How Smart Students Use Their Instructors
The majority of classes in bjj academies around the world are structured the same way: warmup, technique instruction and then positional sparring or free rolling. But this is not the only …
What is Jiu-Jitsu for Everyone?
Another year is over and with it many achievements, training and realizations. Our GB family, as usual, remained within what we aim for our team: a constantly evolution to take …
Are You Ready For Your Blue belt?
An Instructors Opinion After a student has been training for at least a year they have started to look pretty good on the mats. No longer making newbie mistakes like …
GB Weekly Training Plan for 01/12 – 01/18
GB WTP Week 02 Since 1986 Gracie Barra has been shattering records, innovating and contributing to the expansion and professionalization of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. We are a worldwide community of Jiu-Jitsu practitioners …
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Advice for New Students on How to Roll
For the new student to brazilian jiu-jitsu, starting to spar can be an overwhelming experience. Trapped on the bottom, an opponent’s weight pinning you to the mat and defending a …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Why we "shake" before a fight? Is it fear or tension?
Among the more bizarre and inexplicable sensations we feel just before fighting, the most common is the tremor. Many people see the tremor as the opponent sensitivity. They normally believe …
Advanced Methods: Limit Your Training
For some more experienced belts, finding training partners of the same level in some academies can be difficult. Not all academies have a variety of training partners of beginning through …
5 New Years Resolutions Jiu-Jitsu Students Should Make
2015 is upon us. People often make resolutions. For Jiu-Jitsu students I’d recommend not making a general resolution like “get better at Jiu-Jitsu.” After all, you’re going to want to …
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Your 2015 Plan and Values
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” How planning really works and how we can apply in BJJ. Our art is dependent on a clear path to becoming …
GB Weekly Training Plan for 01/05 – 01/11
GB WTP Week 01 Since 1986 Gracie Barra has been shattering records, innovating and contributing to the expansion and professionalization of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. We are a worldwide community of Jiu-Jitsu practitioners …
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