Don’t You Wish You Could Pass Like Leo? By: Tyler Bishop In 2005, the event that everyone was talking about was Rickson’s Budo Challenge. It was a tournament done in an unusual format, with a unique scoring system that primarily rewarded submission attempts over positioning. Naturally, young up and coming jiu jitsu nerds watched in … Continue reading »
That’s right, we’re back with a brand new edition of “It’s Science”. In this particular case, we did a small – very limited – sample of the popular new prevalence of submission only jiu jitsu tournaments. We wanted to look at the high level black belts and break down some of the numbers that may … Continue reading »
The 2013 jiu jitsu season is finally here. At BishopBjj.com, we want to pick up were we left off last year. We completed the first 2 scientific case studies of jiu jitsu competition ever, and this year we want to take it a step even further. We are currently seeking 15-20 participants for a IBJJF … Continue reading »
Stats are amazing, you can use them to prove a point, justify an action, and even improve performance. In this case we are aiming for the latter. We did the 2012 Worlds study so that we could help develop tournament strategies that would put us in a position to succeed. But collecting the data is … Continue reading »
For the very first time ever we are making our Revised 2012 World Jiu Jitsu Case study available for free online (which includes our additional stats from the December issue of Jiu jitsu Magazine), and are providing unbridled access below. We don’t need an e-mail, name, phone number… nothing! You just click the report below, … Continue reading »
Can Anyone Be A World Champion? We would certainly like to think that being a world champion is possible for any of us, whether it’s a master/seniors title, or even the adult title. Most of us understand all the hard work that goes into this kind of accomplishment, but what about the mental preparation, and … Continue reading »
Our full 18 page World Jiu Jitsu Championships study is available now. If you have not signed up to receive a free copy yet, there is no other way to get it. We will not sell or use your information in any devious ways, we just want to keep all our hard work as proprietary … Continue reading »
Section 3.2 This will be our final article prior to releasing the full study in its entirety to everyone who has signed up to receive a free pdf copy. Just a friendly FYI, signing up is the only way to get a copy because I will not post the full study to the site. It … Continue reading »
Section 3.1 Since we’ve had a chance to breakdown how matches started, developed, and finished let’s now take a look at what techniques were utilized during this year’s competition. This section will focus on two of the most important elements of scoring points—passing and sweeping. Almost 73% of all points scored were done so from … Continue reading »
Section 2.1 Section 1 was about how matches started and finished. In section 2 we will look at the details that went into those results. We will discover things like, how these results were achieved, what techniques were used, what role did advantages play in this process, and what is else was important to victory … Continue reading »
