ES BJJ GI Product Review Post As a grappler, I feel you’re your GI says a lot about your work. It is a way you recognize a fighter in the crowd. Most people say that being a grappler your options are limited, you get to choose between very limited colors and there is no way you can customize your GI without feeling the strain on your pocket. All these things are true in my opinion. In most cases, if you come across a good BJJ GI, the options are limited. However, if you get past the options and you like something, the overall fitting process and finding the perfect size means you have to give ..read more

Top 4 High-Intensity Workouts for MMA Fighters HIIT-based training is known to be one of the most effective and most famous workouts for toning your body and weight loss. Within this workout pattern, you will see better results in a very limited time, and collectively this workout has proved to be the best. Most people use HIIT-based training to meet their goals, reduce their fat proportion and become closer to their ideal VMI level. However, what most people don’t know is that HIIT workouts are not just for weight loss and getting toned, it also helps you condition your body, improve strength ..read more

Top 4 Yoga Workouts for MMA To Reduce Chances Of Injury Starting an intense workout routine after spending a passive lifestyle for a long time can test your body. The world we live in today runs according to the clock. You will see people struggling to find enough time to cook a decent meal. This is where you will see takeout, bad diet, lazy lifestyle, and intense working routines where they will sit behind computers most of the day. In this intense lifestyle getting back in the ring without getting into shape means you will get injured right away. This also means that once you get injured, yo ..read more

20 Min MMA Workouts to Get In Shape As a beginner, starting your MMA journey can be quite daunting. This is mainly because you will see that to get in the ring people invest years. They have long training sessions and complex diet plans that help them maintain a good routine and fight in the ring. However, most people are not familiar with that. Just to be in the ring and to start training you have to be in good shape as well. Even if you have been an MMA fighter for a long time and you take a break for a few months, just to start training again you will start with the pre-training sessions. W ..read more

Bursting The Myth Bubble - Does BJJ Make Your Child Violent? BJJ is known to be one of the most advanced combat games. Almost all the professionals that you will ever come across will have some kind of specialty in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. People usually use BJJ as a foundation combat game and then build their skill further with other combat styles later. Starting from the way BJJ improves the functionality of your body to the way it impacts the muscle memory so it can later perform better with other combat games, Brazilian jiu-jitsu indeed changes and improves the way you fight. Long before Brazi ..read more

BJJ is known to be one of the best combat games so far. This is mainly because it helps you control yourself physically as well as mentally and improves your performance as well. From the way you handle people around you to the way you use your body effectively, everything revolves around physical workouts. Since most people find physical workouts very challenging they get to the combat-based workouts and add some functional workouts so they can see improvement in their health and development of their body. This seems to be a very easy task because they don’t have to get engaged in a lengthy ..read more

The STARLOCKS (YUP, YOU READ IT RIGHT!) Rashguard is one of my favourite new additions to the jiujitsu wardrobe. I will say that I refuse to wear it under the gi, I am definitely more of a t-shirt or nothing under the gi kinda grappler, but I refuse to hide this beautiful rashie under the gi jacket. In my grappling universe this is strictly Nogi grappling attire.   I first heard about XMARTIAL through Instagram.  They were kind enough to contact me to start collaborating (exchanging links etc.) and we started talking about reviewing one of their products. The hardest part w ..read more

Recently I published my first book, 'What Outstanding Instructors Do'. Since it was published, it has been doing incredibly well. More so, it’s been receiving lots of praise from those in the know: instructors and educators. For this I am eternally grateful.  When I set out to write the book, I thought it would turn out to be a small anecdotal booklet of about 100-150 pages of me talking and reminiscing about seeing this or that outstanding instructor getting their point across effortlessly or how they orchestrated a huge seminar with ease and magnetism. It started out like that but ..read more

Gripping and grabbing is such an inescapable part of jiu-jitsu, grappling and by extension all fighting. There are many reasons why we would choose to establish a grip. This could be to sink in a collar choke, to extended a limb or even to defend against the opponent’s own aggression.   While the practical applications of gripping (cloth) or grabbing (body part) are endless, the mechanical reason should always be the same:   To define the end of the lever. A lever is an inflexible rod that bridges between the mover (Force) and what needs to be moved (Load) around a rotation point ..read more

A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to be on the mat at the Gracie Academy out in Torrance California when Ryron was giving one of his first introductions to a 4-pronged approach to grappling and jiujitsu. He saw me intently taking notes and started laughing. Knowing my intentions, he asked me to not publish them immediately so, 2 years down the line, I feel I've honoured my promise. In a nutshell, he explained that he approaches every exchange with these objectives: Defend: anything the opponent may try to throw at you: including distance management Escape: When the time is right ..read more