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Posted on April 28, 2017January 10, 2018

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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Posted on February 8, 2017January 10, 2018

GB Techniques: Side Control Submissions

This week Gracie Barra Techniques brings you techniques to attack from the side control position. In Brazilian Portuguese language, the side control position is called “Cem kilos / 100 kilos” …

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Posted on March 4, 2016

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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Posted on May 8, 2015January 10, 2018

Drilling. How To Do It Right

“Want to drill?” The students will move to the edge of the mat during rolling, to “drill” their techniques. It quickly devolves from executing repetitions of an arm lock to …

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Posted on April 27, 2015January 10, 2018

What Should I Work On?

What Should I Work On? A student question to a black belt Students of bjj must attend class regularly to be exposed to all of the techniques in bjj. The best …

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Posted on March 16, 2015January 10, 2018

The Dirty Dozen

The 12 Most Important Techniques For You To Learn When Your Start BJJ Out of thousands of bjj techniques on YouTube, which select few should a student beginning their study …

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Posted on March 12, 2015January 10, 2018

The Whitebelt Problem – Getting Stuck in Side Control: 3 Pieces of Advice

Sometimes at the academy, when I have a group of less experienced students who show up for class I will ask the students which position they want to learn that …

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Posted on January 9, 2015January 10, 2018

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 …

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Posted on September 2, 2014January 10, 2018

Top 4 Things In Your First Year of Training

The majority of the students in any bjj academy will be the white belts. This article is especially for you guys! Many feel a sense of being overwhelmed when starting Brazilian …

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Posted on July 31, 2014

5 Tips on how to create pressure and be heavy on your opponent.

How To Weigh 500 Lbs! One of the almost miraculous aspects of grappling with a high level blackbelt in BJJ is how heavy even a 150lbs. opponent can feel on …

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