Just in case you want to see what's hot, as of December 2011 the most popular instructionals right now are: 1) THE NUMBER ONE SET: HOW TO DEFEAT THE BIGGER, STRONGER OPPONENT … [Read more...]
Grapplearts DVDs
High Level Pin Escapes
How many times has someone almost gotten past your guard... ...You're just about pinned; it's just a matter of time... ...So you mentally relax, concede the position and prepare for the battle to get out of sidemount using your pin escape techniques. This approach can work, but it's very much the hard way of going about things. To make your life on the mats MUCH easier watch the video … [Read more...]
Two Drills on Video to Improve your Guard Sweeps
Many of the most powerful guard sweeps rely on your hips being underneath your opponent's center of gravity. This makes him very unstable - think of the difference between 1. standing on the floor beside one of those stability balls, and 2. trying to stand on top of that same stability ball. … [Read more...]
How to Defeat the Bigger Stronger Opponent NOW AVAILABLE
It's here! The How to Defeat the Bigger, Stronger Opponent DVD set is in stock, and ready to ship right now. Emily Kwok and I have been crafting this 5 DVD set for a long time, and it's one of the best instructional sets I have ever seen. … [Read more...]
How to Defeat the Bigger, Stronger Opponent
Today is a very exciting day! For the past few months I've been working like crazy to get my new DVD series finished. In these videos I'm collaborating with my friend, and former teammate, Emily Kwok. She's one of the best known competitive grapplers out there! For a lot of different reasons. … [Read more...]
Some recent pics; see me get choked!
Emily Kwok is a BJJ black belt who has trained with some of the best people in the world. And she's been very successful at the highest levels of competition in BJJ, Submission Grappling and Women's MMA. And she recently choked me silly for the camera... … [Read more...]
Life in Hollywood North, and an Important Article
I've got to be quick with this blog post. We've been in studio almost continuously for three days, filming what might be my most ambitious video project ever. And we've got to get back at it really soon. (I'm super excited about this project btw. … [Read more...]
Black Belt Concepts Course Live Again
The Black Belt Concepts Course is finally live again!! There's no doubt in my mind that this is my very best instructional product; after all, it took an entire year of all-out work to create. … [Read more...]
Passing the Guard with the ‘Twitch Pass’
Let me share the 'Twitch Guard Pass' with you today - it's one of my highest percentage, bread and butter, go-to moves, so I'm sure you'll like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scpa6e5sW0M With the Twitch Pass you can blow through someone's guard very quickly. In fact many advanced grapplers use it but - as is so often the case - not all of them can explain it or break it down for … [Read more...]
The Most Important Thing For Improving Your Grappling
I used to think that if I just learned enough ways to pass the guard, mastered enough submissions, memorized enough pin escapes, pick up enough guard sweeps, received enough tactics and just had enough techniques at my fingertips, then... someday... I would master the art of grappling. … [Read more...]
The Grappling Concepts Online Course
I've been hard at work in 'the lab' cooking something up something new... And now it's finally ready: the online 'Black Belt Concepts' course. … [Read more...]
Unorthodox Positions DVD Update
Recently I taught a seminar on Unorthodox BJJ Positions. The success of this seminar inspired me to write a series of newsletters on how touse unusual positions to confuse, frustrate and ultimately submit your opponent. … [Read more...]
Incorporating Other Martial Arts into BJJ
One of the tenets of JKD is that one should keep an open mind with regard to other styles. After all, "absorb what is useful, reject what is useless" is a classic Bruce Lee quote. In general, I find that most BJJ practitioners are relatively open minded when it comes to learning from other styles. … [Read more...]
New DVD – “Step-by-Step Submissions”
I just want to tell people that I'm adding another DVD to my Roadmap for BJJ Package. It's tentatively titled "Step-by-Step Submissions". This new video will be in a different format from my other DVDs. … [Read more...]
Three Keys to Progressing In BJJ
On my road to BJJ black belt I've seen the same mistakes made again and again (and I've also made a few of them myself). That, in a nutshell, is why I created the Roadmap For Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Package. … [Read more...]
Emerging Soon From the Lab…
I've been down in the laboratory recently, cooking up the latest Grapplearts offering. Since we're in the final stages of production now, and because I thought you might be interested, I'll whip off the veil of secrecy and tell you about what's going on. … [Read more...]
Countering the Half Guard Pass
Since I released my DVD on the Dynamic Half Guard I get a lot of questions on how to prevent certain guard passes. I cover a lot of guard pass and leglock prevention in that video, but it's *only* 2 hours long … [Read more...]
Learning BJJ in a Digital Age
I recently did a remote interview with Marshall Carpenter from Lockflow.com on the topic of how the internet has changed the way grappling knowledge is transmitted, learned and modified. You can check out the interview at Lockflow, or in the text below. … [Read more...]
Leglock Entry from Standing Clinch
Jumping into a leg lock is a great alternative to pulling guard! Here's a technique to go from standing directly into a leglock that I've used successfully multiple times, both in competition and in sparring. This clip is from the 'Entries' section of the High Percentage Leglocks DVD, available on this site. You can view the same Standing Clinch video on YouTube by clicking this link! … [Read more...]
The Four Most Common Leglock Mistakes
When you're doing a leglock a tiny adjustment can have a huge effect. And if you're doing something wrong then it can totally shut down your attack. Leglocks are no different - if you can simply avoid making these common mistakes then you'll put the power of your leglock attacks through the roof. In the video below I go over the four most common leglock mistakes. This is a small … [Read more...]