Author name: Alex

I’ve noticed a pattern, especially in point based tournaments. I call it the “ugly 2”. Often, the guard player hustles and finds a way to the top and reverses the position. If you ask them the name of the sweep, they won’t be able to tell. It’s a fusion of a few, and through willpower […]

Takedowns in BJJ are somehow a taboo subject.  Sometime in the early 90s, a group of Brazilian pioneers of our sport sat down at a table and deemed takedowns to be worth two points. They structured the rules and regulations for competitive BJJ (IBJJF) and till this day the whole world follows suit. In almost

Coming up through the ranks, when we would line up in beginning of class for the warmup, I would scan the room and plan out who I would ask to roll and in what order. Certain people I would prefer to warm up with, and others who I knew I would have “gym wars” with

I always have great talks with my jungle brother, Jason. One thing that he told me that I wrote down is an old saying. “When pointing a finger at someone, there are three pointed back at you.” Generally, what we accuse others and what bothers us in others, is oftentimes a reflection of what and

Before starting BJJ, I was walking at around 180 lbs. About 6 months in, I naturally lost about 30 and got down to 150. 150lbs is a weird in between in BJJ, because you are  slightly small for featherweight and light feather seams feasible as it’s only 11-12 lbs away but that quickly becomes very