4 attacks and 1 escape to slick up your triangle for training today
If the triangle isn’t the most popular move in Jiu-Jitsu, it may be the most dreaded. There isn’t a practitioner out there who likes getting…
Spider-guard
Jiu-Jitsu video: after winning SP Open, Diogo Almeida teaches X-guard sweep
GRACIEMAG.com is always pointing out which up-and-coming Jiu-Jitsu talent will rise to the top, and most of the time it’s right on the money. Such…
SP Open: Celso Venicius student to go guard heavy
The São Paulo International Open is coming up August 25-26 at José Correa Gymnasium in Barueri, greater São Paulo. The fledgling IBJJF tournament looks set…
5 videos for making your guard a lethal weapon
In the early days of the UFC, Royce Gracie took the world by storm with his Jiu-Jitsu and guard, leaving a string of bigger, heavier…
5 efficient sweeps to enrich your Jiu-Jitsu!
It's Thursday, the first day of the Jiu-Jitsu World Championship, and the team has been restless. To take the edge off, GRACIEMAG.com scoured the internet…
Familiar with the spider-guard “twister”?
The spider-guard is one of Jiu-Jitsu's showier and trickier moves, and there are plenty of maneuvers to do with it as a starting point. Guilherme…
How do you pass the spider-guard?
Maintain your base, stay alert, and learn from Kurt Osiander. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agB67UNdaw8
Study the triangle
Still working your way through basic Jiu-Jitsu geometry? Looking to brush up on your submission holds? Well, whatever your goal may be, this lesson by…
Are you an arachnophobe?
Learn to control your opponent using the spider-guard, in this detailed video for beginners. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYif23r_18
Stuck in guard? Get free and pass, with Otávio Sousa
The athlete and teacher at Gracie Barra teaches you to dribble a position that comes up often in training. You dig it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxF5HAGwMY
Learn some tricks to overcoming the spider-guard
Instructors and teachers at Gracie Barra America, in California, Caroline Gracie, Otávio Sousa and Marcio Feitosa demonstrate a few positions for overcoming the spider guard.…
Get the tapout from spider-guard!
Looking to give your opponent an even harder time from spider-guard? Put him away by the neck or the arm, as Professor Ricardo Cavalcanti teaches…