Jiu Jitsu

Pablo Mantovani offers advice to up your game. Photo: Personal archive Pablo Mantovani, 26, became a guard specialist in the course of his jiu-jitsu education. With almost 17 years’ experience, he has accumulated titles from the IBJJF Worlds, ADCC trials and many…

Esdras Jr talks 2020 and mantaining his resolve in the face of a pandemic. Photo: IBJJF/Facebook Esdras Jr had a good year competing in 2020, despite the whole world having to come to grips with the covid-19 pandemic. The black-belt from Ares…

Bicudo and his gold medal from the 2020 IBJJF Pan nogi. Photo: Personal archive At 46, the instructor Fabricio “Bicudo” Medeiros is carrying on his mission of spreading BJJ through the U.S. The black-belt, who has lived in the States since 2016,…

To escape the all-fours position migrating to the half-guard, Leo Tunico controls (by the sleeve) the hand with which his opponent is trying to choke him. In parallel, he grips his opponent’s pants and thus manages to follow his movement. Watch how…

After a successfull 2020, Igor Paiva talks about his plans for this year.   Igor Paiva, 30, is living one of the best phases of his career as a BJJ athlete. In 2020 the black-belt from Soul Fighters won at the Pan,…

Photo: Giovanni L. Sacco A sitting master world champion, today the black-belt Ninja Pinto kindly shares some of his knowledge with our readers. In this video, Ninja teaches how he finishes via triangle in the aftermath of a one-leg sweep — a…

Ane Nunes/AJP The 2020/2021 season of the AJP tour is heating up again. The coming weeks will feature several events in several cities all over the world. The AJP is working diligently with its local organizers to offer athletes and fans events…

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Lang doing an ice bath after a hard day of training. After recovering from a serious motorcycle accident in 2013, Professor Rafael Lang, from Octagon MMA, was able to write his own story of overcoming obstacles in life and in Jiu-Jitsu. Although…

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