6 Guard Technique Videos from Gracie Barra
Do you have a dangerous guard that is difficult for your opponent to pass? This week Gracie Barra brings you some new ideas for some creative attacks from your guard. …
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E-Book: Building a Competition Team
Establishing a successful academy means going above and beyond expectations. As a Gracie Barra Professor or School Owner you will have to consider the idea of developing a competition team. …
Stuck In A Training Rut?
One of the most common questions that Jiu-jitsu instructors get is that a student feels like they are stuck in a rut. They feel that their learning has plateaued and their …
5 Techniques From The Butterfly Guard
If there is a single style of guard that trasnfers from g1 to no-gi the best, it might be the butterfly guard. In addition to being great defensively to keep an …
3 Reasons Your Friends Should Try Jiu-jitsu
Most of us students of Brazilian jiu-jitsu can not imagine our lives without going to the academy several times per week. At a social gathering some of your friends will ask …
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The GBK Class Structure
As we’ve been discussing in other articles on the vHQ, in order to effectively build our schools and a strong future for Gracie Barra, we must develop and follow systems, …
Gracie Barra – Pan Am 2016
Gracie Barra has a long history with jiu-jitsu competition and the red shield is represented at every major jiu-jitsu tournament around the world. For the last several decades Gracie Barra …
Private Lessons or Group Classes: The Best Way To Learn Bjj?
I had a brand new student to bjj (How new? I had to demonstrate how to tie the white belt!) who started taking private classes as his introduction to jiu-jitsu. Most …
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The Gracie Barra Class Structure
We’ve been discussing many of the central elements of our organization, and at the heart of many of those is the GB Method. You might recall that the foundation of …
GB Blog: CHILDREN x COMPETITION
Recently, GB won four trophies – 3rd place overall, 1st place Children, 1st place Junior and 2nd place Teenagers – in one of the largest children’s competitions in the world, …