GRACIEMAG 187 is chock full of teachings for improving your Jiu-Jitsu and life, and it’s already available at better bookstores around the world. In the cover story, your favorite Jiu-Jitsu magazine shines a spotlight on the subject of bullying, listing the eight main reasons why Jiu-Jitsu is the best medicine there is when it comes to combating mistreatment in everyday life. However, we didn’t stop at the painless antidote for bullying.

Below you’ll find 5 lessons to relish from the magazine for gentle-art practitioners of all ages, from 7 to 70 years of age or more.

1. Naïve is he who thinks he can evolve alone

The coolest thing about Jiu-Jitsu is how in training we always “create the snake that’s going to try and bite us.” In one of this month’s exclusive articles, GRACIEMAG teaches how to constantly flee your comfort zone—a task for the body and especially for the mind. “If you start tapping out a training partner with certain ease you have two options: to teach him to defend against the move or to stop evolving. When we feel too comfortable in a determined situation, it’s time to scramble the board to move the pieces out of place,” teaches Jiu-Jitsu professor Halisson Santos.

2. What can you learn from BJ Penn?

This month, we serve up 12 lessons derived from the career of the UFC’s beast from Hawaii. What’s one of them? “To this day, no one has managed to tell that a given method of training is the right one, the only one.”

3. “Steal with your eyes” at the academy

In this month’s White Page, Professor Federico Tisi addresses the importance of stretching before and after Jiu-Jitsu training, not neglecting self-defense and knowing your roots; as well as teaches us to steal with our eyes when training at the academy.

4. The nitty-gritty of the overhead sweep

GRACIEMAG # 187 features Professor José Henrique Leão Teixeira teaching the ins and outs and variations involved in successfully executing one of the most eyeful sweeps in the Jiu-Jitsu playbook. “Zé Beleza prefers grabbing the enemy gi at the elbows. He also prefers not to use the sole of his feet against the enemy hips,” says a certain snippet from TRAINING PROGRAM.

5. Coffee, herbal teas and the Gracie Diet

Grandmaster Helio Gracie recommended substituting sugary coffee with caffeine-free teas. Now that coffee has been linked to glaucoma and other illnessses, it shows that the original Jiu-Jitsu professor was at the very least on the right track. Read more about Helio Gracie and his behavior and diet tips, through lessons recounted by Grandmaster Francisco Mansur.

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“I’ve been buying the magazine for some time now, and the recent changes were REALLY good. Result: the April issue is the last one I will buy… at the news stand. I have finally decided to subscribe to GRACIEMAG. I’ll await next month’s issue at home.

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2009 world champion Gabriel Vella against 2010 world champion Rodrigo Cavaca, in photo by Regis Chen. The new GRACIEMAG, too, is worth gold.

It doesn’t matter what it is, you’re going to want to put it down to get a glimpse of the NEW GRACIEMAG!

Now the greatest Jiu-Jitsu magazine in the world will also offer the best from the MMA world, as seen through the prism of ground-fighting specialists, by way of a new supplemental magazine.

That’s right, TWO MAGAZINES IN ONE, AND THE PRICE STAYS THE SAME!

And that’s not all the news brewing.

Ever since GRACIEMAG expanded its distribution beyond Brazil’s borders in April 2006, the articles were published both in Portuguese and English. Starting this issue, though, the international issue will be published solely in English.

Thus we gain room to deliver readers more content, and to provide our team of artists greater flexibility with which to design pages that are more creative and pleasant to read, an important endowment considering how GRACIEMAG is used as a tool for learning lessons and techniques, like a portable Jiu-Jitsu academy.

Further reason for you to, starting now, secure your NEW GRACIEMAG every month, with ever more succulent articles on Jiu-Jitsu, health and the universe of MMA.

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