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12 BJJ Black Belts Give Their Best Tips for Starting BJJ {Video and Podcast}

March 25, 2018 by Stephan Kesting

12 BJJ black belts give their best advice for starting jiu-jitsu

Today you're going to get 12 BJJ black belts give their best tips, strategies and advice for people just starting out in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. White belts looking for help getting started and organising their training will really benefit from watching this. Although there are a few themes the fascinating thing is how diverse the advice is.  There is no one path, no one BJJ tip to rule them all, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: For Beginners, Miscellaneous, Podcasts Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, Brandon Mullins, Classes, Concepts, Elliott Bayev, Fundamentals, Jason Manly, Mike Zenga, Perry Bateson, Pshemek Drabczynski, Ritchie Yip, Rob Biernacki, Sean McHugh, Self Defense, Sparring, Strategy, The Mental Aspect, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Training, Travis Stevens, Video

Lapel Drag from Butterfly Guard and from Standing

November 15, 2017 by Stephan Kesting

Lapel Drag Breakdown

The lapel drag (aka collar drag) is an incredibly important move from the butterfly guard.  It's a legitimate sweep, but it's also an amazing setup for many other attacks. It's also low risk and doesn't require an elaborate grip to set it up. In this Youtube video Rob Biernacki shows some of the black belt details that'll make this sweep MUCH more effective, even against skilled, larger … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grappling Techniques Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, BJJ, Cobrinha, Gi, Gripfighting, Judo, Lapel Drag, Ritchie Yip, Takedowns, Techniques, Video, Wrestling

New Strenuous Life Podcast Episode with 5 x BJJ World Champion Bernardo Faria

September 27, 2017 by Stephan Kesting

Bernardo Faria on my Strenuous Life Podcast

I've just released a KILLER new podcast episode with 5 x BJJ World Champion on my Strenuous Life Podcast. (This is episode 086 of the podcast for anyone keeping track.) In this episode we talk about Bernardo's 'kidnapping' in the Philippines two years ago His thoughts on the results of ADCC 2017 The toughest guys he has ever rolled with Whether you can get your BJJ black belt … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcasts, Training Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, BJJ, Competition, Conditioning, Gi, Self Defense, Teachers, The Mental Aspect, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Training

How to do the Over-Under Guard Pass in No Gi

February 26, 2017 by Stephan Kesting

Bernardo Faria shows the over-under pass in no gi

Can you do the over-under guard pass in no gi? That's a good question, and there's nobody better to answer this question than my friend Bernardo Faria, a multiple time BJJ world champion known for his crushing over-under guard pass. As the name implies, the over-under involves getting one of your arms over  his legs and your other  arm under his legs.  In the gi you would typically grasp his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Competition, Grappling Techniques Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, Guard Passes, No Gi, Over-Under Pass, Video

The Training and Competition Strategies of Bernardo Faria

February 3, 2017 by Stephan Kesting

  Bernardo Faria is a 5 x BJJ World Champion (and a good friend) so I was very excited to sit down with him and have an in-depth conversation about his competition, training and conditioning routine. The full transcript, audio and video are below on this page, but here's a quick preview of some of the things talked about: Exactly what a world champion's day to day training regimen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Competition, Interviews Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, BJJ, Competition, Conditioning, Gi, Guard Passes, Guard Sweeps, Half Guard, Injuries, Sparring, Strategy, The Mental Aspect, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Training

Napoleon and How To Be Ready for Anything in BJJ

October 1, 2016 by Stephan Kesting

Napoleon and how to prepare for anything in BJJ

Napoleon Bonaparte may have been a megalomaniac who left millions dead in his wake, but if you read about his battles and military campaigns there is no doubt that he was a strategic and tactical genius. (Well, maybe he wasn't a genius when he invaded Russia in 1812, but before that he was damn near unstoppable...) He fought over sixty battles in his lifetime, during which he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grappling Techniques, Training Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, Brandon Mullins, Escapes, Gameplan, Marcelo Garcia, Napoleon, Quote, Strategy, Techniques, Unorthodox Strategies

A 4 x World Champion Teaches the Omoplata from Closed Guard

August 29, 2016 by Stephan Kesting

omoplata from the closed guard by Bernardo Faria

In this video my friend (and 4 x world champion) Bernardo Faria takes you through the old school omoplata armlock from the closed guard. I have seen Bernardo tap out everybody, from white belt to black belt, using ONLY the omoplata armlock at one of his seminars. It was incredible.  So needless to say he's really bloody good with the omoplata and a great person to study for this attack! As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grappling Techniques Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, Closed Guard, Gi, Omoplata, Submission, Techniques, Video

Bernardo Faria’s guard pass: the over-under

July 21, 2015 by Stephan Kesting

Bernardo Faria over-under guard pass

In Judo there is the concept of 'Tokui Waza', which means your "favorite" or "best" technique. This is the technique, or techniques, which you are most comfortable with and use when the chips are down. In Bernardo Faria's case, his Tokui Waza has to be the over-under guard pass. This pressure-based technique has resulted in a boatload of gold medals for Bernardo, most recently a gold in both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Competition, Grappling Techniques Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, BJJ, Competition, Guard Passes, Techniques, Video

Podcast EP28: How Bernardo Faria Won Double Gold at the BJJ Mundials

July 5, 2015 by Stephan Kesting

bernardo-faria-BJJ-Competition

In this in-depth interview I talk with Bernardo Faria, the 99kg BJJ fighter who recently took gold in not only his own weight class but also in the absolute division of the 2015 BJJ Mundials. Some of the highlights of my talk with Bernardo Faria included... His mindset going into big tournaments How he developed and refined his highly individual BJJ gameplan What he's learned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Competition, Conditioning, Interviews Tagged With: Bernardo Faria, BJJ, Competition, Deep Half Guard, Gi, Gi vs No Gi, Interviews, Marcelo Garcia, No Gi, Omoplata, Takedowns, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Wrestling

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