He captured the UFC belt after submitting his opponent on the 3rd round.

The submission came in the form of a kneebar.

Know more about Rodrigo and Hollywood BJJ at hollywoodbjj.com

Click to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmbwws-Nbw

3X world champion Braulio Estima is our Professor this week.

He teaches a kneebar setup that uses the foot on the opponent’s biceps and a great deal of spinning.

Pay attention and add it to your guard game.

In order to gain access, head to www.estimainaction.com and sign up to be one of the first. The full site is set to launch tomorrow, Friday Aug. 8.

In the meantime, check out this kneebar from spider guard for a sample:

Marcus Bochecha sets up a submission in the over-91 kg final of the WPJJC Trials. (Photo by  Erin Herle/GRACIEMAG)

Last Sunday, Marcus “Bochecha” Almeida returned to competition for the first time since winning the absolute at the 2012 World Championship. The CheckMat black belt took to the mat at the WPJJC Trials in San Diego, competing in the over-91 kg brown/black belt division. The effort earned the Rodrigo Cavaca student an all-expenses-paid trip to Abu Dhabi, where he’ll likely collide with Rodolfo Vieira, Claudio Calasans, Leandro Lo and other already-qualified aces in the absolute division.

In the Trials final, Marcus Bochecha used one of his slickest weapons, the half-guard, to pull off a kneebar. The victim was the USA’s James Puopolo, who tapped out 1:55 minutes into the match.

Caio “Hell Boy” Magalhães training in Fortaleza / Photo by Junior Samurai/GRACIEMAG.com

Jiu-Jitsu black belt Caio Magalhães should be back in MMA’s most famous cage in the month of November. Training in the Northeast Brazilian city of Fortaleza, the fighter hasn’t forgotten about his past as a gentle-art competitor and has targeted the Abu Dhabi WPJJC tryouts coming up September 15 and 16 in the city of Natal.

“I dream of competing in Abu Dhabi. I managed to qualify this year, but my UFC commitments kept me from participating,” he recalled. “But this time I think it’ll happen. I’m going to secure my spot right away,” he asserted.

Always with an eye to gentle-art studies, the UFC middleweight demonstrated a position exclusively for GRACIEMAG.com.

In the instructional, Caio shows how to fool the opponent when passing guard in No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu. Notice how he removes his opponent’s underhook, grabs his head and puts a hand on his biceps to then land on the side and fake a kneebar attack. From there, he keeps the hook in place and spins, sitting and grabbing the hip, to next take the back.

Found the move useful? Let us know in the comments field below.

Igor Rodrigues against Felipe Costa in 2012 Brazilian National Jiu-Jitsu Championship final / Photo: Carlos Ozório/GRACIEMAG.com

The roosterweight Igor Rodrigues had already assumed the post of Brazilian National Jiu-Jitsu champion as a purple and brown belt. Two weekends ago in the Grajaú neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro City the CheckMat rep managed to achieve the distinction at the highest rank, as a black belt.

“I won three matches on grit, caution and attention. The first I won on points. The second came by points too but I had a kneebar in place when it ended. Now in the final I swept and finished Felipinho [Costa] via kneebar,” he told GRACIEMAG>com.

Watch Igor Rodrigues catching Felipe Costa by the leg in the 2012 Brazilian Nationals roosterweight final:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhWUAx20JLU

The Ricardo Vieira athlete looked back on the course of his career in Jiu-Jitsu. He lives in Búzios, in the lakes region of Rio de Janeiro State, and trains with Ricardo in Rio de Janeiro City. “I come from a capoeira background. I made it to the top of the sport in 1998, when I won the Brazilian National Championship. In 2002 I became acquainted with the gentle art and fell in love. On that same year I started training under Jiu-Jitsu professor Marco Chuck in Búzios. I won a number of important titles under him. I got my black belt after winning gold in the brown belt division at the Brazilian Nationals. Still, I could tell that training in Búzios wasn’t competitive enough for me to go up against the best in the country,” he remembered, explaining why in 2009 he made the move to team CheckMat.

“Ricardo invited me to join the team, and I started to see Jiu-Jitsu from different angles. I carried on winning other competitions, and now I’ve conquered the Brazilian national title at black belt,” said Igor, who summed up how he achieved the quality he did at the CBJJ championship.

“My strategy, laid out by my trainer, was to attack the opponents’ feet and knees. I was opportunistic and got the holds when the time was right,” he said jubilantly.

