Renzo Gracie’s interview for Graciemag. He reveals tips for your Jiu Jitsu and how to make the most of it.

“The fighter has to have blood in his eye. Once and for all things tighten in a ring, and that’s when you really reveal your courage. Even exhausted you should keep going up. The name of this is will, and this either you have or you do not. The human being can thus act in the face of a challenge. Tired, dead, but always going forward. That’s a fantastic precept for a fighter, he just wants to. “

You should make Jiu Jitsu your main focus!

“Every Jiu-Jitsu fighter who becomes a benchmark in sport can be a champion in whatever he wants. There is nothing more challenging than our sport. If you put your head and heart in the right direction, you will have all the weapons to win. “

Embrace your Lunatic Interrior

“We strangle people, and we do it for our livelihoods. This is who we are. All we have to do is embrace our lunatic interior. It’s fun guaranteed for all the rest of this sweet life.”

Love Jiu Jitsu no matter where it evolves

“I am a lover of this system of fighting and self-defense and I honestly do not care where Jiu-Jitsu evolves, where it gets the attention we think it deserves.”

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Takanoyama Shuntarō aka Pavel Bojar is a former sumo wrestler. He is definitely not a typical Sumo wrestler and we can say that he have nothing in Common with Other Sumo Wrestlers except the Sumo techniques. He’s not dieting as they do, he doesn’t look like they do, he’s not fat as they are.

He’s much thinner and lighter than his Sumo opponents. He weighs around 100 kilos while other sumo wrestlers are having more than 150 kilos.

Takanoyama Shuntarō is originally a Judoka, but in 2000 he discovered sumo wrestling and within a year of his entry into the sport he was able to win the bronze medal at the Junior World Sumo Championship.

After that, he traveled to Japan to compete at the most challenging levels of the sport. And he was very successful.

Wikipedia on Pavel Bojar’s professional career:

He was given the shikona of Takanoyama, meaning “noble mountain.” He reached the sandanme division in January 2003, and the third highest makushita division in March 2004. He fell back to sandanme after only two tournaments but returned to makushita in March 2005 and largely remained there for the next six years, unable to break through to the elite sekitori ranks.

Takanoyama was hampered mostly by an inability to put on weight. His height of 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and weight of 90 kg (200 lb; 14 st) make him among the lightest sumo wrestlers in the modern era. In November 2008 he climbed as high as makushita 13, beating his previous high of makushita 15 set in November 2005, and he moved up to makushita 9 in January 2009. After compiling a 5-2 record in the July tournament, which included a win over the former maegashira Ryūhō, he reached a new highest rank of makushita 4 in September 2009. He produced another good score of 5-2 in May 2010 from makushita 6, which included wins over Jūmonji and Hōchiyama. In January 2011 a 6-1 score saw him promoted to a new highest rank of makushita 2 for the May “technical examination tournament.” There he scored 5-2, guaranteeing promotion to the jūryō division for July. When the banzuke was released on June 27, Takanoyama was at #5 West, the tenth highest rank in the 26 man division. It took him 57 tournaments from his professional debut to reach jūryō, the second slowest among foreign-born wrestlers after the Brazilian Wakaazuma.

He had a successful jūryō debut, winning seven of his first eight bouts and finishing on 10-5. This earned him an immediate promotion to the top makuuchi division for the September 2011, only the third time since the six tournaments a year system was established in 1958 that a jūryō debutant has achieved this (the other two were Daikiko and Ichihara). Weighing in before the tournament at just 98 kg (216 lb; 15.4 st), he is the first wrestler under 100 kilos in the top division since Mainoumi in 1997.

Takanoyama had a difficult start to his makuuchi career, losing his first five matches and then only winning the sixth when his opponent inadvertently stepped out of the ring first (isamiashi). However, he picked up a legitimate win on Day 7, downing the 166 kg Yoshiazuma with a hooking inner thigh throw (kakenage) and instantly becoming a favorite with the tournament crowd. He finished on 5-10, which sent him back to jūryō in November, but he responded with a 9-6 record which returned him immediately to the top division for the January 2012 tournament. He was unable to produce a kachi-koshi score in either January or March, but in the May tournament, he managed an 11-4 record in jūryō which earned him a 2nd place and a return to the makuuchi division in the July tournament. However, he had yet to earn a winning record in five tournaments in makuuchi and was demoted to jūryō once again for November. His 7–8 record in July 2013 was his seventh consecutive losing score, pushing him towards the bottom of the jūryō division. In September 2013, he finished on 5-10, his weakest performance in jūryō so far, which sent him back to makushita 2 for the November tournament. Afterward, he skirted the border between the two divisions, being relegated twice and promoted twice.

