Positional sparring is a fantastic way to sharpen your execution of a technique. Way more important than Free Rolling and that's n...

How to escape the triangle choke from guard: Moving upstream is a marketing term. It can easily be explained with the analogy of a ...

You didn't think Helio rolled competitively every day did you? BJJ works, but that of course goes both ways. When I’m rolling c...

Stuck? In his fantastic book : Jiu-jitsu University: The Daddy of BJJ books! , Saulo Ribeiro tells a story about his meeting with Heli...

Our advanced BJJ sessions at the Labs - BJJ always include a huge chunk of sparring / rolling. The objective is not to win every grapplin...

In BJJ, NoGi submission werestling or MMA, when you pass your opponent's guard, take the side then mount, you have really demonstrated ...

How can you defeat your opponent's defences? Are you struggling to make your jiu jitsu submissions work? Do you find yourself attempting...

As I promised here , this is my review of Roy Dean's latest volume: Brown Belt Requirements. "After all, this is your pers...

In a recent email from Stephan Kesting he said: “If you've already purchased ' How to Defeat the Bigger, Stronger Opponent ' t...

We all want to become really good at this enigma that is BJJ, but are we doing all we can to make the best out of our training on the grapp...

“See Construction” Please read the above phrase 5 times in your head. Now please read it again 3 times loud enough for you to hear your ...

I have decided to make and post more videos. They really help me get my point across but more importantly, they help start a discussion from...

Put a basketball on the ground. On it put: A. A plank of wood. B. A wet towel*. Sometimes in BJJ / Grappling you need to be the plank o...

It's important to treat it as that: auxiliary. If the intensity, duration or frequency of there sessions has a negative effect on your ...

We've recently introduced a rotating curriculum for the fundamentals sessions at the Labs-BJJ . Last- and this week's themes are ma...

One thought I always keep in the background when I'm rolling / drilling is: is this the most efficient way to do what I'm doing? Whi...

Last Monday, one of our up and coming BJJ white belts said to me: why do you place more importance on awareness than on techniques? I was ve...

If you are employed in a job you may have a job description (JD) explaining what you have to do. It may or may not be very precise and deta...

This is inspired by the current poll at the Fightworks Podcast: " What Percentage of Sport Jiu-Jitsu Techniques Are Street or Self Def...

Are your BJJ / Grappling mat sessions busy and high-paced from start to finish? Would you say that you are constantly active? Are they pr...