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An underhook can help you turn, rise, or connect to an opponent. Learn to judge what it changes instead of treating the grip as a finished position.

A knee shield should control distance and create your next exchange. Learn what changes with shield height, hand position, and the passer's angle.

A secondhand gi can be good value. Check its actual measurements, wear, care history, and intended use before comparing the price.

Fit lunchtime jiu-jitsu around the whole trip: class timing, changing, food, transport, and the meeting you still need to make.

The seated arm drag needs more than a wrist grip. Study the arm connection, hip movement, and reactions that open a back take or a route to top position.

Work on opening closed guard from standing: address controlling grips, understand your first step, and connect the guard break to a passing position.

Separate visible evidence from memory, trace one exchange backward, and turn a BJJ match review into a specific practice question.

Make a BJJ private lesson useful: choose a specific problem, send relevant footage, confirm booking details, and leave with a focused practice plan.

Worlds gold, ADCC gold, eight years of learning to fight, and now a belt she has defended. What Dern's run really proves about jiu-jitsu in MMA.

A traditional Humaitá academy on Fletcher Parkway, and what the lineage behind the name asks of a school that carries it.

The knee is the most injured joint in jiu-jitsu, and the back catches up with you at brown belt. What the research says, and what prevents it.

ADCC hits Kraków on September 12-13 with doubled purses, a superfight belt nobody has vacated in 17 years, and a roster missing several of its biggest names.

AOJ took the team title at the second ADCC Youth World Championship in Austin. What happened, how the kids ruleset works, and the downside worth naming.

The operator's guide to Sunday open mat: who supervises, waivers, whether to charge, and why consistency beats picking the perfect time slot.

Five light-featherweight world titles, one more than Robson Moura or his own coach. Then Pato laid his belt on the mat in Long Beach and walked off.

Keenan Cornelius won everything at purple and brown belt, invented the worm guard, then put American Jiu-Jitsu on his own sign. Inside Legion in San Diego.

The Marietta numbers get quoted everywhere. Here is what that study measured, what it didn't, and where sport BJJ turns dangerous.

Seven straight Worlds golds at 48.5 kg, 74 submissions, and not one loss by submission. A look at how Mayssa Bastos wins.

The UFC runs its own grappling promotion now. The ruleset, the champions, where it streams free, and what those exclusive contracts are doing to the sport.

Three world titles, an ADCC double medal on his first attempt, then a wrecked shoulder and 17 months away. Meregali's career is the best test case we have.

Class ends at 9:15pm and you are not hungry. What to eat before training, whether the post-training window matters, and why salt will not fix your cramps.

A judo school opened in 1949 that never closed, now 27,000 square feet of fight gym. What you gain training jiu-jitsu there, and what you give up.

The specifics no one teaches: rolling with someone 60 lbs lighter, finishing a submission you've already won, and why the room quietly ranks you.

$10,001 to show up, $1 million to win, scheduled against ADCC on purpose. How an Australian with two silver medals became the sport's loudest problem.