Rickson and Budo Jake: Invisible Jiu-JItsu

A unique opportunity to take a peek at Invisible Jiu-Jitsu in action.

This Week in BJJ: Los Bros Mendes

More Must-See-TV from the good folks at Budo Videos.

This Week in BJJ - Budo Jake Talks with Roger Machado

Another great show from Budo Jake.

This Week in BJJ Episode 41 – Roger Machado

Make sure you stick around to the end to see one of the Machado "family secrets": the armpit americana!

(Hint: it resembles the Nogumura)

This Week In BJJ - Episode 3 Rafael and Guilherme Mendes

Here Come Cowboys

Sitting here Thursday night with the icepick quads (you know, when your quadriceps feel as if they've been stabbed with ice picks?) watching Heat/Pacers, and looking forward to another day on the mat tomorrow, it's been great to stoke my pre-Mundial fever with these promotional videos from Budo Videos, featuring Team Atos.

I loved seeing the one about Guillerme Mendes, who sometimes doesn't get the attention he deserves.  But this segment that features both Kyra Gracie and Mike Fowler, who left Gracie Barra and Team Lloyd Irvin, respectively, to represent Team Atos at the World Championships has the feel of something unique.

Ah, this jiu-jitsu.  It's hard to describe how much fun it is to be a part of something that is truly growing and dynamic.

Faria Fandom

Here's "classic" Bernardo Faria. The deep half sweep setup has the added gi control and hiding of the outside wrist to avoid the kimura. Also Faria's deep half uses control at the top of the hip, rather than dominating the leg exclusively. What I think this does for him is give him an early entry into his "go-to" guard pass, the over-under (and thanks to Professor Carlos for showing me and reminding me that detail on the "over"!).

He doesn't maintain any control over the trapped leg as he bridges over, something that was my obsession about the half guard in general a few weeks ago. I'll have to get a feel for how much control over the leg I get with that gi grip. Bernardo seems to have no problem getting the reverse; there's never a threat of the guy being able to block it with a backstep, for example. And that's got to be because of Faria's grip on the lapel.

As to the pass, I'm thinking both this pass and the Feitosa Stack pass from Rolled Up over at Budo Videos, would be among the good options to get to the side.

All the Mundial's a Stage

And We Merely Players ...

Budo Streams the Pan Live

I'll admit to have spent more than a few hours before a computer screen watching the good people at Budo Videos live stream jiu jitsu tournaments in the past.

And that was before I got the 20" HD monitor.

Ms. Burien Top Team and I have a date with the SAM Saturday morning. And if anything even remotely like this weather holds through the weekend, then I'm sure to be spending much of Saturday and/or Sunday afora. That said, this live stream is a blast and a great deal if you can carve even a couple hours of jiu jiutsu time out of the first full weekend of spring.

Buy the Budo Pan stream here

Rolled Up with Budo Jake and Romulo Barral

One thing I need to spend more time with over at Budo Videos is their great "Rolled Up" series starring Budo Jake.

The current episode features Jake meeting with Romulo Barral. More open guard than your heart can handle.

Part 1

Part 2

Watch the Mundials June 5 & 6 Live 9am PST

2010 World Jiu-Jitsu Championships Live

Watch the Worlds here for free on June 5th and 6th. All you need to do is log in with your Budovideos account or take a minute to create one. Both our forums and our chat will allow you to discuss what is happening and allow you to correspond with our live commentators.