self defense

March 10, 2011

Valente Brothers negotiate Jiu-Jitsu reality show in the USA

Under the title “The brothers who teach FBI agents”, our GMAs the Valente brothers were featured in “Veja Rio” magazine during the Brazilian carnaval festivities.…

February 11, 2011

Brazil’s black belt chief justice

It was another drubbing by Jiu-Jitsu: 68 to 2. Twas by this “score” that Brazilian minister Luiz Fux was approved by the senate as a…

February 6, 2011

Jon Jones’s guillotine is sharp. Is yours?

After the front kick, the guillotine was the big star of the last UFC, this Saturday in Las Vegas...

February 4, 2011

“Jiu-Jitsu isn’t for the strong, it’s for the physically weak, for women”

Who was it that used to defend this thesis statement? None other than Grandmaster Helio Gracie, who left us two years ago on January 29, 2009...

February 1, 2011

Learn a takedown from Jiu-Jitsu’s spider

JT Torres, a bronze medalist at the last European Open Jiu-Jitsu tournament, is the second most famous “Spider” in MMA. But he's tough as nails…

January 14, 2011

What do you love and hate about Jiu-Jitsu?

Photo: Regis Chen Ten things you love about Jiu-Jitsu 10) Finishing that guy ten years younger than you and that other one forty-five pounds heavier…

January 5, 2011

How do you escape the guillotine?

Check out one of the most used ground attacks. What about you, is this how you like escaping the guillotine choke? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaGb7A2W_yI

December 30, 2010

That strange day that never comes

each individual has on his own personal calendar that strange day that never comes that writer Luis Veríssimo would tell us about. The day when you lose weight and get a fit body, the day you ask out that pretty girl from the second floor, the day you switch jobs.