May 2026
Everything Jiu-Jitsu Style published this month.
The Dreaded BJJ Plateau
A plateau is a stretch of time when you feel like you're not improving no matter how much effort you pour into your training. To make it worse, sometimes during these spells you feel like you're…
Gui Mendes: Top BJJ Game Concepts
Some of the best lessons in BJJ don't come from a flashy new technique — they come from listening to one of the greats explain how they actually think on the mat. Gui Mendes is one of those…
Why MMA Fighters Should Train Jiu Jitsu in a Gi
Jiu Jitsu is devastatingly efficient and capable of completely incapacitating someone, but it still carries a stigma when set against the more obviously "manly" art of caving someone's skull in.…
Tips for Dating a Female BJJ Practitioner
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is addictive, and it's still ridiculously hard to explain to people who don't train. More women are on the BJJ mats now than ever — and sometimes their non-training partners…
BJJ Girl Problems
1. People saying "Oh, I'd better not mess with you then" the second they hear you train BJJ. So if I were just a normal girl, you'd be punching me right now? Cool, cool.
5 Tips to Maximise Your Training Time
Training jiu jitsu is usually a labor of love. When you first start, you spend a wildly disproportionate amount of time thinking about how to get better and how to find more hours on the mat. The…
Developing Good Mental Habits in BJJ
Picture a familiar scene at BJJ class. Your instructor shows a new technique, and almost instantly you start interpreting what it means for you — usually without noticing you're doing it. "Okay,…
Tips to Learning BJJ Faster
One of the questions I get asked most as a BJJ instructor is, "How do I learn this stuff faster?" It's the natural reaction to falling in love with Jiu Jitsu — you see it as a martial art, a…
5 Things the BJJ Mat Can Teach Us
A debate that never really goes away in jiu jitsu is the question of how much a black belt is supposed to be a role model — whether the job goes beyond teaching technique and into providing some…
10 Ways to Improve Your BJJ Training in 2026
We don't need a special day on the calendar to get off the couch and hit the mats — but every so often I catch myself just going through the motions, putting in time rather than getting better.…