March 2023 brings a new monthly theme to us at Revolution BJJ:  escapes!  The good news is that all of your training partners are good at passing the guard. The bad news is (also) that they're good at passing guard, so you need to make sure your escapes are on point.  This month, we'll focus on… Read More

It's February, and we're focusing on passing the guard.  Last month, everyone worked hard to improve their guard maintenance, and as a result, guards are now much harder to pass!  We'll turn our attention to the knee cut, leg drag, X-pass, Kimura passes, and a ton more this month as we focus on improving our… Read More

It's hard to believe that 2023 is already here!  To ring in the new year, Revolution BJJ will turn our BJJ focus on guard maintenance.  All of our regularly scheduled adult BJJ classes will center around guard pass prevention and "recovery before the pass", making it frustratingly annoying for anyone to try to get around your legs… Read More

December 2022 brings another year-end to Revolution BJJ, and another opportunity for us to focus all of our regularly scheduled adult BJJ classes on two closely connected positions:  butterfly and half guard. For this month, we're looking at how to establish and maintain both positions, how they're connected, and what to do (submit, sweep, or otherwise improve your… Read More

This November at Revolution BJJ, all of our regularly scheduled adult BJJ classes will feature a deep dive on dominant positions.  We'll think about how mount, back mount, side control, knee on stomach, and lots of variations therein work, and we'll go over how to maintain the position and set up a submission, along with the opposite… Read More

All of our regularly scheduled adult BJJ classes will focus on the omoplata and triangle positions (exceptions: judo and our intro programs).  While both are submissions, they're also positions, and we'll explore maintaining the position, ways to finish, some escapes, and plenty of combinations and setups.  This is a great month to be creative! Revolution BJJ is currently… Read More

I've consistently weighed in on the longstanding "gi or no-gi" debate in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu community, showing the case for training in the gi here, and the no-gi case here.  I'll give you the TL;DR version, in case you don't want to read my poetic diatribes from a decade ago:  it's a silly debate. … Read More

For many of us, the armbar from closed guard may be the entry point into the endless rabbit hole of Jiu Jitsu techniques. It probably was one of the first submissions you achieved on a training partner and one of the first techniques that your training partner caught you with. That does not, however, mean… Read More