Most students who begin the journey of studying Gracie/ Brazilian jiu jitsu hope never to be in a situation in which they have to use a jiu jitsu technique to injure another person. The reality however, is that many techniques empower students to be able to: render others unconscious, break joints, break bones, or slam...Read More

If you can recite the above statement truthfully, you are in the good company of thousands of people who have been disappointed with their first experience with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. For some, that disappointment was manifested as humiliation or injuries. This widespread pattern begs the question of how the “gentle art” became a venue for...Read More

Your Jiu Jitsu Training Partners Are Not the Enemy We are all indebted to the partners with whom we train each night we get on the mats. It is important that we practice with our training partners using control and restraint when applying techniques. This is a basic respect will all owe each other. Most...Read More

Japanese jujitsu (traditional spelling) techniques were first used in the 1100s by the early samurai. The term “jujitsu” wasn’t even used to describe these techniques until the 1600s. Traditional jujitsu started fading into obscurity in Japan through the Edo period (1603-1868) as hundreds of years of civil war had ended and there was relative peace...Read More