August 2026
Everything Jiu-Jitsu Style published this month.
Caio Terra's De La Riva Ankle Lock: A BJJ Staple
When we first put this De La Riva ankle lock clip up in June 2015, we kept it to nine words: Caio Terra is a master at this, nice tech. That was the whole review, and at the time it was enough —…
Islam Makhachev's Teammate Rule Has a Lesson for BJJ
UFC double champion Islam Makhachev said something this week that BJJ and Jiu Jitsu people should sit with for a minute, because it cuts against how most of our sport actually works: he will never…
John Danaher: Why BJJ Isn't Just Technique — It's Intensity, Too
John Danaher has spent decades convincing the BJJ world that Jiu Jitsu is a science — a system of levers, angles, and sequences you can study like a textbook. So it's worth paying attention when…
Rolling on the High Seas: A BJJ Cruise From the Archive
From the Jiu Jitsu Style archive: in July 2015 we ran a short news piece about Grappler's Escape — a Caribbean cruise built around Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training, with Andre Galvao, Saulo and Xande…
Khabib Nurmagomedov's BJJ Gym Etiquette Rule: Train Like It's a Wedding
Khabib Nurmagomedov has never needed a microphone to make a point about respect on the mats, but footage surfacing this week from his UFC 330 corner work gave him one anyway. Asked about his…
Tom DeBlass Warns Youth Worlds Have a 'Scary' Steroid Problem
Tom DeBlass isn't a stranger to blunt takes, but his latest one lands harder than most: the black belt and gym owner says he believes some parents are putting their kids on steroids to win youth…
Charles Johnson's Scottish Twister Is BJJ's Wildest Finish
Every few years the cage reminds everyone why BJJ people can't stop talking about leg entanglements. UFC 330 delivered its version Saturday night, when flyweight Charles Johnson caught late…
Dante Leon on Why ADCC 2026 Hype Feels Different This Year
Every BJJ practitioner has felt it: the run-up to a big event carries its own weight, separate from anything that happens on the mats. Dante Leon, a four-time ADCC veteran, thinks this year's…
From Tackles to Takedowns: Nick Nahas on Football and BJJ
The one thing almost every Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete agrees on is that they wish they'd started training younger. The athletes who get the headlines now — Mica Galvão, Tainan Dalpra, the Ruotolo…
Teen Uses BJJ To Catch Alleged Jewelry Thief In Miami
A 17-year-old with BJJ training turned into an unlikely hero last Thursday evening, and the story is the kind that makes every practitioner sit up a little straighter. In Miami's Brickell…
Ana Mayordomo Exposes ADCC's Women's Bracket Problem
Ana Mayordomo has done something almost nobody in BJJ or Jiu Jitsu history has managed: she won two separate ADCC trials events in the same qualification cycle. And under the current rules, it…
Eddie Cummings' BJJ Heel Hook Details
When we ran this Eddie "Wolverine" Cummings clip in the summer of 2015, the BJJ heel hook conversation was still being held in whispers. EBI 1 had just happened, EBI 2 was being put together, and…
Khabib Nurmagomedov: John Danaher's Students 'Are At The Top'
When one of the most dominant grapplers ever to compete in MMA sits down for a three-hour conversation, it's worth listening to which BJJ names he chooses to bring up unprompted. Khabib…
Why White Belt Might Be BJJ's Most Important Promotion
Every serious BJJ practitioner remembers the belt they never actually got promoted to: their first one. It arrived with no ceremony, no stripe, no line of training partners waiting to whip you…
Marcelo Garcia Rolls with Jimmy Pedro: A BJJ Open-Mat Lesson
When the clip of Marcelo Garcia rolling with Jimmy Pedro first surfaced on Jiu Jitsu Style in May 2015, the caption we put on it was almost embarrassingly short — "a nice little sparring session…
Why Jon Kunneman Wouldn't Tap: A BJJ Lesson From DWCS 10
The opening bout of Dana White's Contender Series Season 10 was a fight, but the finish was pure Jiu Jitsu — and a genuinely hard watch. Jon Kunneman and Joe Kropschot spent two and a half rounds…
Jozef Chen's 3 BJJ Habits Behind His Rapid Rise
Jozef Chen is 22 years old and has been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for eight of those years, having started at 14. In grappling terms, that's not a long runway to becoming one of the sport's…
Oli Geddes' Shin-to-Shin Sweep & Footlock: A BJJ Classic
When we first put up Oli Geddes' shin-to-shin sweep/footlock clip in May 2015, the polite framing was the only one we needed: awesome details from a man who already owned one of the nastiest…
Islam Makhachev on Why BJJ Is the Great Equalizer in MMA
Islam Makhachev thinks Jiu Jitsu is the great equalizer in MMA, and his reasoning is simple: the best fighter isn't the best striker or the best wrestler, it's whoever is dangerous enough…
Duane \"Bang\" Ludwig Earns His BJJ Black Belt at Last
Duane "Bang" Ludwig has been a professional fighter, a title-fight kickboxer, and one of the most respected striking coaches in MMA. This week, the story that's actually spreading through BJJ…
Can Gordon Ryan Beat Mikey Musumeci? BJJ Says Maybe Not
A question that would have sounded like pure trash talk a few years ago is suddenly being asked in earnest in Jiu Jitsu circles: could Gordon Ryan, the most dominant no-gi grappler of his…
Tsarukyan vs. Danis: A BJJ Reckoning at RAF 14
Arman Tsarukyan is about to have the busiest autumn of his career, and BJJ fans should be paying attention to both halves of it. On October 3rd in Las Vegas, he'll step onto the mat at RAF 14 to…
Keenan Cornelius's Cross Choke: A BJJ Breakdown
When this BJJ clip first landed on the magazine in May 2015, the note we ran under it was one line: check out Keenan's take on the cross choke, pretty cool details in there. Eleven years on, that…
Greg Souders: Pushing Kids to Elite BJJ Is Abuse
Greg Souders has built his reputation on the constraint-led approach — a coaching philosophy that treats skill as something a student discovers through guided problem-solving rather than something…