Retirement

Takanoyama announced his retirement after the July 2014 tournament, where he had withdrawn after losing his first match, guaranteeing a large fall down the makushita division. He said, “I mount the dohyo to win, and I can no longer win. He indicated that he would return to the Czech Republic with his family, and try to make use of his Japanese language skills. Takanoyama’s danpatsu-shiki or retirement ceremony was held at his stable on 7 September 2014.

BJJ Competition Tips: Absolute Division For Small People

Did You Lose at Jiu-Jitsu Tournament? No Big Deal!

Roger Gracie just retired from competition but for many BJJ practitioners he’s the GOAT of BJJ and that will never change.

In this interview he shares his opinion on losing matches and how he feels about it. As we can see he just don’t accept defeat.

Recently he explained why he thinks he’s so good in Jiu Jitsu and in competition:

“My goal was never to win tournaments, to bring medals. It was to be the best that I could be. I have a very strong belief in me and that is probably my biggest weapon. I don’t accept defeat, so for me defeat is unacceptable. I give my 110% if I have to.“

When asked do you use visualization Roger Gracie replied:

“I use visualization since I know I’m fighting. I’m already visualizing me winning, i’m tapping my opponent in every possible way and that helps a lot”

Roger was also asked about advice for BJJ practitioners:

“You need to be committed. Set yourself a goals, believe that’s possible and go after it.”

https://bjj-world.com/15-fastest-black-belt-promotions-history-bjj/

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Recently, a boy named Keaton Jones was a victim of bullying and his mother, Kimberly Jones, puts a video of her son describing detailing the bullying that he experienced at school.
As we can see in a video Bullies were calling this boy ugly, saying to him he have no friends and all other things to mess up his psyche.

That was enough for UFC president Dana White to repost a video of Keaton Jones and invite him to UFC Headquarters in Las Vegas to hang out there. Dana is also looking for anyone who knows this boy or his mother to contact him, so he’s able to reach them.

“Meet Keaton Jones a very smart little boy who is being bullied at school. This video is heartbreaking!! I want to bring Keaton to Vegas and hang out at UFC Headquarters. If anyone knows how i can reach the family please let me know. Thank u everyone”

Meet Keaton Jones a very smart little boy who is being bullied at school. This video is heartbreaking!! I want to bring Keaton to Vegas and hang out at UFC Headquarters. If anyone knows how i can reach the family please let me know. Thank u everyone pic.twitter.com/BR8c4ldDFc

— danawhite (@danawhite) December 10, 2017

UPDATE:

Dana white posts on his twitter account:

“Thank u all for helping try to find Keaton. 1000% greatest post and response in my social media history. This kid is special and we all feel it. Dying to meet him!!”

Thank u all for helping try to find Keaton. 1000% greatest post and response in my social media history. This kid is special and we all feel it. Dying to meet him!!

— danawhite (@danawhite) December 10, 2017

Dana White was able to find a kid and looks like this story will have a happy ending.

Good Luck Keaton Jones. It’s time for you to overcome all the problems you were facing till now.

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Joanna Jedrzejczyk weight vutting video showed up on various sites. The video contains material of her losing weight for her first title defense in the UFC which she had two years ago.

She was cutting weight for her match against Jessica Penna for their bout in summer of 2015. It was probably her best fight in UFC’s career, but before she had gone through the hell and back, with a short stay in one of the worst circles.

At the beginning, we see Joanna during the teasing, and by that way we listen to her self-admiration, or an attempt to turn her thoughts away from what she feels right now. Even hough she is laying on the floor, she is extremely hyperactive, which is just a proof of how she really feels. She could not hide her face in the other footage where we watch her in the tub and where she was no longer trying to encourage herself. She’s just trying to get through pain and endure the end of the process.

