Gracie Family Seminar (1990)
Gracie Family Seminar from 1990 This is some old footage of one of the early Gracie seminars. Who can you recognize from the...
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You don’t see the stand-up self defense techniques from Gracie Jiu Jitsu often enough. This is a great demonstration of some of those techniques followed by a few rolls with Pedro Sauer.
read moreRoy Dean Side Mount Escapes
I always have liked Roy Dean’s posts. Here’s a good one for side control escapes.
read moreDemian Maia Seminar
Back in September I got the opportunity to attend a seminar conducted in KC by UFC Middleweight and multi-time BJJ world champion, Demian Maia. The seminar was simply awesome! Although the techniques are far too numerous to try to recall on this post I would say that the highlight of the seminar for me was his emphasis on jiu jitsu as a self defense art. I haven’t seen this in other BJJ schools like I have seen at the Gracie Academy, so it was great to hear it being emphasized from someone outside of the GJJ Academy lineage. If he comes...
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