a heavyweight unbeaten in 27 MMA fights.

Just after Fabricio squeezed out the triangle-armbar combination that left the Russian no way out, a scream was heard.

Not from Fedor, who may well have never screamed in his life. (Upon exiting his mother’s womb, they say, Fedor opened his eyes, looked at the Ukranian doctor with steely eyes and said: “My name is Fedor. Take good care of my mom,” and went back to sleep without so much as a whimper.)

The scream was heard in Tijuca, a neighborhood in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro city. “Jiu-Jitsu!” yelled a black belt from the window in the wee hours of the morning upon witnessing Werdum win on cable-television channel HBO. The celebrations spread across the globe all at once via twitter, forums and academies.

Such a victory warranted in-depth feature coverage from GRACIEMAG. Having penetrated Werdum’s dressing room, our reporter Deb Blyth and photographer Mike Colón managed to capture every decisive instant of the battle, and deciphered, from behind the calm of the Brazilian’s grin, why he was the chosen one to finally dethrone all-mighty Fedor.

A handful of analysts opined that Fedor lost because the pressure got to him. Unlikely for someone who went ten years and nearly 30 fights without losing, wouldn’t you agree? As proved in Deb’s article, the heroic and historic triumph was the fruit of a combination of the Russian’s excessive confidence and our GMA’s complete confidence in his Jiu-Jitsu. The assembly of a training camp comprised of champions did the rest.

From among the different lessons derived from Werdum’s win, GRACIEMAG sifted out those of greatest use to enrich your Jiu-Jitsu. This issue your favorite magazine serves up a special dossier on “the secret weapon” that took Fedor by surprise, but which savvier gentle art practitioners already know: the double attack.

In the dossier GRACIEMAG explains how having a plan B when a submission is in your sights is not just a clear-cut strategy, but a fundamental Jiu-Jitsu concept.

Dive into this issue and come out with a bevy of slick attacks for your arsenal.

It’s not just Werdum who displayed effective Jiu-Jitsu in MMA. Brock Lesnar did too. And GRACIEMAG took up an investigation of this gentle side of the hulking wrestler and UFC champion.

Rodrigo Comprido gave a tell-all account of Lesnar’s training and ever-more-open mind. In this must-read interview Comprido addresses the hardships involved in swapping a career as a World Championship-winning competitor for that of an elite MMA trainer.

For practitioners aching for new submissions, GRACIEMAG offers up yet another extra-special Training Program. Rafael and his brother Guilherme Mendes show off a series of techniques that will make your game draw amazement at the academy.

Do aches and pains keep you from training the way you would like to? Are injuries cropping up all the time? Do you want to hit the accelerator in your Jiu-Jitsu’s development? This month we bring you a guide to having a healthier body, according to pointers from well-established specialists. Don’t miss it!

And there’s much more in store for you in this month’s issue. In the competitions section you’ll find out who came up spades in Arizona at one of the fastest growing championships in the USA.

The GMA section features the teachers who’ve been standing out around the world – from the USA to Syria. Don’t miss out on this issue’s coverage of Long Island Pride and the Renzo Gracie academies championship, as well as a lesson from our GMA in Spain Ezequiel Zayas and an article  on Jiu-Jitsu’s rules by João Crus.

There’s more: Martin Rooney instructs you on how to work out your legs using a box; Alvaro Romano teaches the “donkey kick,” a powerful exercise to practice out in the open; Minotauro submitting Mark Coleman; and what there is to learn from bears.

Subscribe now in time to receive this issue by clicking here!

GRACIEMAG can also be found at major bookstores in the USA and, of course, at the GMA academy nearest you.

Quer ficar por dentro de tudo que rolou no Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu 2010? Há duas maneiras boas para isso. Uma é correr à banca mais próxima e garantir a edição 161 da GRACIEMAG. A outra é conferir neste sábado o Sensei Sportv inédito.

Depois da pausa para a Copa do Mundo, o Sensei SporTV volta ao ar recheado de novidades e atrações. 

Em um cenário totalmente reformulado, até mesmo o rapper 50 Cent, que está em temporada de shows pelo Brasil, aparece para mandar uma mensagem aos senseimaníacos. 

