by Gracie Sydney | May 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
What is the most neglected part of many jiu-jitsu students training? Behind training standup, drilling is often neglected in favor of rolling. Rolling is perhaps the most fun part of jiu-jitsu and a chance to see if you can realistically apply your techniques against...
by Gracie Sydney | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
One minute we are in our best moment, taking the advantage, winning the combat and suddenly, we commit a mistake and because of that error, everything may be lost. Nobody likes to make mistakes, but unfortunately (or fortunately), some are necessary for personal...
by Gracie Sydney | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The new ‘fever’ in the gyms (since a few years ago) is the thermogenic supplements. Those ones that promise to dry your fat, improve the muscles definition and keep the lean body mass. As it were a ‘magic pill’. But we all know that all of this sounds too good to be...
by Gracie Sydney | May 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
So how do we best prepare to grapple in both worlds? Not all of us can be full time BJJ practitioners training twice a day six days a week to master both of the styles. In fact many of us can’t make it to training even one time a day six days a week. What follows is...
by Gracie Sydney | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the first part we discussed how accomplished grapplers manipulate the gi to their advantage because of better game understanding, and how gi also allows people to be sneakier with chokes. Let’s continue. I can attest first hand to the fact that these techniques and...
