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BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU RESOURCES




WEB RESOURCES
Links

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU WEB SITES
The Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy
Rorion and Royce Gracie's Official Academy web site.

Gracie USA Home Page
The web site has a web page on Carley Gracie and has a published two-part magazine article on Carley Gracie. The site also has assorted information on Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.

Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Information on Carlson Gracie, his dojos, and fighters. There are pictures of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques.

Rickson Gracie
Royce Gracie, multiple UFC champion, says his brother Rickson is ten times better than him. Enuff said.

Machado Jiu-Jitsu
Brothers related to the Gracie clan who are considered excellent instructors. Their web site has numerous pictures from past magazine articles featuring the Machado Brothers.

Machado Jiu-Jitsu Home Page
Affiliated instructor Fabio Clemente who teaches in NYC for the Machados.

Fabio Santos
Fabio Santos teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He trained under Rolls Gracie and received 3rd degree black belt under Rickson Gracie. There are some pictures of Fabio.

Carlson Gracie Jr. Team Chicago


Yamasaki-Dalla Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
A pair of Brazilian instructors who now teach in the US.

Allan Goes' Home Page
A Brazilian BJJ instructor and fighter who's located in the US.

Cesar Gracie, Ralph Gracie and Nino Schembri
Web site for Ralph and Cesar Gracie. Ralph Gracie fought successfully in Battlecade's Extreme Fighting Championship tournament series.

Pedro Carvalho's home page
He sells instructional BJJ video tapes, teaches, and sells imported Brazilian gi's.

Equipe Liberi de Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian BJJ school's web site.

Martial Arts Sites on the Web
Collected information on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) or Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (GJJ) and web links. The site has contact info for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu schools in the US.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Discussion Forum
Yes, it's a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) discussion forum. Anyone can post.

Chuck Michel's BJJ site
Personal BJJ page from a BJJ student's perspective.

Ismael Vargas Salgueiro Home Page
Brazilian BJJ student's personal page. It's in Portuguese.

Jiu-Jitsu
A Brazilian's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu web page.

Clube Combate Real de Jiu-Jitsu
It's in Portuguese.

GRACIE BH Jiu-Jitsu
It's a Brazilian site and in Portuguese.

Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Don Geddis' BJJ web site with BJJ school contact information and tournament rules.

Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Training Association WebSite


Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Techniques: Notes From a Beginner
Web page of technique notes with illustrations from seminars with Rorion & Royce and Rickson Gracie by Danny Abramovitch.

Pictures
Interesting personal web site of a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu student. This page has personal photos of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructors and BJJ students.

Eskippy
Personal home page with some Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu info.

Leo Castelo Branco's Home Page
Brazilian web site of a BJJ instructor.

Tom's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Page

Professional Academy - Home Page
This academy's web site has information about their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes. They're located in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Personal web page with information on a Brazilian Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor, Rubens Nery Rodrigues teaching in the US.

Kimonos KRUGANS - História do Jiu-Jitsu.
Brazilian web site of Jiu-Jitsu gi manufacturer.

BJJ Technique Web Site.


Chuck Michel's BJJ Page
Personal site from a BJJ student's perspective.

Marcus McClary's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Page


Rabha's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Home Page.


The Australian Federation of Brasilian Jiu Jitsu


Brunocilla Web Site
"Luta Livre" is the archrival of BJJ in Brazil.

Untitled
Brazilian BJJ web site.

Seguidores do MESTRE FADDA
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu web site. This site has information about Jiu-Jitsu descended from Esai Maeda like Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club of Michigan


East Coast Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club


GRAPPLING UNLIMITED HAWAII
Egan Inoue's school. Information about classes, locations, and merchandise.

Federação Paulista de Jiu-Jitsu
Nice Brazilian site in Portuguese with numerous links to Jiu-Jitsu sites in Brazil and contest results.


WEB SITES PERTAINING TO BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU
Black Belt Magazine Home Page
Black Belt Magazine's web site has a published article on Gracie Jiu-Jitsu with Royce Gracie (pictures of techniques).

Masahiko Kimura
This Japanese Judo champion defeated Helio Gracie in a judo/jiu-jitsu-styled match. This is an article about their famous match and Kimura's biography published in the United States Judo Federation's (USJF) News Magazine, Vol. 3, No.2, February 1995. (Note: The article was probably partly based on Kimura's autobiography where he stated that he broke Helio's arm. In a Japanese martial arts magazine interview, Helio denies this. It may have been Kimura's belief that he broke Helio's arm. However, Kimura had great admiration for Helio and wanted Helio to teach at the Kodokan in Japan since Kimura saw pre-war judo techniques which he felt had disappeared in Japan.

Martial Arts in Japan: BIG FIGHT Home Page
Excellent Japanese site for No-Holds Barred Competition and Japanese shootfighting. It has news and information about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters and upcoming matches and fight results.

Judo Information Site
A very large Judo web site with pictures and resources.

Aikido Journal On-Line
Aikido Journal had two issues on Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (interview with Rorion Gracie with Helio Gracie).

Rorion and Helio Gracie


Martial Arts EXTREME
A commercial site that sells NHB fight videos.

Bill Lewis' Grappling Video Reviews
Bill Lewis reviews grappling instructional and fight videos.


NO-HOLDS-BARRED EVENTS (NHB) WEB SITES

The irrepressible Wallid Ismael (BJJ fighter in white trunks)
attacks from the mount position.



