Hubor Handles Monster-Sized Men/Cutting Weight

  This December I will be travelling to Jacksonville and Miami to visit family. So last night I searched for Jiu-jitsu academies in those cities that I could possibly train in while visiting. In Jacksonville, I came across Victor Hubor Jiu-jitsu. Hubor is a Royler Gracie trained grappler and is a “4 x Mundial Champ, 2 [...]

Jiu-jitsu for 2 Weeks Straight -Training Log

Check out my grappling books on Amazon: Tapmonster: Ideas about Grappling for BJJ and Submission Wrestlers, Grappling for Newbies, 20 Ways to Increase Grappling Skills off the Mat, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Grappling and much more. So now I have been practicing Jiu-jitsu every day for over two weeks.  What have I learned? I now know that my approach to [...]

The Ultimate Fighter/Episode 11: “Grossed Out”

I don’t know what to say about last night’s episode of The Ultimate Fighter. War Machine creates an “Upper-decker” in the Hughes’ teams toilet and then Mac Danzig spits in the perpetrator’s room later on when no one is looking. I understand that they had to provide the backdrop for the physical altercation between Warpath and Jared [...]

Dr. 90210 (Rey) Earns a Blue Belt

Check out my grappling books on Amazon: Tapmonster: Ideas about Grappling for BJJ and Submission Wrestlers, Grappling for Newbies, 20 Ways to Increase Grappling Skills off the Mat, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Grappling and much more. While checking out Sha’s Grappling Log yesterday I noticed that it listed video sources for learning submission techniques. When I checked out one of [...]

Jiu Jitsu, Flying Submissions and MMA

Check out my grappling books on Amazon: Tapmonster: Ideas about Grappling for BJJ and Submission Wrestlers, Grappling for Newbies, 20 Ways to Increase Grappling Skills off the Mat, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Grappling and much more. I was reading a guy’s blog (http://e5media.com/archives/), detailing his Jiu-jitsu exploits, yesterday and it had a neat little video where a guy in a jiu-jitsu tournament tossed his [...]

Another Hughes and GSP Rematch

Disclaimer: The UFC is a privately owned company and they can do what they want. Also I would never try to hinder any fighter from making any money. Now, with that out of the way, let’s talk about how solid of an idea it is to have a rematch of Georges St Pierre and Matt Hughes. [...]

What’s Better; Repetition or Always Changing it Up?

While performing my solo drills I began to think about how many Jiu-Jitsu and submission grappling classes are run. From my experiences I have observed that many classes start with a warm-up of varying length, a drill session and then some sparring to work on those drills. Of course, every academy is different. But from my experiences or from those I have [...]

Biting to Escape the Mount Aargh! Aargh! Aargh!

  I was watching a YouTube video on mount escapes this morning put out by Mark Hatmaker. I also have at least three of his submission grappling and MMA books. Although Hatmaker’s statement was almost made in passing, he did mention that you could bite an opponent as a way of making them distracted enough so [...]

Out in the Cold/Staying in the Loop

My class meets on Tuesday and Thursday, so naturally Thanksgiving meant no class. However, a few of us agreed to meet up this Saturday at 8AM.  I was the only guy that showed up. I also left early the day we were discussing it because I had family flying into town. It is possible that they changed [...]

Flexibility, Tapouts and Submissions

I am still concentrating on mount escapes as Houston Alexander’s and Thiago Silva’s fight in UFC 78 is still present in my consciousness. While watching the above video and practicing the movements I also thought about flexibility and the role it plays in the ground game. Quite often, I get in a sticky situation when grappling and attempt a [...]