It’s not surprising that this video came out the same day Joanna announced that she had left the team of nutritionists mentioning that she almost died while weight cutting for the fight against Rose Namajunas.

Of course, we can not be sure what’s the real reson or the truth or the search for the reasons for her first defeat in the MMA career. But what is certain is that UFC banned this video to saw the light of the day two and half years ago. But now he has appeared and serves as another example of how much danger process weight cutting really is.

It should be the best for everyone to listen to advice from Joanna ‘s new team: “New video emerges of the drastic lengths Joanna Jędrzejczyk went to making weight in 2015. Back in a days UFC PR staff told us to delete it or else… STOP FIGHTERS MAKING WEIGHT!”

https://youtu.be/F2b18dESZlA

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KASAI Pro is the tournament for Jiu-Jitsu’s most decorated names.  It contains of eight-man No Gi Tournament to crown KaSAI’s inaugural World Lightweight Champion.

On Kasai Pro’s superfight Gordon Ryan was matched against Yuri Simoes. They’re both  ADCC 2017 medalists with Gordon Ryan winning ADCC division Gold and Absolute silver while Yuri took home ADCC’s gold in his weight division, but didn’t compete in Absolute due to injury.

The match between these two “giants” started very aggressively from both sides. Gordon sat down to butterfly guard while trying to get Yuri into it. Gordon managed to get Yuri into front headlock. He tried to come to yuri’s back but with no success. They both ended up standing with Yuri pulling half guard after short amount of time.

Yuri did a great job pulling Gordon into his deep half guard but he didn’t manage to use it in his favor. Gordon took advantage of Yuri’s Half Guard and tried to get Yuri in a triangle choke but with no success.

The beautiful move happened after they both ended standing. Gordon Ryan did an Uchi Mata takedown on Yuri and immediately tried to apply kimura, but again, with no success.

Soon after that Gordon ended up on the bottom playing an open guard with yuri on top trying some hard pressure passes. Gordon knowing very well what Yuri is trying managed to get on Yuri’s back. From there Gordon locks body triangle trapping Yuri’s arms and submitting him with Rear Naked Choke with 18 seconds left to the end of a match.

Winner: Gordon Ryan via Rear Naked Choke

Check out the results from Kasai Pro event including Gordon Ryan, AJ Agazarm, Gianni Grippo and others on THIS LINK.

Kasai PRO results

Garry Tonon Defeats AJ Agazarm on Kasai Pro – Video

Eight man KASAI PRO tournament is a great tournament with most decorated names of todays Jiu Jitsu. They’re fighting for inaugural KASAI World Light Weight Champion.
This event offered some great fights and a lot of exictment and it wasn’t predictable at all.

This Kasai Pro Event took place in New York on December 9 at the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse in Brooklyn.

The most interesting part was when in the final bout of the tournament Gianny Grippo was able to secure his victory against Garry Tonon by points.

In a super fight between Gordon Ryan and Yuri Simoes, Gordon managed to submit Yuri Via RNC Choke.

Eight-Man Tournament for the KASAI World Lightweight Championship and $8,000:
Garry Tonon (Group B)
Mansher Khera (Group B)
Gianni Grippo (Group A)
Celso Vinicius (Group A)
AJ Agazarm (Group B)
‘Junny’ Ocasio (Group A)
Enrico Cocco (Group A)
Renato Canuto (Group B)

Round 1 Group A:
Gianni Grippo vs. Enrico Cocco: Draw (1 point each).
‘Junny’ Ocasio vs. Celso Vinicius: Draw ( 1 point each).

Round 1 Group B:
Garry Tonon vs. Mansher Khera: Draw (1 point each).
AJ Agazarm vs. Renato Canuto: Draw (1 point each).

Round 2 Group A:
Enrico Cocco vs. ‘Junny’ Ocasio: Draw (1 point each).
Celso Vinicius vs. Gianni Grippo: Draw (1 point each).

Round 2 Group B:
Renato Canuto vs. Mansher Khera: winner by points Renato Canuto (earns 2 points).
AJ Agazarm vs. Garry Tonon: winner by points Gary Tonon (earns 2 points).

