The wife of Professor João Crus was recently diagnosed with cervical cancer and will soon undergo surgery. At this trying time, Cruz did what all fighters learn to do over the years of Jiu-Jitsu: he pulled up his sleeves and went to battle.
"The guard is the salvation of the weak," said Rilion Gracie in a GRACIEMAG interview in February 2009. Well today, after wins from stars Fabricio Werdum (in Strikeforce) and Anderson Silva (in the UFC), everyone seems to understand a little better just how important Jiu-Jitsu's leg game is in a fight situations.
Well before the winning submissions of Fabricio Werdum (over all-powerful Fedor) and Anderson Silva (over Sonnen), your most complete magazine on Jiu-Jitsu already stressed the importance of the guard. Check it out, study it and learn.
GRACIEMAG.com heard Rafael Mendes’s version on the no-time limit match to the finish that a group of investors would like to make for October, against…