This was such a hilarious moment with a host unable to hold the laugh. Well, who wouldn’t laugh at his?
The main question is, are all the bricks like this in all those presentations that we watch? Luckily there are no bricks in BJJ and grappling martial arts 🙂
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Eddie Bravo promoted Tony Ferguson to a 10th Planet Black belt and he gave him his belt. The belt that Jean Jacques Machado gave to Eddie Bravo after 2003 ADCC
Hereis what Eddie said: “he day I got back to Jean Jacques Academy after 2003 ADCC, he gave me the black belt off his waist. Tonight I gave it to Tony Ferguson”
Tony is now UFC’s interim Lightweight champion, but before he became UFC champion he said that BJJ Black Belt means much more to him than UFC title:
“I’m more interested in receiving my black belt from Eddie Bravo’s 10th Planet jiu-jitsu system than the UFC belt right now. The [UFC] belt is tarnished, man. I feel like the belt has been in so many different hands, it’s so polluted. It needs to be recycled by the time I get there.”
“I think everybody wants me to get the title, but for me, I don’t do what everybody else wants me to do. I’m a leader, not a follower, man. I’m a super fighter. I create super fights. The people who actually give me the righteous fights are the ones who are going to be the best for me, give or take whether it’s a title fight. I really don’t give a [expletive]. I really don’t.”
Congratulations Tony on your Black belt!
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On October 23, 1951, Hélio Gracie faced Masahiko Kimura who outweighed him by nearly 80 lbs. It was the first time that a jiu-jitsu world championship match would be held outside of Japan.
In a video below Rener talks us through his grandfather’s famous match with Kimura.
“After several challenge matches in Brazil Grand Master Helio Gracie found out that the best Japanese Jiu-Jitsu fighter ever Masahiko Kimura was gonna be in Brazil so Grand Master Helio Challenged him to a match!
Kimura said! Listen Helio, You’re good but not good enough to fight me! Instead, I’m gonna have you fight number 2 Japanese Jiu-Jitsu Fighter a guy named Kato and Kato will beat you just as easy as I would!
Grand Master Helio Gracie fought Kato and after 6 minutes choked Kato out.
So when Kato went unconscious the Japanese Champ had no choice but to accept a challenge from Helio.
After the fight, Kimura went to Gracie Academy and invited Helio to teach Jiu-Jitsu in the imperial academy in Japan, but after a consideration, Helio Declined it.”
Masahiko Kimura was a Japanese judoka and professional wrestler who is widely considered one of the greatest judokas of all time. In Japan, he is known for the controversial match he had with Rikidōzan.
Here is Kimura’s review of the “Kimura vs Helio” event and the stuff we didn’t know or we knew little about.
“20,000 people came to see the bout including President of Brazil. Helio was 180cm [5’11”] and 80 kg [176#]. When I entered the stadium, I found a coffin. I asked what it was. I was told, “This is for Kimura. Helio brought this in.” It was so funny that I almost burst into laughter. As I approached the ring, raw eggs were thrown at me. The gong rang. Helio grabbed me by both lapels and attacked me with O-soto-gari and Kouchi-Gari. But they did not move me at all. Now it’s my turn. I blew him away up in the air by O-Uchi-gari, Harai-Goshi, Uchimata, Ippon-seoi. At about 10 minute mark, I threw him by O-soto-gari. I intended to cause a concussion. But since the mat was so soft that it did not have much impact on him. While continuing to throw him, I was thinking of a finishing method. I threw him by O-Soto-gari again. As soon as Helio fell, I pinned him by Kuzure-kami-Shiho-gatame. I held still for 2 or 3 minutes and then tried to smother him by belly. Helio shook his head trying to breathe. He could not take it any longer and tried to push up my body extending his left arm. That moment, I grabbed his left wrist with my right hand and twisted up his arm. I applied Udegarami. I thought he would surrender immediately. But Helio would not tap the mat. I had no choice but keep on twisting the arm. The stadium became quiet. The bone of his arm was coming close to the breaking point. Finally, the sound of bone breaking echoed throughout the stadium. Helio still did not surrender. His left arm was already powerless. Under this rule, I had no choice but twist the arm again. There was plenty of time left. I twisted the left arm again. Another bone was broken. Helio still did not tap. When I tried to twist the arm once more, a white towel was thrown in. I won by TKO. My hand was raised high. Japanese Brazilians rushed into the ring and tossed me up in the air. On the other hand, Helio let his left arm hang and looked very sad withstanding the pain.”
Anyway, Helio will remain a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Legend forever! /respect
In this video I go over various head control concepts. Head control is a major method of control, we often hear that when you control the head you can control the entire body. In this video I go over when and how to control the head from the bottom and top position by narrating a live roll.
This video is meant for student with at least 6 months of experience and is targeted towards those who understand the basics of both guillotine and darce. These techniques are what I like to refer to as Universal Jiu-Jitsu, they’re effective in both gi and no gi and even more importantly they have many times proven to be effective in Mma.
The guys name KungfuCowboy posts it on Reddit about the random guy coming to a gym and just challenges one of the ammy heavyweight fighters to a grappling match.
“This other random guy came in off the street and challenged one of our Heavyweight ammy fighters last night. It did not go well for him, but our Heavyweight played nicely and didn’t kill him.