Round 3 Group A:
Enrico Cocco vs. Celso Vinicius: winner by guillotine choke Celso Vinicius (earns 3 points).
Gianni Grippo vs. ‘Junny’ Ocasio: Draw (1 point each).

Round 3 Group B:
Gary Tonon vs. Renato Canuto: winner by points Renato Canuto (earns 2 points).
Mansher Khera vs. AJ Agazarm: winner by points Mansher Khera (earns 2 points).

3rd Place Finisher:
Gary Tonon vs. Gianni Grippo: winner by points Gianni Grippo.

FINALS:
Celso Vinicius (Group A) vs. Renato Canuto (Group B): winner by judges decision Renato Canuto.

Main Card Middleweight Superfight:
Murilo Santana vs. Craig Jones: winner by negative points Murilo Santana.

Main Card Women’s Featherweight Fight:
Raquel Pa’aluhi Canuto vs. Caitlin Huggins: winner by points Raquel Pa’aluhi Canuto.

KASAI Pro is the tournament for Jiu-Jitsu’s most decorated names.  It’s contains of eight-man No Gi Tournament to crown KaSAI’s inaugural World Lightweight Champion

Garry Tonon and AJ Agazarm met each other on tournaments many times before and Garry Tonon was always a winner. And this time they met on Kasai Pro there wasn’t any change. Gordon Ryan won against AJ Agazaram Again!

Last time they fought Aj Agazarm suffered a knee injury while avoiding to tap on Garry’s tight knee bar. The knee bar was very tight but history between these guys is so big that looks like tapping is not an option.

In this match we could see some early arm drags from Garry which sent AJ agazarm of the mat, AJ’s shootings for single leg and Garry’s Kimura attempt.

The most interesting part of the match was when Garry went for flying triangle and managed to lock it. It really looked like he’ll be able to finish it. But, somehow, AJ Agazarm was able to pull his head out of it.

After Garry’s failed triangle attempt he managed to stay on top in Aj Agazarms Knee Shield Guard earning himself two points.

At the end of the match Garry hit a very good ankle pick

Garry wasn’t able to do some serious threat this time on AJ Agazarm. As Kasai Pro uses IBJJF Rules Garry managed to secure himself a victory by points.

You can check the full results of Kasai Pro and a winner of Gordon Ryan vs Yuri Simoes bout HERE:

Kasai PRO results

Gordon Ryan Submits Yuri Simoes in last 18 Seconds on Kasai PRO

24-year-old Mackenzie Dern is still unbeaten in her MMA carrer. She just racks up her victories where ever she shows up. After the Invicta FC debut versus Kaline Mendeiros she’s 5-0 in her MMA carrer.

Mackenzie Dern is also one of the biggest names in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and 4 times BJJ World Champion.

On Friday night she was very successful against mma veteran Kaline Medeiros ib the co-main event of Invicta FC 26 in Kansas city.

In the third round of Invicta FC 26 at the 4:45 mark Mackenzie locked up an armbar on Kaline Medeiros. She was looking very good throughout the whole fight and she was clearly winning the first two rounds. WE can’t say that Veteran Kaline was an easy match up for Young Mackenzie Dern but MacKenziue dern again proved that she’s a new force in women MMA and that soon everyone will be in huge problems with her.

You can watch the video of MacKenzie Dern’s Submission over Kaline Medeiros in a video below.

Welcome to @InvictaFights @MackenzieDern!!! Incredible performance! #InvictaFC26 pic.twitter.com/WozSRFUxlV

— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) December 9, 2017

What’s more important is that Mackenzie Dern is much better in a stand up. It’s not perfect, but it’s getting better fight after fight. She has no problems engaging in full stand up fight using her Muay Thai skills. She even said that her main plan for this fight wasn’t going full on takedowns and on the ground.

Every once in a while, we can see a video on the internet that shows us what happens when police officers don’t have any idea on how to control a suspect.

When the officers try to arrest the man, and he resists, officers usually go for punches, kicks, teasers and even using their gun. But the reality is, with a bit of Jiu Jitsu training they would avoid using any brute force and they would be able to control their suspects without any problems. Efficient control of the suspect would result in less weapon use, less deaths and much less problems for the officers.

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