Judo Chop: Demian Maia’s Hybrid Grappling Game
Demian Maia has long been known as one of the very best jiu jitsu practitioners in the world, and he has been on a 2-year,…
T.P. Grant
Articles by T.P. Grant
So Meta: The MMA Guard Game
The guard has been a part of MMA since its founding days, and for a long stretches of the sports history it was seen as…
Is sport Jiu Jitsu bad for MMA? Going deeper than bermibolos and guard pulling
The growth of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu parallels the rise of Mixed Martial Arts around the globe. Largely due to the successes of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu…
Bloody Elbow review: Gianni Grippo Dynamic Leg Drags from Digitsu
Traditionally Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructionals tend to be huge, expensive box sets that could be a curriculum at a school, but with the rise of…
Judo Chop ‘Year of the Guillotine’: Part 3 – MMA Adaptations
This is the final installment of the “Year of the Guillotine” min-series of Judo Chops examining trends that lead to the guillotine becoming a more…
Judo Chop ‘Year of the Guillotine’: Part 2 – The Rise of the ‘Arm-In’ Guillotine
The guillotine choke experienced something of a renaissance in MMA over the last two years. Fightmetric’s numbers demonstrate that while guillotine attempts have declined, the…
Judo Chop: ‘Year of the Guillotine’, Part 1 – Understanding Pressure
The guillotine is seemingly one of the simplest chokes in grappling but upon closer inspection it becomes an amazingly detailed and difficult choke to finish…
UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor Judo Chop – Luke Rockhold’s Opportunistic Grappling
UFC 194 is set to be an absolutely epic fight card, starting at the top with the long awaited main event of UFC Featherweight Champion Jose…
UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor Judo Chop – The Pressure Top Game of Chris Weidman
UFC 194 is set to be an absolutely epic fight card, starting at the top with the long awaited main event of UFC Featherweight Champion…
So Meta: Holly Holm uses modern striker tactics to dethrone Ronda Rousey
Holly Holm completed one of the most thrilling upsets in the history of a sport full of thrilling upsets. Holm dismantled Ronda Rousey to decisively…
Know It All Purple Belt: ‘That’s Not Jiu Jitsu’
In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu one of the negative connotations that can attached to purple belts is that they can occasionally think they already know it…
So Meta: The Four MMA Grappling Archetypes
The podcast Heavy Hands has been doing a great job of using archetypes to help classify MMA fighter’s striking games. Creating archetypes and then sorting fighters…
Know-It-All Purple Belt: The Role of Aggression in Learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu one of the negative connotations that can attached to purple belts is that they can occasionally think they already know it…
ADCC 2015 Profiles: Mackenzie Dern
This August, the most prestigious no-gi submission grappling tournament will take place – the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championships. Known in shorthand…
ADCC 2015 Profiles: Romulo Barral
This August, the most prestigious no-gi submission grappling tournament will take place – the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championships. Known in shorthand…
ADCC 2015 Profiles: Garry Tonon
This August, the most prestigious no-gi submission grappling tournament will take place, the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championships. Known in shorthand has…
ADCC 2015 Profiles: Michelle Nicolini
This August, the most prestigious no-gi submission grappling tournament will take place, the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championships. Known in shorthand has…
Palhares breaks the etiquette of the tap
Checkmate. One word captures the elegance of chess, where the goal of the game is to take the opponent’s King but the final move is…
ADCC 2015 Profiles: Joao Miyao
This August the most prestigious no-gi submission grappling tournament will take place, the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championships. Known in shorthand has…
Gods of War: Tadahiro Nomura
Tadahiro Nomura was born December 10, 1974 to a Judo family in Koryo, Japan. Nomura’s grandfather ran a local Judo school, his father had coached 1984…