There is a bit of controversy on this topic.  When I started training and I was originally under the Gracies, I was told that leg locks are: 1)  dangerous 2) on kneebars you turn your back, and turning your back is really bad 3) if you train them...

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I asked Shawn King to talk with us about how your health can affect your training.  I think you can easily take your training and your life to the next level with the information Shawn has to share with you. Share and Enjoy:

continue from part 1 Information in this article was taken mostly from a book that I recommend, mostly for it’s history section,  “Mastering JuJitsu” by Renzo Gracie and John Danaher. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has it’s roots in the Gracie family, but the...

For years I had only heard about the history of Jiu-Jitsu from the Gracies. Rorion Gracie said that his father Helio was the driving force behind most of the evolution of Jiu-Jitsu from what they learned from Count Koma. In the Machado’s schools and in...