BJJ We are extremely excited to announce that we have made a tee in collaboration with popular YOUTUBE CONTENT CREATOR GUY (TM) and promoter of jiu jitsu to the masses, Julien Solomita. Working with Julien was very easy and it did not take long to come up with a design. Julien loves clouds, and I have
BJJ We posted last month about Scrambler Gina Hopkins preparing to travel out to California to compete once again in the Grapplers Heart tournament (you can view our blog about their first event here). We recently made this mini-documentary featuring Gina and her husband Chris. Happy to say that Gina won her category in the Gi &
Strength & Conditioning How Strong is strong enough for Jiujitsu and MMA? Strength addicts will say you can never have enough, smart athletes however need to know if pursuing more strength worth diminising returns and time cost. We are not trying to produce strongmen, powerlifters or olympic lifters. What we want is strong powerful combat athletes. This is
BJJ Sick Threads Bro The issue of specificity in training is one that seems to bother many practitioners, obviously I want to train in a fashion that will improve my sport, be it MMA, BJJ or other combat sports. Loaded sports type drills (like weighted punching, barbell open guard playing) seem like the obvious solution to
BJJ I have had my grip trainers (I have the Navy first run in case you were wondering) a fair while now and I have found them an useful tool cycled in and out of training, the type of grip you use determines the loading so, Bunching type grips will allow for more loading that pinching
BJJ Following on from last week’s post “Choke out tendonitis”, which by the way went down a storm so thanks for liking and sharing. I want to talk about the other element to forearm and hand care for grapplers. Self Myofascial release sounds fancy but in reality is a self imposed massage of sorts. Myo meaning