🥋BJJ still needs its Hollywood blockbuster moment 🎥

QUESTION TIME

What Keeps You Up At 2 am?

As BJJ people, it’s our job, nay, our duty, to throw shade at the other combat arts.

Karate with all its crazy yelling, Boxing with its punishing CTE and Aikido with all its silly pretending … you get the picture.

As good as it feels to know we are better than them in almost every way - there is one aspect where they all categorically kick us to the curb: Movies 🍿 

Most of our fellow martial arts cousins have been responsible for some truly epic movies, but our beloved BJJ is truly lacking any decent Hollywood credits. I mean, hell, even Aikido gave us Steven Seagal and the best we’ve got so far is this piece of trash? 🤮

So while we patiently await a true blockbuster we’d be happy to call our own, this week, we look at some of the other epic flicks that the combat world has provided…

P.S. - There’s a tonne of great movies out there, and we know this isn’t the ultimate list, so there’s an option at the bottom to submit your favourite if we’ve missed it ✅

This week’s big question ⬇️

The last poll’s results:

Last time we asked you - “What Is Your Favourite BJJ Podcast?”

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 💪 Bulletproof For BJJ (15)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 💰 The BJJ Fanatics Podcast (3)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🧠 BJJ Mental Models (3)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤠 El Segundo (1)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🦥 The Chewjitsu Podcast (4)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🦍 The Raspberry Ape Podcast (0)

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Other (write in and tell us)

Your lords in lifting and bringers of The Weekly Fix, Joey & JT, will be stoked to see this one as their Bulletproof For BJJ podcast has knocked it out of the park with you lot! ⚾️

We are big fans of the Joey & JT experience, too - lots of great strength and conditioning insights paired with some good stories and class-A banter.

One of you guys wrote in to suggest one for the crowd from some of Jocko’s mates. Speaking of - Jocko’s pod is pretty solid too 🔥 

WHATS HAPPENING?

This Weeks Tap’s ✋, Nap’s 🥱 & Snap’s

We hear you. Time is money 💰 - you want your BJJ news, but you’ve got sh*t to do 📝 … those training partners won’t tap themselves. Let’s get it 👇

1.) PIXLEY THE PURPLE BELT 🟪: is out here really highlighting the question - ‘Do BJJ belts even matter?’

After sending multiple-time black belt world champion and ADCC favourite Nicholas Meregali to the operating theatre after too many flights on Pixley Air 🧑‍✈️ - Pedigo’s Michael Pixley is now shaping up to take on CJI’s inaugural Million Dollar Big Boi Champ - Nicky Rod.

Much like Nicky Rod ‘The Black Belt Slayer’ was doing long before receiving his own black belt, Pixley is walking the same path as a purple belt - stamping his mark on the competitive BJJ scene and making the belt system look outdated.

Both of these guys are strong wrestlers on a world-beating tear - so their main event clash at UFC FPI 8 on October 10 is definitely one to put on your calendar 🗓️ → more here.

2.) THE SPICY ACAI STRIKES AGAIN 😬: with Fellipe Andrew & Yatan Bueno popped in recent USADA tests, resulting in both athletes copping a respective 3-year and 2-year ban from the IBJJF.

Furthermore, the punishment is retroactive, meaning that both Yatan and Felipe have had their recent titles stripped, and the original 2nd place athletes receive a nice little letter saying ‘Soz, you’re actually #1 now!” 🤩

The reality is that there is a simple fix: stop taking steroids if you like your acai a little spicy, then you should also like your competition’s unsanctioned 🤷 → more here.

 3.) ONE CHAMPIONSHIP IS MAKING MOVES 🪩: by not only signing a key deal with Shoyoroll as a gear and apparel sponsor - but also signing Tom DeBlass as their VP of Grappling - all in a week’s work! 😮‍💨

ONE Championship has long been celebrated by most in the combat community for its exciting matchups, innovative rulesets, martial-arts-loving founder & safer approach to athlete weight cutting.

However, not all that shimmers is gold, with ONE also accused by many of favouritism and personal grudges, resulting in many competitors being stuck in contracts and frozen out of fights while in their prime. 

Is it true? No idea. But according to one hot take, it might all come to a head soon as the business itself is in some financial hot water and likely to go under → more here.

The Quick Hitters ⚾️

• Who actually grapples without good coffee? ☕️

• There’s a big Rickson film in the works 🤩

• Joe Rogan is not a CJI Pit fan 🚫

• $500k donated to Tap Cancer Out 💰

• Gabi Garcia is now a Guinness World Record holder 🏆

BY BULLETPROOF FOR BJJ

The Weekly Fix

In the last edition, we looked at the Top 5 best bang-for-buck BJJ strength exercises you can do to up your game. This week, we get some tips on how to keep getting after it when we cop a dreaded yet inevitable injury! 💪

How To Keep Training When Injured:

It needs to be said that your time in jiu-jitsu will almost certainly be plagued with injury at some point.

It sucks, but it’s not the end of the world - and when dealt with properly, you can use this time to not only study up and sharpen your mental game, but actually get stronger and more mobile too. 😎

Using his own experience with injury, Joey takes us through how you can make the most of your injury time to keep yourself as sane, fit & strong as possible. ✅

If you’re digging The Weekly Fix - sign up for your 7-day free trial with Bulletproof For BJJ and take the app for a spin! 👇

WHAT’S SO FUNNY?

The Meme Open Mat:

20 hours is a damn long time. Choose carefully👇…

You like memes huh!? (of course you do). Well, we have bucketloads 🪣 of premium, high-grade OG memes for you to share with your BJJ crew…

LET’S GET TECHNICAL

The Good Option:

The Craig Jones Invitational treated us to some insane performances and showcased some truly beautiful jiu-jitsu #chefskiss

As with every high-profile competition, some athletes didn’t quite live up to the hype, while others came from the proverbial shadows and caused some major upsets.

One of the dark horses on many people’s lists was Levi Jones-Leary. Whether you like his style or not - he well and truly put himself on the grappling map with a guard retention and leg attack system that seriously troubled - and beat almost everyone he faced.

LIMI BJJ has done a phenomenal breakdown of Levi and many other guard players in this video. So, whether you want to learn to play guard like Levi or figure out how to finally get past him and his mates - this one is worth a watch 👀

Grab a cuppa ☕️ and notepad 📝 👇

The Not-So-Good Option:

You should always be wary of the over-caloried character that’s been training in a high-intensity combat sport for years and years…

They either know so much technique and have become so efficient that their chosen martial art stopped being a hard workout a long time ago.

Or, they are totally full of crap and have brainwashed a bunch of students into believing that when they jiggle their rig, people hit the deck.

How to know which is which, though? Just trust your gut 😉👇

YOU WIN, WE WIN!

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