my BJJ blog

The following are my thoughts and opinions, like it or not…. I dunno, I kinda went thru the whole thing not knowing what UFC 94 was titled.  Was there even a title?  Anyway, as with my other UFC thoughts I’ll avoid fight analysis etc like I’m sure is freely found online. My sad observance is [...]

Just found this video, it claims to be BJ Penn’s first MMA match. Certainly could be BJ, but doesn’t show his face clearly enough. Anyway, he wins by RNC.

This is the exact same sweep me and my friend had a great time drilling back in BJJ Class 108. We did pay attention to the arm grab that BJ demonstrates in the start of the video. Use a baseball bat grip with no-gi or a simple sleeve grab will do – and if I [...]

I was looking for a BJJ video with tons of shoulder subs, a “shoulder submission highlight” video, if you will – but found none. It would’ve been fun to have a post titled “techniques not to do on me”. Instead, I found this really cool video of BJ Penn as a whitebelt. Enjoy!