This is part 1 of a 2 part article by guest contributor Mathew Palfrey, a strength and conditioning coach from the UK. In this first part Mathew lays out some of his ideas about how strenght and conditioning can be approached conceptually and in the second part he will provide some examples to illustrate the concepts.
Vitamin D helps your body use calcium for building strong bones, has benefits for heart health, helps keep your immune system in top form, and helps keep you in good spirits. The good news is that your body can actually manufacture Vitamin D if you get enough exposure to natural sunlight.
In this segment of BJJ Power Play Luigi Mondelli shows us some of the tricks he uses in setting up the arm lock from guard. By leaving his fist against his opponents neck and locking his legs tight before he swings around to set the submission, he helps to prevent an opponent from stacking to escape. There are a lot of details in this quick clip, check the grip, the hips, the hand position in the collar, the knees squeezing, and the finish.
I was watching television one day in when I saw the Gracie Combatives commercial. I caught my attention and I called and ordered the DVDs. That was in September 2009. After that, BJJ became a major part of my life. I started training regularly at a local school the next January.
In this video Rolles Gracie shares with us the result of years of practice and blending techniques he's learned from Ralph Gracie, Renzo Gracie, and Rillion Gracie. Standing to open the guard might be the only option when facing an opponent who is much stronger, or has long legs, but it can be tricky to do correctly. Rolles method provides lots of options for passing to either side and responding to various movements that your opponent might make during the pass.
Mary Bell received her education as clinical dietitian from UT Southwestern Medical Center in 1993. She has been a sports and wellness dietitian for over 10 years in the Dallas area and currently runs Rudog, a website focused on specialized nutrition for fighters.
Are you thinking about changing things up this year? Maybe you are ready for a new way of eating . Maybe you have thought about trying to eat clean all the time. (Do we really know what “eating clean” means? It seems to be a highly variable definition.) Maybe you have even wondered if becoming vegetarian is a good idea or not.
We’ve all felt like quitting before. Quitting a workout early, quitting a diet, quitting a rolling session, and sometimes even quitting on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu altogether.
That's the motto for the Robson Moura Nova Uniao Jiu Jitsu Association - and describes his overall family approach at the same time.
Mastering Jiu Jitsu with Momentum
When you think about momentum do you think about speed? Most people do. And, although this isn’t wrong, let’s think about it in a different way. Let’s analyze how momentum can be forced, applied, and given. We can think about these three kinds of momentum as stages we pass through in our developmental as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Mixed Martial Arts practitioners.
In this episode of Rolling Reflections Pete gets a chance to roll with Rolles Gracie Jr. at the Renzo Gracie Academy in Holmdel New Jersey. Rolles is the grandson of Carlos Gracie Sr. and the son of Rolls Gracie who was a legendary innovator in BJJ.
Watching Rolles roll and teach it is obvious that he has continued his father's tradition of studying different styles of grappling and fusing them together into his own unique style of Jiu-Jitsu.