So as I’m rolling in this morning class, the guy from the previous night shows back up with another of his friends who claimed to be a “real good wrestler”. I guess he thought his buddy would put me in my place.
Obviously, that didn’t happen, but we do admire the balls on these two guys from Team Honey Badger. We’ve invited them to come train with us for free for the duration of their visit in town. I really hope they come back in tonight. What they lack in talent, then more than makeup for in heart and sheer determination.”
WARNING: This is Why Jiu-Jitsu is NOT for Everyone. BJJ in Wrong Hands!
4 FAKE BJJ Black Belts that will piss you off and make you laugh at the same time!
This is one helpful technique on how to defeat High Level Judokas!
Jigoro Kano: To ask may be but a moment’s shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
Dominique Bell: This position is really strong. Like, really really strong. I consider it almost a checkmate move if you enter it completely.
That being said, I want you guys to be careful with it. This move is like a new, non FDA approved product on the market. Nobody really uses it (I’ve only seen Victor Estima using this, that’s where I saw it) and we don’t know the long term risks yet. Remember the video of the kid getting stacked and being paralyzed? I’m personally super careful being stacked now since realizing the danger there.
We can see a lot of well known Black Belts saying that they never asked their professor about a belt. They would just train hard and belts would come. So asking your instructor about the belt became a taboo and something you should never ask your instructor about.
And I believe this is wrong. Belts are something you should talk about with your instructor. Sometimes it’s not your fault that you don’t get or you don’t deserve a new belt. Maybe it’s about your instructor and maybe it’s his fault you don’t have a belt yet.
Your instructor is just a human being and not some supernatural creature knowing everything in every moment and a person who can’t make mistakes? And yes, maybe it’s a mistake of your instructor that you didn’t get a new belt for a long time.
Maybe your instructor doesn’t like you or he doesn’t like the way you behave at the gym or outside of the gym.
Are you sure your instructor just have your technique in his mind and how well you do in sparring with other guys?
Are you acting disrespectful to him or other guys?
He can have a lot of other reasons to give you or not to give you a new belt and it’s on you to find out what are the reasons and what is it that you’re doing wrong.
Well, we can’t avoid a fact that your instructor might be a douche and you should leave that gym as fast as possible. And if you’re interested how to recognize that read this article: Reasons why your instructor sucks
But, most of the time your instructor is right about your promotion. Most of the time you don’t deserve the belt you want for a numerous reasons. Reasons like you’re not training consistently, or you just want to spar so you progress slower or you’re just not talented enough to progress etc. It doesn’t really matter what’s the reason as long as you know what’s the reason.
Yes, you have to know what you’re doing wrong if you’re doing something wrong and if you can’t find it out by yourself, your instructor is the only person who can give you an answer to that. So go and ask him!
We could hear many times in our lives that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. While that is the truth in most cases, it’s not really in this case. If you ask your professor questions like “when will you give me my belt” it really is a stupid question.
You should never ask your professor about when will you get the belt, but what do you have to do to EARN the belt. If your instructor gives you an answer like, “just train”, and you’re white belt training consistently for 4 years that means he’s a douche and he doesn’t really care.
Your instructor should give you an honest answers and honest reasons! Whether you like them or not you should accept them and work on your problems or mistakes that you’re doing. Being honest with yourself is a great way to improve in Jiu Jitsu too.
But, for example, if he tells you that you’re doing some technique or some concept wrong for the last 3 years and he never told you anything about it before feel free to tell him he’s a douche because that’s something you’re paying him for the last three years. And he’s definitely in THIS category then.
I guess you got the point. Communicate with your instructor as much as possible and do your best in a training session and rewards will come. Sooner or later doesn’t really matter as BJJ is a life long journey so just enjoy it.
Jack Donovan
Ricardo De La Riva is a Jiu-Jitsu Legend and one of the most innovative Jiu Jitsu Competitors and guard players ever. He’s Black Belt under Carlos Gracie. Ricardo De La Riva is mostly known for revolutionizing now well-known “De La Riva Guard” originally called “guarda pudim”. He was also known Jiu-Jitsu Instructor with several well-known Jiu-Jitsu Black Belts like Rogerio Nogueira, Helvecio Penna, and many others.
In this Video Ricardo De La Riva is competing against Royler Gracie. Royler is a legendary Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and mixed martial artist. He’s the son of Helio Gracie and also a founder and leader of Gracie Humaita Academy.
And that’s it. Garry Tonon is now a MMA FIGHTER just like he announced some time a go.
“It’s official, I will be attempting to make feather weight for nogi worlds this year. I plan to have an MMA fight within a year and I will likely be fighting 145 so this will be a good test to see if i can handle the cut.”
ONE FC is the largest MMA promotion in Asia. This is not his first contact with ONE Championship as he had competed in ONE Championship in a super fight against Shinya Aoki and he won via heel hook. But his contract now is in this promotion is pure MMA. He could be the ONE C’s major player in welterweight division.
Here is what Tonon said about his ONE Championship contract:
“I am thrilled to be able to finally announce my arrival in ONE Championship. “It is the natural evolution in my career as a grappler. I have achieved all that I have set out to do in the world of jiu-jitsu, and now I am ready to take on a new challenge. I am excited to begin my ONE Championship career and proud to showcase my skills on the biggest global stage of competition.”
Good luck Tonon and we wish you all the best in your MMA career. We know you’ll be GREAT!
