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March 16

Great time with Gracie Barra Wooands friend visiting GB San Antonio,TX Fabiana Borges

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March 17

Week 1 (Mar 17 - 23, 2024):

In Week 1, we're studying:

➡️GROUND STRIKE

➡️TRANSITION TO THE GUARD OR SACRIFICE THROW

➡️GUARD

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If you levelled up just one aspect of your game, which position would have the biggest impact on improving your Jiu-Jitsu?

GB Online has introduced Bjj instructional video playlists assembled from the hundreds of Bjj instructional videos on GB Online - for the most important positions for your Jiu-Jitsu game.

What do you need to work on?

This is an important question for all intermediate level Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu students to ask!

If you really improved your guard retention skills, would that missing piece take your overall game to a higher level? How about your takedown game? It's a notorious weakness for many Jiu-Jitsu students. Or maybe you don't feel particularly confident in your pressure passing skills.

Strengthening a specific hole in your game is one of the best ways better your overall rolling performance. We encounter the same problems again and again until we find a technical solution to the problem. A period of a month or more of focus on a specific area of your Jiu-Jitsu game will lift your entire game.

Watching BJJ instructional videos is a great and convenient way to obtain ideas and techniques to improve a specific area.

GB Online has created curated, position focused technique video playlists to help Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu students identify areas of interest and provide you with Gracie Barra video techniques to inject some fresh thinking and give you techniques that will make a difference.

GB Online Curated Playlists 

Pulling Guard 101
Scissor Sweeps - Basics And Beyond
Knee Slice Guard Pass
Taking The Back From The Guard
How To Escape Side Control
Dominate The Side Mount
Armbar Mastery
The Kimura
Triangle Choke
The Arm Triangle Choke
The Outside Hook Guard Game
Tripping Point - The Inside Trip

So again we pose the question - If you levelled up just one aspect of your game, which position would have have the biggest impact on improving your Jiu-Jitsu?

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March 01

On my 47th Birthday trained a fantastic evening NoGi class with my Professor…Fabiana Borges

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February 29
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The Principles of Jiu-Jitsu Behind The Techniques with Professor Braulio' Estima

"Remember that every technique is a specific way to make a certain principle of Jiu-Jitsu work."
Professor Braulio Estima

As a student of Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu, you probably have a comprehensive collection of your favorite BJJ techniques for every position on the ground. But have you ever considered the underlying principles behind your favorite techniques? The "why" they work behind any individual move?

Professor Braulio Estima, a multiple times World and ADCC champion, says that if we understand the universal principles that make those techniques work on bigger, stronger opponents, we can look to apply them to all areas of our Jiu-Jitsu games. This is one of the differences between how a Blue belt and a high-level Black belt use the same technique.

GB Online has released two new video series by Professor Braulio on Side Control Pressure and the Armbar from the Guard, where he illustrates the principles that he applies to techniques that you likely already know...but are not yet executing at the level of a World Champion black belt.

Professor Braulio introduces two main Jiu-Jitsu principles in each of the seminars: The Head of the Snake (which you might remember from his GB3 No-Gi curriculum), and the Replacement Principle.

The Importance of Principles 
In the new GB Online video release - No-Gi Side Mount Seminar: Control Your Opponent With Pressure by Braulio Estima at GB Ocotillo, Professor Braulio likens Jiu-Jitsu to learning a language. If we learn the underlying principles (rules of grammar and vocabulary) of Jiu-Jitsu, we can make our own systems (form complete sentences and conversations) for our individual games.

Guard Armbar Concepts in GB Scottsdale
Professor Braulio focuses on the "language to fight Jiu-Jitsu." How to look at Jiu-Jitsu through principles and concepts. Instead of approaching Jiu-Jitsu through ready-made systems - such as a specific sweep for Half-Guard bottom. Professor Braulio believes that when we understand the underlying Jiu-Jitsu language, the student can create any kind of system according to their individual body type and position.

Professor Braulio uses the Armbar from the guard technique as the basis for this seminar and illustrates how the Jiu-Jitsu principles are applied in performing the specific submission.

By studying the Armbar, students will understand how to apply the underlying principles to ANY technique in their game.

In the opening message of the seminar - Armbar Principles, Professor Braulio asks the students if they know the main principles behind the Armbar. "What makes the person tap?"

Professor Braulio explains that the mechanics behind the Armbar are physics - pressure on the opponent's elbow while controlling the opponent's hand and shoulder. The head or neck is NOT the focus.

Professor Braulio demonstrates the Armbar from the guard with the opponent stacking to defend.

Head of the Snake Principle - To control any of the opponent's limbs, if you can control the end of the limb - the hand or foot - you can control the entire limb. Professor Braulio says. "Wherever my head goes...my body follows." The same applies to the hand and foot.

The Head Of The Snake
This principle of Jiu-Jitsu holds that by controlling the end of the limb - this applies to the hand, the foot, and the opponent's head - you gain control over the entire limb or upper body. Professor Braulio illustrates the principle with several examples of controlling the opponent's movements in the seminar video.

"Every big problem never began as a big problem." Professor Braulio uses the metaphor of a fire. A big fire started as a small fire. The idea is that if Professor Braulio can stop the opponent's escape by using this principle to control the end of the limb, he will prevent the situation from getting worse and totally control the opponent's ability to escape.

Replacement Principle
The Replacement Principle is about exchanging grips, wedges, blocks, and other forms of control on the opponent's limbs as you move through the steps of a technique and progress your position. Professor Braulio reminds us that you can not release the control as you progress, as the opponent will seize the opportunity to escape. Maintain control at all times as you adjust your position by replacing one form of control with another.

