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In honor of Marcelo competing again on Jan. 24, this video has a cool breakdown of his past achievements.

This tournament was an attempt by Rickson Gracie to change the BJJ rule set to make BJJ more palatable for the public.

Some highlights:

• 3 minute rounds.
• Pulling guard gives you -1 point, pass, mount, back mount etc. gives 1 point, sub attempt 3 points.
• Heel hooks allowed.
• Each weight class had 4 competitors and 3 matches.
• Competitors included Marcelo Garcia, Xande Ribeiro, Leonardo Viera, Jacare and Rafael Lovato Jr.

It would be really cool to see something like this format take off again after the huge success of CJI.

This week we're joined by Shawn Williams! Shawn is a black belt under Renzo Gracie, and is both a renowned competitor and teacher. In this episode, Shawn Williams explains his "closed loop" strategy for Jiu-Jitsu, wherein you're always advancing without compromising position.

DISCLAIMER: Jiu-Jitsu is not therapy, and is not a replacement for therapy.

I'm heading out to support some teammates at a Grappling Industries today. It's a round robin format in the group stage. One of the guys divisions starts at 5.20, and he has his last round robin match scheduled for 11.30 right now. They still have to do the semi final and final matches after that.

Pretty much the title. I've been training for 5 months, injured for 4 weeks in there - just came off of a 2wk recovery from a knee injury. I'm relatively young, 6ft 175lbs, in pretty decent shape.

But I overexert myself to the point of vomiting nearly every class. It's frustrating and embarassing.

I've started doing more cardio and have improved a lot in that regard, but it doesn't seem to help at all on the mats. Do I just need to do more cardio? Is there something nutrition-wise that could help? Open to any and all suggestions.

Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice. I will try 1) not try so hard and ask partners to help me with that, 2) advice to talk to my doctor - I have in the past and he wasn't much help - but it got me to do some research... some medication I'm on can cause hyponatremia, which can cause nausea and vomiting especially after exercise... so I'm going to try a saline solution before/during class and may report back if it works.

Edit 2: took a 3% hypertonic salt solution to class today and it seems to have worked. I asked a higher belt to really push me in a difficult roll after class to test it. Not certain yet, but seems to have fixed the vomiting

Hi, so for context I'm a 2 stripe white belt, and our school just did a 2 month series of classes on Knee on belly attach and defense. One thing I didn't quite glean from it is why would I do this vs mount? I if I have someone in side control and can throw a knee over them, I can usually do a full leg without much more effort, and mount is a much safer attacking position.

So I guess what I'm missing here is when do you guys go into this position?

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Looks like it'll be a good show, lotta good matchups.

Apparently Gordon has put a 500 bounty on his former teammates

I'm partial to a wristlock right now. I've been locking people up in triangles, pulling the arm out like I'm gonna hit the triangle arm bar and wristlocking them. Had a couple of people say please just choke me 🤣

Rodolfo Viera disagrees

With a bolo, no less