6 Submission Attacks From the Top By Gracie Barra Black Belts
Last week Gracie Barra Blog showed 5 videos on how to pass various types of the guard. Now that you have gained top control, the question becomes: How do you …
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A Bruce Lee Quote and a Blue Belt Lesson
Like many jiu-jitsu practitioners, my early martial arts imagination was captured by the movies. Bruce Lee of those 70’s Kung Fu movies remains perhaps the largest martial arts movie star …
A Safe School: Injury Prevention Guidelines
Safety: Guidelines for a Safe School There is no guideline that when followed provides for 100% safety 100% of the time at your school. However, the following guidelines will help …
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5 Guard Passes From Gracie Barra Professors
The Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu YouTube channel is a great resource to keep uptodate with what is happening with the Gracie Barra network and also to learn technique from some of …
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Your Side Control Checklist : 5 Tips For You
You have defended the triangle, passed your opponent’s guard and achieved side control…Now what? How do you keep the position without your opponent recovering their guard and squandering all of your …
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Your First Major Goal : Blue belt
As goal oriented people starting to learn the art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, one of the first questions that new students ask is “How long does it take to get a …
Life Lessons From Jiu-jitsu
Most of us think about the techniques when we consider the question of what we learn through training Jiu-Jitsu. I recently watched a jiu-jitsu documentary which featured interviews with many different …
The GB¹ Program: Class Structure and the Warm-Up
Essential to Your GB¹ Program: Class Structure and the Warm-Up The essential principles of the GB Method set the foundation for your school, and each principle is necessary for you …
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3 Tips To Improve Your Takedowns
After every tournament, the new competitors return to the academy with new things they learned about their jiu-jitsu. Among the most common revelations after a tournament is “Gosh! I REALLY need …
The GBK Curriculum
Curriculum for Kids – Bringing the GB Method to the Next Generation One of the awesome things about our GB Method is that it doesn’t exist in a bubble, only …