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The Top 10 BJJ Competitors Of All Time
The Top 10 BJJ Competitors Of All Time Ask a room full of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners to name the greatest competitor of all time and you are unlikely to get a quiet, orderly discussion. Someone will immediately say Roger Gracie. Somebody else will point to Gordon Ryan’s dominance in no-gi, while a third person will argue that Marcelo Garcia achieved something more impressive by regularly taking on much bigger opponents. By the time somebody mentions the difference betw
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The Top 10 BJJ Gyms In England
The Top 10 BJJ Gyms In England Finding a good Brazilian jiu-jitsu gym in England is less about discovering whether good teaching exists near you and more about deciding which sort of academy suits your life. Some people want competition training and partners who will expose every weakness in their game. Others want to learn something absorbing, improve their fitness and spend a few evenings a week with people they get on with. Plenty of us want a bit of both. The best academi
Jimmy Rose, lifelong martial artist & BJJ enthusiast


The Best 5 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Gyms In London
The Best 5 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Gyms In London Choosing a Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy in London ought to be easy. There are famous names, experienced black belts and enough classes to keep even the most enthusiastic grappler occupied. The difficulty is working out which place will actually suit you once the excitement of signing up has worn off and you are trying to squeeze training into an ordinary working week. A competition-focused twenty-something and a forty-five-year-old
Jimmy Rose, lifelong martial artist & BJJ enthusiast


The Top 10 BJJ Instructors in the World
The Top 10 BJJ Instructors in the World Ask a room full of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners to name the best instructor in the world and you’ll probably get an argument before you get an answer. Some will point to whoever has produced the most champions. Others will name the person whose videos finally helped them escape side control. A fair few will choose their own instructor, and depending on how much that person has helped them, that might be a perfectly reasonable answe
Jimmy Rose, lifelong martial artist & BJJ enthusiast
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