Toquinho performing his trademark leglock on Mike Massenzio atUFC Rio 2 / Photo: UFC publicity

Desire, strength and a whole lot of pressure—those are the main attributes of Jiu-Jitsu black belt Rousimar “Toquinho”, otherwise known as “Paul Harris”. The former cowboy with a penchant for leglocks, be them heelhooks or kneebars, rarely lets his prey escape the crippling holds.

As was brought up in GRACIEMAG issue 138, where a number of ADCC 2011 competitors put the BTT star under the microscope, his success in wielding the move comes down to force and positioning. Endowed with a T-shaped plate of pectoral muscles, Toquinho fits the enemy foot under his torso, his legs helping to adjust the position, while his torsion technique takes care of the rest.

TAKE DOWN AND FINISH, THE WAY JIU-JITSU TEACHES

On the coming 5th of May, Rousimar Toquinho will be taking on Alan Belcher at the UFC on Fox 3 event in New Jersey, USA. Toquinho has been training hard at BTT headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, and he’s already about at weight for the fight. As his coach Murilo Bustamante always says, the time to “let the beast off the chain” is nigh.

GRACIEMAG.com was at the foot-finish master’s training camp, where he demonstrated exclusively for GRACIEMAG.com readers a double-leg takedown with a leglock follow-up—his specialty. Watch, learn and respond: Will the hold rear its head again come May 5? What do you think, gentle reader?

UFC on Fox 3
New Jersey, EUA
May 5, 2010

Nate Diaz vs Jim Miller
Josh Koscheck vs Johny Hendricks
Rousimar Palhares vs Alan Belcher
Pat Barry vs Lavar Johnson

Card Preliminar (Fuel TV)

Tony Ferguson vs Thiago Tavares
John Dodson vs Darren Uyenoyama
John Hathaway vs Pascal Krauss
Louis Gaudinot vs John Lineker
Danny Castillo vs John Cholish
Dennis Bermudez vs Pablo Garza
Nick Denis vs Johnny Bedford
Mike Massenzio vs Karlos Vemola

Absolute champion in Abu Dhabi in 2009, Tarsis wants a return to the Jiu-Jitsu pinnacle, between seminars. Photo: Ivan Trindade/GRACIEMAG.

A black belt on team Alliance, São Paulo native Tarsis Humphreys still dreams of being at the WPJJ, a professional Jiu-Jitsu tournament that will kick off in Abu Dhabi on April 13. While he resolves how to bring his wishes to fruition, Tarsis decided he’d open up to GRACIEMAG.com readers:

“I made some videos for a company that is taking care of my seminars called Worldwide Jiu-Jitsu Seminars. I felt it would be a good idea to share some of the videos with GRACIEMAG.com’s readers, as a way of publicizing the seminars and providing readers with more positions,” he said.

KNEEBAR FOR GI AND NO-GI JIU-JITSU

“The positions are mine, ones I invented and use a lot in training an in competition. They’re really effective. Truth is, I kept them under wraps for a long time, but now the time has come to show them,” he quipped. “Note how the kneebar can be done both in the gi and out of it. Now I just hope no one uses these submissions on me!”

Jiu-Jitsu ace Charles do Bronx sinking the fight-ending calf-crunch, to Eric Wisely's chagrin / Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC

The calf crunch, a weapon of surprise in Jiu-Jitsu, finally had its moment in the sun last Saturday in Chicago, when Charles “do Bronx” Oliveira used one to swiftly bring his fight at UFC on Fox to a close.

IT’S WRAP IT UP, GRAB THE WAIST, AND WRAP UP

An expert on the position in sport Jiu-Jitsu, Augusto “Tanquinho” Mendes (Soul Fighters) got his girl’s dad to help him show GRACIEMAG.com readers how it’s done, on his break between seminars in Lyon.

So, direct from France, Tanquinho and Megaton go over the details of the move Charles honed so smoothly in São Paulo. Or was it in the Bronx?

Young Jiu-Jitsu black belt Oliver Geddes in photo by Callum Medcraft/BJJ Style

It was during the absolute. England’s Oliver “HarDrive” Geddes, a Roger Gracie black belt based in London, was getting put through the wringer by the stalwart Marcos Souza (Bonsai).

GOOD SURPRISE JIU-JITSU POSITION FROM TOP

At the end of the match, Oli pulled a rare below-the-belt position out of his sleeve, as you can see in this video by England’s BJJ Style.

Dug it? Already familiar with it? Comment below?

Check it out, and remember: stay safe, only practice under a qualified Jiu-Jitsu instructor’s supervision.