June 2026
Everything Jiu-Jitsu Style published this month.
Bia Mesquita's UFC Armbar Is a Master Class in BJJ Patience
Bia Mesquita's BJJ has now finished every opponent the UFC has put in front of her, and on Saturday night at UFC Vegas 119 it nearly didn't get the chance. Three minutes into a bantamweight prelim…
Conor McGregor's 'Notorious' Story Through a BJJ Lens
Conor McGregor sitting on Jimmy Fallon's couch this week, finally explaining the "Notorious" nickname, is not the kind of story that usually lands on a Jiu Jitsu site. But Conor is a BJJ brown…
The Dreaded BJJ Injury Lay Off
After the better part of two decades of Jiu Jitsu training, it finally happened. I suffered my first extensive injury lay off, which left me genuinely worried for my sanity.
BJJ Coach Alcenor Alves Sentenced to 178 Years for Athlete Abuse
A Brazilian court has handed BJJ black belt Alcenor Alves a 178-year prison sentence after convicting him of sexually abusing multiple young athletes under his coaching across more than a decade.…
Zabit Magomedsharipov on Why Gi Training Still Matters in BJJ
Few sentences carry more weight in a BJJ academy than a high-level MMA athlete admitting his gi has been gathering dust. That is exactly the position former UFC contender Zabit Magomedsharipov…
Being a Jiu Jitsu Average Joe
I've been training for a fair while now, and much like I imagine you'd deal with a mid-life crisis, I'm starting to worry I've become a jiu jitsu average Joe — please tell me I'm not alone?
Woodley vs Buckley at RAF 12: What BJJ Fans Should Watch
Real American Freestyle has booked another card that ought to be on every BJJ fan's calendar, even if the rules don't reward a single triangle or armbar. Tyron Woodley, the former UFC welterweight…
Mo Jassim Breaks Silence on the ADCC Atlanta Open BJJ Brawl
ADCC head Mo Jassim has finally addressed the ugly scene that closed out the Men's Advanced Under 65kg final at the 2026 ADCC Atlanta Open — and for the wider BJJ community the response matters…
Eddie Bravo Teaches the BJJ 'Swedish Twister'
When we caught up with Eddie Bravo for Jiu Jitsu Style a decade ago to film the "Swedish Twister", we did it because the variation felt, even then, like a small window onto how he actually works.…
McGregor's Recovery Drug Saga Through a Jiu Jitsu Lens
Conor McGregor is not really a BJJ name, but he is a Jiu Jitsu story this week. The former two-division UFC champion has fired back at a New York Times report alleging he sought permission to use…
Mikey Musumeci: BJJ Black Belt Means Less Than It Used To
Mikey Musumeci has spent the past week putting words to a complaint a lot of long-time BJJ practitioners have only ever whispered in the changing room. Sitting down with Robert Drysdale and Hector…
Hidden Indicators of Improvement in BJJ
As a Brazilian jiu jitsu coach, the subject my students ask me about more than any other is improvement. People want to know how to train in order to improve, how to improve faster, why they don't…
FBI Foils Alleged UFC White House Plot: A BJJ View
The biggest BJJ and MMA story of the week didn't happen in a cage. According to a Fox News report flagged by…
BJJ Black Belt Josh Longood: 'I Got This' on the Frontier Flight
When a BJJ black belt restrains a disruptive passenger 35,000 feet over the Caribbean, the part everyone replays is the takedown. The part that actually matters for the rest of us who train Jiu…
5 Tips to Black Belt
Brazilian jiu jitsu is hard — there's no point pretending otherwise. It's hard for most people just to train regularly, and it's hard to develop your skills in a way that actually gets you promoted.
Jozef Chen on ADCC Poland: 'Ah, Americans...' and BJJ's Global Reset
The loudest fight in BJJ this month isn't happening on the mats — it's playing out on social media over a passport. ADCC 2026 has left Las Vegas for Kraków, and a large American slice of the…
Why Jozef Chen Thinks Reels Would Have Cooked His BJJ
Jozef Chen has spent the last couple of years collecting trophies, but in a new interview he credits something far quieter for his rise in BJJ: the simple accident of growing up before Instagram…
BJJ Concepts for Everyday Life
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, as a sport and a lifestyle, has a significant impact on the people who train it. We reach higher levels of fitness while learning to control our bodies and those who come into…
BJJ Instructor Publicly Demotes Student From Brown to Blue Belt
A clip making the rounds in BJJ social media this week shows something the Jiu Jitsu world almost never sees in public: a coach untying a brown belt off a student's waist and handing him a blue…
Kron Gracie, Rafa Mendes and BJJ's PED Reckoning
Kron Gracie has dropped a sentence into the BJJ world this week that the sport's competitive class has been quietly half-expecting for fifteen years. According to a [report from…
Chimaev, Danis and What RAF 10 Showed BJJ Fans
There is a particular kind of BJJ story that just keeps repeating itself, and Real American Freestyle 10 served up another one on Saturday night. Khamzat Chimaev — a three-time Swedish national…
Why BJJ Finally Got Honest About Strength Training
For a long stretch of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu's history, "technique over strength" wasn't just a coaching cue — it was a tribal identity. Helio's whole story is about the small man undoing the big one…
Tips for Visiting Another Jiu Jitsu Gym
In my years of training BJJ, I've travelled to well over a hundred different gyms — across the US and all over the world. If you ever watched my show Rolled Up, you've seen quite a few of them.…
Eddie Bravo Teaches 'The Sorcerer': A BJJ System Lesson
When we sat Eddie Bravo down a decade ago to walk us through "The Sorcerer" for Jiu Jitsu Style, it would have been easy to file the move alongside the rest of his catalogue — another oddly-named…