Last Saturday, I coached my teammate Rubin Pushpangathan at The Good Fight’s Winter BJJ Open submissions-only tournament. He took 2nd place in white belt gi – a division I love to watch due to its elimination of avant-garde leg-lock games that are typically used to stall. Anyway, with two submission wins, a grueling back-and-forth in […]

Well, I’m glad I’m not a betting man, because I would have lost a lot of money last Saturday at UFC 193. I would have put all my money on Ronda Rousey beating Holly Holm via superior clinch work, takedowns, and ground control. Holm certainly prepared well, as she negated almost all of that. But […]

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Check out this interview from one of the most popular websites in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, OnTheMat.com, about the importance of your training partners:  http://www.onthemat.com/blogs-posts/jay-hayes-being-good-training-partner Here is the introduction: While most forms of marital arts rely solely on katas, forms, and constant repetition, in Brazilian jiu-jitsu most of the stuff we learn and practice must be used with […]