Featherweight Samir Chantre on the Worlds: “I’m injure free even with all this hard training”
Samir Chantre is another black belt ready for the 2014 World Championship. Going for the featherweight gold medal this weekend, Samir is a Caio Terra…
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2013 Worlds: Gabriel Moraes’ persistence at light featherweight
Veteran black belt competitor Gabriel Moraes hadn’t won at the BJJ Worlds since 2004. With his 2013 title, he is now the black belt with…
No-Gi World Champion Milton Bastos Teaches a No-Gi Guard Pass
GRACIEMAG.com was present in Hollywood, CA on Saturday for a noon No-Gi training session with Paragon's Milton Bastos. A light featherweight champion in No-Gi as…
Learn the position Bibiano Fernandes taught Roger Gracie at One FC 5
A little guy with a massive arsenal of techniques, Bibiano Fernandes, 32, was overjoyed after winning a unanimous decision over his countryman Gustavo Falciroli in…
What’s your pre-Jiu-Jitsu competition routine like?
Running up stairs, sprints, strength-building exercises, one-handed kettlebell workouts, plenty of rolling in the gi, and roll after roll of bandages—that’s what Swedish brown belt…
Rafa & Gui Mendes on BJJ Worlds: “Not yet time to try the absolute”
The brothers Rafael and Guilherme Mendes are training hard as ever to defend their Jiu-Jitsu World Championship featherweight and light featherweight titles, respectively. GRACIEMAG.com had a…
Mendes comments on Mendes’ flip at UFC 133
Current world light featherweight champion Guilherme Mendes was tuned in when the fighter sharing his same last name, right in the octagon, performed a daring…
ADCC 2011: Robson to stick with “same old” strategy
What would you do if you were on the brink of waging war with the likes of Rafael Mendes, Rubens “Cobrinha”, Rani Yahya, Bruno Frazatto,…
A roll with Samuel Braga
One of the big names at light featherweight, current world runner-up (after closing out with Pablo Silva) Samuel Braga opened the doors to his training…
Ary: “We’re training more than we’re drinking water”
He won the light featherweight division at the Brazilian Nationals on Sunday, but the season will not permit Ary Farias to celebrate his first domestic…
Ary talks training to beat Malfacine
At twenty years of age – nine of those practicing Jiu-Jitsu – Amazon state native Ary Farias (Atos) has made it. On his black belt…
Watch Ary Farias vs. Malfacine at Euro Open 2011
Tipped as the best black belt final by GRACIEMAG.com, which covered the event exclusively in Lisbon, Ary Farias vs. Bruno Malfacine, at light featherweight, was…