Footlock, straight ankle lock, straight footlock, Achilles lock, or ashi-hishigi in judo is the position where the ankle is wrapped by arms and foot is under the armpit. It’s legal by IBJJF because there is no turning your foot in any direction and it’s also not affecting your knee.
In this video, we have a fantastic footlock that is still legal at the white belt level in the IBJJF competition.
Dean Lister’s Most Lethal Legal Straight Ankle Lock Explained
In 1993 in Oklahoma USA Rickson Gracie was on Sambo tournament. By that time Rickson already had around 300 straight victories, but on one sambo tournament, he was matched with multiple Judo and Sambo champion Ron Tripp. In that match, Rickson was thrown down by Uchi Mata and his shoulders touched the floor and he lost by those USA Sambo Tournament rules. Rickson complained about that saying that he didn’t know the rules because if he did, he would never have let himself be thrown.
Rickson was attending multiple Sambo tournaments and he was winning all the time just like in the video below.
https://youtu.be/A3l6nJ0XAnQ
This match Happened on IBJJF Tournament in Brazil. Braziliero NoGi 2017 in Black / Adult / Male / Light – Final
Checkmat’s Thiago Abreu defeated ADCC champion Rani Yahya in 46 seconds. Very soon after final match of Braziliero No Gi 2017 final started Thiago Abreu was able to sprawl on Yahya’s double leg take down attempt and caught Yahya in guillotine and put him to sleep.
Rashad Evans is UFC veterans currently fighting in UFC’s middleweight division. Recently he visited gym where Demi is training and he was very surprised when he saw her rolling.
He posted a picture of him and Demi on Instagram saying: “Good to see my buddy. She trains crazy hard! Hell, I thought she was training for a fight but they say that’s just how she rolls.. Big ups young lady!!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFHyBI3E1Nl/
As Demi Lovato was recently PROMOTED TO A BLUE BELT a lot of people were questioning her skills and wonder if she got belt just because she’s a popular singer, but as time is passing more and more people are witnessing her dedication to Brazilian Jiu jitsu.
Recently Demi Lovato showed her skills doing a takedown and armbar on a BJJ world champion Danielle Martin. Danielle commented that Demi is a great person and very passionate about Jiu Jitsu and that she’s showing great results with her hard work.
No matter what people say Demi is a great ambassador of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and I believe we’re all glad having her training and promoting our sport in a great light.
When you first start BJJ training, it can be overwhelming. There is so much going on and it’s confusing about where to start. I experienced this issue when I began training. And it is a question one of my new White Belts named Taylor had a question about. His question was essentially asking what to focus on as a new BJJ White Belt.
So in this video, I share several tips about how I personally went about Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as a brand new White Belt with little to no submissions in my useable technique arsenal. I share some tips for people who are more comfortable on the bottom playing form Full Guard and I share some options for people who are more comfortable playing from the top positions.
The general idea in this video is that if you’re new to Brazilian Jiujitsu. Your goal should be to just be able to control position as best you can and survive initially. If you can control the basic positions (holding full guard, maintaining top position, etc) then overtime you’ll find that you’ll be able to mount some sort of offense attacks afterwards.
But in the beginning, if you don’t have the ability to maintain positions properly. You’ll be hard pressed to mount any submission attacks or offense techniques.
So for all the newcomers to BJJ, I hope this video is useful to you!
Rob Renner and other 15th Dan Bujinkan Ninjutsu instructors administer the Godan test (5th Dan) testing sixth sense, intuition, and personal mastery under the supervision of the Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi Sensei with Sensei Mark Roemke.
As we noticed traditional martial arts are full of weird ways of testing for belts. From some McDojo tests where you just show up to get your belt to some where you have to show some sixth sense, chi energy etc.
In this video we’re witnessing way of testing so that you have to sense the danger, feel it without seeing it. How real this is and how could that help you in real life we don’t know but it looks interesting. Of Course, we can see some details that makes this all testing looks fake but we will let you judge it. Do you really think this is some kind of a sixth sense, intuition test or just a fake test?
Alaina Hardie is the first transgender person in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu awarded with black belt. Congratulations Alaina!
Alaina has been competing a lot in various female divisions in both Grappling and BJJ tournaments. And few years a go on “No Holds Barred” podcast, host Eddie Goldman speaks with her when Alaina Hardie publicly spoke out about her experience in BJJ as a transgender person and she said that there is no scientific evidence that transgender athletes have an unfair advantage over other athletes.
Check video below of Alaina competing and tell us what do you think about a transgender athlete competing in a women’s division of a BJJ/grappling tournaments?
https://youtu.be/DW20W5RnZnI
Joe Rogan on Female Transgender Athletes who Compete: It’s Bizzare and Ridicolous
Transgender’s Letter to BJJ Community – I’m not a Male, I Want to Compete Without Stigma
It’s really stupid to try to rob anyone but it’s even more stupid if you try to rob a BJJ school during Class. And that’s exactly what this guy did.
We can’t see what kind of punishment he got for his actions but we can see that he was probably overwhelmed by Gracie Barra guys in GIs.
Many people don’t know that Chuck Norris was one of the first people in the USA who started spreading Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the word of Gracie Family. He started training Jiu-Jitsu under Carlos Machado in the 1980s.
In this video, we can see that he organized a seminar for people in his organization called, Norris’ Tang Soo Do. The seminar was held by Gracie Family line up which consisted of Renzo, Royce, Relson, Rorion and also Carlos Machado who were sharing their knowledge to many Chuck Norris’s black belts from Tang Soo Do organization.
This video is showing how effective BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-jitsu) really is as we can see Rickson Gracie going on against one of the Chuck’s black belts. The fight doesn’t last as Norris’s black belt was taken down and choked very fast.
Joe Rogan, UFC Commentator, Actor, Comedian, BJJ Black Belt, and lifelong martial artist told a story about Gene Lebell and Steven Seagal. Rogan said that Gene told him that he choked out Steven Seagal and made him poop.
Gene LeBell is a well known Judo Master who prefers to let his skills speak for themselves. He was also one of the first televised Mixed Martial Artists who fought middleweight Boxing champ Milo Savage on December 2, 1963, and choked him unconscious in the 4th round and that was the match when he started to make a name of his self in a world of MMA.
What exactly happened and how Rogan told that story you can check in a video below.
Joe Rogan Smokes Weed with Elon Mask on Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