Os melhores momentos do Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu 2010 são o destaque no programa. O inédito tricampeonato mundial do peso galo Bruno Malfacine, clássicos da atualidade como Rafa Mendes x Cobrinha e Celsinho x Langhi, o duelo entre os médios, a categoria mais disputada da atualidade, e, claro, a conquista de Roger Gracie, o primeiro tricampeão mundial absoluto da história.

O Sensei SporTV vai ao ar neste sábado, depois do Sportvnews, no seu canal campeão também em lutas.

GRACIEMAG 161, nas bancas.

Leitor assíduo de GRACIEMAG, o faixa-branca Alexandre Pereira, de 40 anos, teve meses atrás uma carta sua publicada na revista, em que dizia que tinha plena confiança que pegaria sua faixa-preta… aos 60 anos.

Uma lição de paciência. Pois o perseverante leitor de Jardim Cinco Marias, no Rio, ataca de novo, em nova mensagem enviada a nós.

“Amigos da GRACIEMAG, na edição com o Calasans na capa eu declarei que estava de volta ao Jiu-Jitsu aos 40 anos. Veio a capa do Rolls, e no mës do meu aniversário vem o monstro do Roger. Junto com ele, veio finalmente a minha faixa-azul. Estou mais feliz que pinto no lixo. Acho que não vou mais esperar até os 60 anos para receber a preta, penso que ela pode chegar aos 55.
E garanto uma coisa: a seção Plano de Aula da revista me ajudou muito, pois encaixei algumas posições vistas ali e me dei muito bem nos treinos. A ponto de meu mestre me perguntar:
– Onde você aprendeu isso, cara?
Eu disse rindo:
– Ando treinando com os Gracie!
Muito obrigado à equipe da revista!”

Alexandre é o faixa-azul orgulhoso com o diploma na mão. Foto: Acervo pessoal.

E você, tem uma história boa envolvendo a GRACIEMAG ou seus treinos de Jiu-Jitsu? Mande para nós, pelo e-mail gracie@graciemag.com! Siga-nos também no twitter: @graciemag_br .

O companheiro da foto certamente não dorme bem! Foto: divulgação

Todos sabem que para alcançar bom desempenho nas competições ou ter boa qualidade de vida, além dos treinamentos técnicos ou físicos, é necessário comer e beber com qualidade.  Muitos, entretanto, deixam o sono de lado, como se fosse algo supérfluo. Na GRACIEMAG #161, o leitor vai entender que precisamos abraçar a arte de dormir tanto quanto abraçamos a arte do Jiu-Jitsu, por exemplo. 

Como diz o nosso colunista Martin Rooney no texto: “Se você pretende treinar e comer como um campeão, precisa estar preparado para dormir como um campeão também.” 

Não basta apenas dormir o número de horas necessárias para o descanso. É preciso alcançar o sono de qualidade, e existem maneiras de conseguir isso. 

Martin Rooney dá algumas dicas de como criar um bom ambiente para dormir e desenvolver o hábito de dormir corretamente, além de listar alguns dos problemas que uma série de noites sem descanso pode causar. 

GRACIEMAG está ao seu lado para ajudar a se tornar um campeão nos dojôs e na vida! Confira nas bancas, academias e livrarias por todo o mundo.

Consagrado no Mundial 2010, o tricampeão mundial absoluto Roger Gracie recebe uma sabatina inédita de todos os outros campeões mundiais na faixa-preta. O que o motiva a continuar competindo de kimono, pergunta Bruno Malfacine? Roger responde.

O que Roger faz para lutar o Mundial com um gás invejável, mesmo semanas depois de lutar MMA, como pergunta Michael Langhi? Roger responde.

Se a luta estivesse acabando e Roger estivesse atrás do placar, e nas costas do oponente, ele tentaria o estrangulamento ou poria os ganchos, garantindo a vitória – é o que pergunta Rafael Mendes. Roger se diverte, e responde na lata.

Que dicas Roger dá para Tarsis Humphreys, que pede uma série de treinos para ter um jogo mais justo. Roger, mais uma vez, não se omite e responde.

A edição mais disputada do ano chega às suas mãos nesta semana, com a cobertura completa do Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu 2010, e todas as lições de Roger Gracie para você ser um praticante melhor. Portanto, não perca!