August 2026
Everything Jiu-Jitsu Style published this month.
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
[Watch Eddie Cummings's heel hook finishing details on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keeTKizdZzU)
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
[Watch Marcelo Garcia roll with Jimmy Pedro on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nFsW16Ej60)
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
[Watch Oli Geddes's shin-to-shin sweep and footlock on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVfNI9zaXZM)
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 is less often the best striker or the best wrestler and more often whoever is…
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
[Watch Keenan Cornelius break down his cross choke on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLcnyzBqFw)
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…
John Danaher's Simple Framework for Setting BJJ Goals
"Get better at Jiu Jitsu." It's the goal every one of us has written down at some point, and according to John Danaher, it's also close to worthless. In a post this week, the coach behind some of…
Looking Back: The UK BJJ Youth Squad & BJJ247 Link-Up
In April 2015, a small Manchester sports hall played host to a quietly important moment for UK BJJ: the first event in the new partnership between BJJ247 and the UK BJJ Elite Youth Squad.
Tim Welch's Warning to Jonah Hill Is a BJJ Lesson for Every White Belt
Jonah Hill went viral this week for talking a big game about his BJJ, and the internet did what the internet does with that kind of clip: laughed, shared it, and mostly moved on. Then Tim Welch,…
Michael Liera Jr.'s BJJ Sit-Up Guard Knee Cut Pass
When this Michael Liera Jr. clip first ran on Jiu Jitsu Style in March 2015, the caption underneath it was one line long: nice pass from a rising Atos star. That was enough at the time. Liera was…
Looking Back: The Super 15 Submission-Only Jiu Jitsu Invitational
In April 2015, a stacked BJJ fight card landed in front of UK Jiu Jitsu fans: the very first Super 15 Submission Only Invitational.
Big Dan Manasoiu Defends Derek Moneyberg's Black Belt in BJJ
Every few months, BJJ's oldest argument resurfaces wearing a new face, and this time it's Derek Moneyberg's. The entrepreneur-turned-grappler has been one of the sport's most talked-about names…
Elisabeth Clay on the Hardest Training Partner in BJJ: Your Spouse
Every BJJ gym has a version of this story, but few people are willing to tell it as bluntly as six-time No-Gi World Champion Elisabeth Clay did on a recent episode of the Weslee Weighs In podcast.…