Hey guys, I hope you’re all well and enjoyed the interview with Rickson Gracie black belt Luis Heredia here on KombatClinic.com. I have another great FREE article/interview to share with over the next few days – BJJ black Belt Steve Maxwell – but first need your help once again. Here’s how I need your help and you get to read the interview: At a quick glance this morning the KombatClinic.com facebook community was at 723 members whilst the KombatClinic.com ‘fan page’ had reached 386. In order for me to upload the …

Hey guys,
I thought I’d upload this brief post as it something we are doing at my academy with all the members and thought it might be cool to get some of the readers on board as well – it’s all about the participation!
Here is the challenge: February 2010 – 28 days or 4 weeks (depending on how pedantic you are). For those 28 days we want to create a recorded log of exercise for the entire month from all the readers here on KombatClinic.com. CrossFit WOD’s, Ginastica Natural, Speed/Agility/Quickness sessions, …

by David Webb, 28th January 2010
Luis “Limao” Heredia is one of a select few. Head Coach at Maui Jiu Jitsu in Hawaii he started Jiu Jitsu aged 14 in his native Brazil, soon afterwards he was granted access to THE most famous of martial arts legacies – the Gracie’s, a student under Master Helio Gracie and his sons, Rickson and Royler his skills were honed on the mats of the famous Gracie Humaita school until he was invited by Rickson to travel to the United States to help spread the …

The rationale for writing this brief post was met over a Grande soy almond latte in Starbucks. You read Val Worthington’s nemesis [the sauce] is diet coke well, soy almond latte is mine and at £3.00 a pop it’s a little more expensive too, anyway, I was perusing an edition of the Sunday Times sports section when I came across an article concerning age and competitive sportsmen and women. The raison d’être for the piece seemed to be the imminent return of Michael Schumacher, the seven times Formula One motor …

 
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an art/sport characterised by ground fighting. More so than just being the most effective and efficient sport for groundwork, BJJ has it very own peculiar and largely unique positions to launch techniques from.
One of these is the ‘Guard’ (“do-osae” in Judo or the “body-scissors” in catch-wrestling). According to wikipedia: whilst “in the Guard, the practitioner is on their back controlling an opponent with their legs. The practitioner pushes and pulls with the thighs or feet to upset the balance and limit the movements of their opponent. …