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Live Technique and Perspective Videos

What Is The Tanquinho Sweep?

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Since early this year Tyler has only been able to label the above sweep one way, “it’s the Tanquinho sweep”, said Tyler. “I watched Augusto Mendes execute this sweep flawlessly in several matches last year, and decided to make it part of my game. Since then, I have never thought of another name for it. Since I learned it from watching him, I decided to simply use his name to reference it”.
The above sweep is simple, easy, and effective. You might want to try adding it to your game. Try to think of other techniques you’ve seen in competition and would like to learn, and send them to us on Facebook. We will break them down and post them on our site. If your submission is selected we will send you a  free copy of Jiu Jitsu Magazine featuring our most recent article.

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BJJ Study and Statistics Articles

Using Statistics To Improve Jiu Jitsu Performance

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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 one thing, applying it on the mat is something totally different. Check out the video above to get an idea of how to use this kind of information in the real world.
If you haven’t read our full study or Jiu Jitsu magazine article yet make sure you go to the front page and check it out.

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BJJ Study and Statistics Articles

Jiu Jitsu World Championships Full Study (Free) – 2012

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, and pages of unprecedented jiu jitsu knowledge will be at your fingertips.
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2012 World Jiu Jitsu Case Study

This entire project took Jena and I months of planning, film watching, and research to complete. The report itself still doesn’t accurately reflect all the intricacies of jiu jitsu competition that we learned while completing this project. However, our hope is that the 2013 studies will be even bigger and more powerful, with greater in-depth analysis. We’ve appreciated the tremendous feedback we’ve received from researchers that work for major universities, Google, Adobe, the government, scientific journals, and more. Neither Jena nor myself have degrees that merit true scientific study. This is a passion, and we originally started it to provide ourselves with an edge in competition strategies. The entire process got out of hand, and three months later we completed the Pan study –  which we used to prepare for the 2012 Worlds. I can say unequivocally that using the information in this study has improved our competition jiu jitsu seven-fold.
In 2013 we plan to return to the “It’s Science” series with more in-depth competitor breakdowns along with several other new series that will focus on the statistical elements of jiu jitsu. Obviously, our largest projects this year will be the new studies. We want them to be bigger and better than ever – which means they will take even more time and energy than they did this year. We have had a ton of people that are far more qualified than ourselves volunteer to help us work on these projects (which is fantastic!!!). But, this all takes a lot of time and effort, so all of your feedback, support, and attention makes it fun to do what we do. Thank you for all of your support from the bottom of our hearts.

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BishopBjj News

Best BJJ Blog

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We are very proud to announce that we were selected as best BJJ blog by the Jiu Jitsu Laboratory. It is great to be recognized by your peers, and we feel blessed to be recognized by someone we have such great respect for.
We have grown this site beyond what we ever thought possible. We have a very ambitious 2013 planned, and hope that everyone who has joined us to this point will continue to do so as we pursue to create exciting, impactful, and engaging content.

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BishopBjj News

BishopBjj.com in Jiu Jitsu Magazine

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If you haven’t already, you are going to want to check out our 4-page article in this months Jiu-Jitsu Magazine. It has a lot of breakdowns from our Worlds study that we did not include in the original copy. So if you want to see a lot of cool stats that are just now being released, you will have to get a copy of this months issue.

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Interviews

Royler Gracie Perspectives #1

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This video breaks down a few things that Royler communicated with us last time he was in town. See what Royler has to say about the evolution of jiu jitsu and it’s popularity.
Check back a few months in the archives to see the whole interview with Royler.
As son to the late Grandmaster Helio Gracie, Royler is a member of the renowned Gracie family, and thus related to number of other prominent Gracies, such as his brothers Rickson, Royce, Rorion, Relson, Robin and Rolker. He holds a 7th degree red/black belt in the style pioneered by his family, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.[12]
Prior to his retirement, Royler competed in the black-belt ranks for 20+ years. He and Marcelo Garcia are the only individuals to have won the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship (ADCC) for three consecutive years. Royler is also a four-time World Jiu-Jitsu Champion in the Pena/Featherweight Black Belt Category and has placed in the Absolute Division.
Royler is known as an excellent teacher, having been the lead instructor at the Gracie Humaitá Academy founded by his father in Rio de Janeiro for over a decade. Some of his famous students include Saulo Ribeiro, Leonardo Xavier, Leticia Ribeiro and David Adiv. In 2008, he moved to San Diego, California and established Gracie Jiu-Jitsu San Diego where he is the lead instructor.

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Live Technique and Perspective Videos

Jiu Jitsu Techniques To Study #1

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Check out our first episode of Technique Journal. Technique Journal is a series where we break down several techniques from live competition that we want to work on each week. We thinks it’s important to identify what makes the techniques work, and what properties the specific player we are breaking down uses to make it successful.
If you don’t keep a technique journal already, we encourage you to start.
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