🥋 Aim To Build A Better BJJ Game

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 thangs to do … those training partners won’t tap themselves.

Here’s what’s doing the rounds in Jiu-Jitsu this week. Choose your own adventure. 👇

• 12 of BJJ’s best ‘up-and-comers’ … I think we need a bigger list!

• The subtle art of getting better in BJJ … when you’ve got a lot on.

• Anyone up for a Greek holiday? … I hear it’s pretty cheap over there nowadays.

• Dillon Danis pivots again … and wants another boxing match.

• Joe Rogan’s advice for us older grapplers … from the great JJM.

• Andrew Wiltse is back online … and looking to turn a new leaf?

• Nicky Ryan coins ‘The Nickotine’… move over ‘Ruotolotine’.

• Digitsu has launched an epic BJJ database … if you’re so inclined.

SUPPORT YOUR BJJ CREATORS

This week, we’ve got JiuGo - an epic product for the youngins brought to you by a good friend of the newsletter and one-half of the Bulletproof For BJJ team, JT. 💪

JiuGo, written by Bulletproof’s own JT, is here to inspire your young grapplers to be the hero of their own BJJ story.

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QUESTION TIME

What Keeps You Up At 2 am?

Have you ever seen footage of yourself, read an old journal or heard your voice back on a recording and thought - “shiiii…is that really me?”. 🧐

Many of us find it pretty uncomfortable to film ourselves or write our thoughts down, but when it comes to BJJ, recording your progress can be super useful.

It allows you to identify your weak points and find areas of your game to work on … or ignore, but at least you’ll now know what you don’t know.

Moreover, if you've ever recorded yourself rolling, you'll soon notice that the razor-sharp technique you feel in the moment often doesn’t translate the same way on video.

So, are you recording and keeping track of your progress? Or would you prefer not to know? … over to you … 👇

This week’s big question

The last poll’s results:

Last time, we asked you - “Ecological Or Logical? What's Your Approach?”

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🌲 - Ecological is great - dynamic and realistic

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🥋 - Drills & reps are where it's at

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😏 - Good training requires a bit of both

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 🤷‍♂️ - What the hell are we all arguing about?

Well, what a well-balanced crew we have here! As expected, most of you see the benefit in both drilling and positional sparring (sorry, ecological training 😬), while a bunch of you reckon we should drop it with semantics and just get back to training ✅

One of you also dropped a great bit of BJJ philosophy that we couldn’t pass over…

BY BULLETPROOF FOR BJJ

The Weekly Fix

Last time, the lads went through the key tips and tricks to building your best Bulletproof Body^TM for 2025.

This week, we look at how you can build your BJJ game from the ground up and make some solid progress, fast. 💨

How to Build a Personalized Game in Jiu-Jitsu

Jiu-jitsu is many things. Easy ain’t one of them.

No matter how far down the path you are, you’ll inevitably hit a point where it feels like your development stalls, you aren’t getting any better, and you don’t know how to get it all back on track.

It can take a bit of reflection and a good, hard, honest look at your approach - but with the proper framework and action plan (like this ☝️), you’ll be back on the up in no time.

And 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:

Ain’t so tough now, hey big fella?👇…

FREAK FOR THE TECHNIQUE

Underhook DLR To The Back

The De La Riva with the underhook setup is getting a lot of love in No-Gi land lately, particularly since the likes of Levi Jones-Leary used it to terrorise everyone at CJI last year.

It feels like there are cool setups popping up everywhere for it at the moment - such as this one that puts their hands to the mat and attacks the back!

Grab a cuppa ☕️ and notepad 📝 👇

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