The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) Home Page
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters such as Royce Gracie, Joe Moreira, and Amaury Bitetti, all have fought in this on-going "No-Holds-Barred" (NHB) tournament series. Web site contains downloadable pictures from the tournament series.

Battlecade's Extreme Fighting Championship Home Page
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters such as Carlos Gracie Jr., Ralph Gracie, Mario Sperry, and Conan have fought in this "No-Holds-Barred" (NHB) tournament.

MARS Reality Superfighting Home Page
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters, Renzo Gracie, Mario Sperry, and Murrilo Bustamante entered the first tournament.

New Full Contact
Web site with news and gossip about the latest NHB matches and tournaments from Europe, Japan and the US. It also covers shootfighting events (Japanese sportive version of NHB). They also sell videos of various NHB events and instructional videos.

Martial Arts in Japan: BIG FIGHT Home Page
Good Japanese site for No-Holds Barred competition and Japanese shootfighting. It has news and information about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters and their matches.

No Way Out
Nicely done Web site for No-Holds Barred competition with fighter biographies and pictures. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters like Royce and Rickson Gracie are given pages with statistics and biography.

Tap Out Crew
A No Holds Barred fighting web site with RUMOURS, merchandise, and BJJ fighters' home pages.

Vale Tudo News
A No Holds Barred fighting Newsletter's web site.

Free Fight News
A No Holds Barred fighting Newsletters's web site with rumours and videos.

Openlink Homepages.
A Brazilian "No Holds Barred" fighting web site.

The Lion's Den Submission Academy
Web site for the Lion's Den. It's Ken Shamrock's school. He use to fight in a Japanese Submission Fighting organization called Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling. He lost to Royce Gracie by submitting to a choke in the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) but vindicated himself in a later UFC superfight with Royce Gracie by tying with Royce. Frank Shamrock, his brother, tied with Allan Goes, a Brazilian BJJ fighter in a Pancrase match. Frank lost a point when Goes choked him from behind. Frank later repaid Goes by winning a point using a vicious anklelock.

Marco Ruas Home Page
Marco Ruas, a Brazilian NHB fighter, was an UFC champion with BJJ training, and represents the Brazilian martial arts style that is the archrival of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil called Luta Livre.

Shimauo's No Rules Fighting
Japanese NHB web site.



NEWSGROUPS
rec.martial-arts
This is an USENET newsgroup devoted to martial arts. Posts concerning Brazilian Jiu- Jitsu and NHB competition are a staple.

alt.ufc
This is an USENET newsgroup devoted to NHB





Off-line Sources of Information
about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or GJJ
PUBLICATIONS
Japanese Martial Arts Magazines
The Japanese martial arts magazines such as, "GONG" Fighting News and "GONG" (pronounced "GONK" in Japanese) Fighting Technique cover NHB events from around the world, interviews with Brazilian Jiu- Jitsu instructors/fighters, and cover Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) tournaments in Brazil all with excellent pictures. However, the exchange rate makes them pricey and they are in Japanese.



VIDEO TAPES
Available Instructional Video series on Brazilian Jiu- Jitsu

The Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy (Rorion & Royce Gracie)has a Basic and Intermediate BJJ instructional tape series. Best for absolute beginners. Rorion is very detailed, patient, and more than comfortable explaining the techniques in front of the cameras.

Renzo Gracie / Craig Kukuk have their own BJJ instructional tape series. Their tapes correct many glossed over points and topics in Rorion & Royce's tapes especially in terms of vale tudo or streetfighting application of BJJ. Much more emphasis is placed on fighting an opponent in a vale tudo environment. For example, the "side-mount" or "cross-side" is covered as the topic of one tape. The tapes show a multitude of techniques.

Pedro Carvalho, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt produced his own multi-volumed "advanced" instructional video tapes on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. There's vale tudo footage of Pedro himself taking on strikers as well as one fight between a rather young-looking BJJ student fighting a striker. The striker easily gets brought down to the ground by the BJJ student and succumbs to a choke from behind. He has a second set out which emphasizes on vale tudo techniques and more advanced techniques.


Gracie Jiu-Jitsu In-Action Video Tapes 1 & 2
The two video tapes from the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy contain NHB matches (in the ring as well as private challenge matches at the Gracie Academy and a fight between Rickson Gracie and a Luta Livre fighter named Hugo Duarte on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro) with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters including Gracie family members. One tape features footage of Helio Gracie fighting Kato and Kimura.


History of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
This Japanese video should be made available in the US by the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy according to their newsletter. It has excellent photos of Helio and Carlos Gracie as well as old black & white film footage of them practicing techniques.

Vale Tudo Japan
This is an annual vale tudo event in Japan. The only concession is the use of light gloves when fighting. Rickson Gracie has fought in the first and secondtournament and not surprisingly won both. His web site has a merchandise page for info on purchasing video tapes of the events.

LUMAX CUP Tournament of J
This is a vale tudo-styled annual event in Japan. Competitors wear light gloves and must wear a Judo or Sambo gi (jacket). In 1995, Egan Inoue, an American blue belt in BJJ, fought his way into the finals and lost to a Japanese fighter with high rank in Judo in a match filled with awesome display of technique and counters.Egan returned in 1996 and fought his way into the finals and lost again to another fighter. Videos for this event are only available in Japan but is traded or sold by individuals on rec.martial.arts and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Discussion Forum.


Note: This is by no means a complete list.




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Top Photo: Rickson Gracie applies sangaku-jime (triangular choke).

Above animated GIF: Royce Gracie applies the same triangle choke.
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