In applying the Replacement principle to the Side Mount. Professor Braulio explains how he progresses the position by increments. To progress the position, Professor Braulio, step by step, nullifies the opponent's leverage and eliminates their ability to escape.

Pay attention in the video to how Professor Braulio illustrates the specific details of the most efficient leverage to dominate and control the opponent's limbs.

In the Armbar videos, Professor Braulio pushes the opponent's head away and then uses his Replacement Principle to move his leg over the opponent's head to maintain the distance. The Replacement Principle is about exchanging controls as you progress your transition. Do not allow problems to start with the opponent removing their elbow from the control.

Professor Braulio corrects the left hand, pushing the opponent's neck instead of the opponent's head. A bow and arrow-like push/pull action is used to straighten the opponent's arm.

Important detail: Replacement Principle of switching the straight arm pushing the opponent's head away with his leg over the opponent's head. This prevents the opponent's stacking defense.

In these two seminar series videos, Professor Braulio also shows several other general concepts and how they are applied to Pressure Side Mount and the Armlock from the guard.

The big takeaway is that as Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu students understand the principles, they can look at how they perform ALL of their favorite techniques, more deeply understand why they work, and increase their effectiveness.

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Video short GBO Principles ...

Principles Of The Armbar Seminar- Braulio Estima
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March 13

Professor Braulio Estima on Heelhook Safety

If you only attend the gi classes at your Jiu-Jitsu school, you likely have not had a lot of instruction in the Heelhook submission. The Heelhook is known to be one of the most dangerous leg locks due to the serious nature of a knee injury should it go wrong. And thus, it is prohibited in many GB classes.

Yet the sport of No-Gi submission grappling is exploding in popularity worldwide, and the game of leg locks and, more specifically - Heelhooks is near the top as far as winning strategies go. If you want to win in No-Gi competition, you are going to need to know the Heelhook game.

If the Heelhook game is so dangerous, how do we train the Heelhook safely so we can develop our knowledge in the leg lock game?

Top GB instructor Professor Braulio Estima tackles this very topic in his recent video instructional series on GB Online - Heel Hook Safety By Braulio Estima. Professor Braulio shows the mechanics of the Outside and Inside Heelhooks, how to safely attack the Heelhook on your training partners in a way that minimizes the possibility of injury, and, as importantly, how to react and defend when you are being attacked with a Heelhook submission. How to develop your leg lock game while being safe.

Attacking and escaping the Heelhook 

The video series covers two main areas of training Heelhooks: How to safely apply the Heelhook and keep your training partners safe and how to defend the Heelhook and know when to tap and avoid injuries.

How to apply a Heelhook without injuring your training partners

Professor Braulio teaches the principle of the "Zero point." He says first to bring the joint that you are attacking to the zero point or the end of the natural range of motion, then gradually apply the force for the actual submission.

Professor Braulio illustrates this concept of controlling the joint with the straight Armbar in one of the videos. Instead of ballistically reaping on the opponent's arm, Professor Braulio looks to slowly and completely extend the joint to the zero point and only then apply pressure for the lock. This approach is all about full control of the opponent's joint and preventing their escape movement. The submission is a secondary, more efficient application of additional pressure once the joint is at the zero point. 

In the video series, Professor Braulio goes into depth on the proper mechanics of the Inside Heelhook and Outside Heelhook and shows many advanced technical details.

When should I tap to a Heelhook?

How do we know when we should tap or continue to fight? Professor Braulio believes that what makes the Heelhook the most dangerous technique - if we do not accept our own physical limits - and continue to resist when the opponent has our limb at the zero point.

Professor Braulio says that our training partners have a responsibility to take care of their opponents; we also have a responsibility to take care of ourselves. Do not leave the opponent to choose for you - when the Heelhook has reached the zero point. We must recognize that we are caught and choose to tap to concede the submission and avoid potential damage.

"You need to understand when it is time to give up. During our training, we always have a second chance. Forever. With this movement (taps the mat), you are going to have a second chance." says Professor Braulio.

Professor Braulio reminds us of the fact that when you have arrived at the zero point of the opponent's joint lock, you are under their control. The control is key. If you can not even move to start to escape and are under complete control of the position - the zero point - you are at risk of getting injured if you don't tap.

"So if I want to be safe, and I'm not very confident about dealing with the Heelhook when I get to the zero point, and I have no motion - in this case, the knee can not move - is the time to tap," says Professor Braulio

Professor Braulio stresses thinking to recognize when we are caught, and any movement to escape is not possible, to simply tap and start again with another chance to train.

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Heel Hook Reel

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March 10
• Edited (Mar 15, 2024)

Week 16 (Mar 10 - 16, 2024):

In Week 16, we're studying:

➡️CLINCH & HOLDS

➡️FOOT THROWS OR LEG THROWS

➡️MOUNT / KNEE ON BELLY

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March 29, 2023
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GB Online is excited to announce the outstanding performance of two of our instructors, Professors Alexandre Café and Lucas Norat, at the IBJJF Pan Ams held last weekend.

Professor Alexandre Café, a fifth-degree black belt, won the super-heavyweight division of the Master 3 category, securing his seventh gold medal at the prestigious tournament since 1998. This remarkable achievement is a testament to his unwavering commitment to the art and his ability to compete at the highest level.

Meanwhile, Professor Lucas Norat, a black belt, brought home a bronze medal in the heavyweight division of the Adult category, showcasing his hard work, talent, and skill in the sport.

We are immensely proud of their accomplishments. They serve as an inspiration to our community, motivating us to push ourselves further and strive for excellence in everything we do.

Congratulations Professors. We are honored to have you as part of our GB Online team and look forward to your continued success.

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February 23

Just got my 3rd Degree

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