Positions, pointers, matches… see what the Jiu-Jitsu world champions do
The 2012 World Championship is going off in Long Beach, California. Last year, the aces below made it atop the podium. While we wait to…
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What we can learn from the female BJJ world champs
All of the mat wizards below made it to the top of the World Championship winners podium in 2011. This Saturday, some of them stepped…
Watch two-time world champion Cris Cyborg in Jiu-Jitsu
There isn't much the other purple belt girls can do. Cris Cyborg, who fights in MMA under the Strikeforce banner, was dominant in her weight…
Check out Rodolfo Vieira’s hard-nosed sister in action
Ana Carolina Vieira (GFTeam) made her dreams come true today when she was crowned Jiu-Jitsu World Champion as a blue belt. She captured middleweight gold,…
Letícia Ribeiro’s lessons in BJJ, workout and grit: “Victory is a consequence”
Do you know anyone who's been in 14 Jiu-Jitsu World Championships? Apart from Wellington Megaton, we mean. Well that feat figures on the résumé of…
Royler Gracie leads his Gracie Humaita team to 2012 Worlds
At the Gracie Humaita Del Mar, California location run by black belt João Faria, a very focused Royler Gracie walks into the academy to lead…
CheckMat armed and ready to claim victory at the 2012 Worlds
The CheckMat team is coming into the 2012 Worlds with guns blazing. Jiu-Jitsu black belt stars Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida, Lucas Leite, João Assis, Yuri Simoes,…
Out of Worlds, seven-time champ Hannette talks injury and seminar
First some bad news and then some good, to compensate. The bad: Jiu-Jitsu fans won't get to learn from Hannette Staack at the 2012 World…
Gurgel: “The fighters today are the best in Jiu-Jitsu history”
Alliance “general” Fábio Gurgel never before lived up to his moniker so much as he does in these days leading up to the 2012 World…
Kayron Gracie explains knee injury: “I was practicing half-guard”
Having won gold at the last Pan-American Jiu-Jitsu Championship, Kayron Gracie was earnestly training to return to the World Championship in grand style. On the…
Some 2012 BJJ Worlds statistics, odds and ends and records
2642 There are 2,642 competitors signed up for the 2012 Jiu-Jitsu World Championship, set to begin May 31 in California. That's about 400 more than…
For the evenest Worlds ever to be better, all that’s missing is you. And maybe Roger
With around 2,500 athletes signed up, the 2012 Jiu-Jitsu World Championship is set to begin on the coming 31st of May, and there's an ocean…