Best Bulgarian Bag Exercises to Improve Your Jiu Jitsu
The idea of a home gym or workout area is appealing to any Jiu Jitsu player. However, your bulky gym equipment may end up competing with potential mat space. Fortunately,…
The Best Gym Towels
What exactly is a gym towel for? It is not there just to help you wipe some sweat off in between rolls. On the contrary, it’s there to help with…
Interview with Gannon Lang – From Passion to Full Time Job
Please introduce yourself Hey there, my name is Gannon Lang. I’m 23 and a Brown Belt under Nakapan Phungephorn (Owner of BETA Academy). I live in Fredericksburg, VA and own…
8 Things Every Big Athlete Deals with— The “Big Guy Blues”
Complaining about being tall at BJJ gym is like complaining about being rich or handsome at a nightclub. Any comment portraying your height as troublesome elicits sarcastic reactions like: “Yeah…
7 Exercises to Improve Your Flexibility in Jiu Jitsu
What are the defining characteristics of some of the best BJJ athletes in the world? Speed, technique, tactics, strength, experience, flexibility. But which one of these is the most important?…
Surfing and BJJ – What Are The Benefits?
What exactly does it mean to live the BJJ lifestyle? The best part about the answer to this question is that it is a bit different for everyone. Individuality plays…
The Disrespectful Triangle Choke From 50/50 Guard
There is something special about making moves that shouldn’t work – work. This is not something you can do often in BJJ, and especially not reliably against higher level grapplers….
Are You Too Old To Learn Jiu Jitsu After 40?
One of the most common phrases you’ll hear from your training partners is “I wish I started training earlier.” You may often hear this from twenty-somethings with their whole lives…
New BJJ White Belt: What To Focus On
If you find yourself getting tapped left and right by everyone, trying to figure out why the things you learned in class didn’t work, and going home beat up but…
What Makes a Great BJJ Instructional Video?
This generation of Jiu Jitsu players has unprecedented access to countless hours of BJJ instruction. Just 20 years ago, the acquisition of technique was whatever your academy taught, or a…