🥋 Trump is a blue belt (but not THAT Trump)

WHATS HAPPENING?

This Week’s 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. 👇

• A sad day for Martial Arts … as a legend and pioneer passes away.

• This guy gets DQ’ed … for letting the boys get some air.

• Roberto Jimenez is done with getting peanuts … and fires shots at IBJJF.

• Ivanka Trump is apparently a blue belt … so look out Greenland!

• AOJ wins their first team title … cementing their position as geniuses in Gi.

• This is a great 10-minute watch … as is everything from his channel.

• Gordon Ryan drops a few more details … on the multi-million dollar UFC cash injection and BJJ reality show

SUPPORT YOUR BJJ CREATORS

This week, we’ve got one of the best grappling platforms on the planet - Submeta by Lachlan Giles 💪

Submeta is like if Google Maps and BJJ had a baby—and that baby could heel hook you. 👶

Designed by the cerebral assassin himself, Lachlan Giles, this online platform goes way beyond just showing techniques. It helps you build an actual gameplan, understand positional hierarchies, and stop rolling like a mindless maniac.

There’s heaps of content for all levels, and he’s bringing in other top grapplers too (including Levi & the B-Team). If you’re serious about going from "decent roll" to "absolute problem" — this is your move. 👇

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QUESTION TIME

What Keeps You Up At 2 am?

“Your Jiu-Jitsu stinks” is a phrase no one wants to hear mid-roll … in fact, arguably, the only worse phrase to cop mid-roll might be “you stink.”

There’s no getting away from the fact that jiu-jitsu is a close-contact sport. We spend hours mixing sweat, playing with feet and thrusting our groins into each other’s face (they call it a ‘triangle’ apparently).

The nature of the game dictates that we have to accept some degree of stankiness - however, it also means we all have a need, nay, a responsibility, to take our personal hygiene seriously.

And despite every coach worth their salt making this very clear to everyone who signs up, we’ve all trained with characters that don’t just smell like a heavy open mat, they smell more like a Gi that’s never seen the inside of a washing machine.

So - it begs the question, how do you address the guy / gal that needs a bit of a ‘mat etiquette’ reminder? Are you avoiding it and hoping they are just having a bad day? Or are you a ‘cruel to be kind’ kinda person? … 🤔

Over to you … 👇

This week’s big question

The last poll’s results:

Last time, we asked you - “BJJ's getting bigger every year... but for how much longer?”

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🚀 - Many more years, we are just getting started

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ 🤷‍♂️ - Maybe a few more yet, but it's definitely limited

🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👎 - I reckon we've already peaked

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 😎 - I'm already training Sambo on the side just in case

Most of us think BJJ is on the up and up, or at least, still has a lot of gas left in the tank yet.

A few of you think we’ve hit our growth limits already, but thank Helio, no one’s jumped ship and started training Sambo … yet.

We’ve also had a rat amongst the pigeons in our comments section 👀👇

BY BULLETPROOF FOR BJJ

The Weekly Fix

Last time, we looked at the power of regular soft tissue work to help your body recover from those brutal rolls.

This week, JT & Joey look at a potential ‘counter-cultural move’ in BJJ right now - the re-emergence of Gi jiu-jitsu popularity. 😎

Is the Gi making a comeback!?…

While BJJ has its origins and traditions rooted in the Gi, modern BJJ has made a major shift towards favouring No-Gi grappling.

It’s typically faster paced with higher submission rates and, as a result, draws more attention and therefore bigger bags of prize money. 💰

We’ve seen a number of top-level Gi BJJ athletes like Levi Jones Leary, Nicholas Meregali and Tainan Dalpra all make moves to No Gi competition recently to chase those bigger bucks, however, this week threw us a little uno reverso as none other than J-Rod donned the pajamas.

As an ADCC silver medalist and firm representative of Anti-Gi jiu-jitsu, seeing J-Rod getting after it in the Gi and cross-training with Gi guys raises the question - are we about to see a Gi comeback?

Hit play above, Joey & JT run through it in the clip above - arguing the case for both sides and whether or not it’s just a big nothing-burger…

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:

What’s a torn ligament between friends!? 😬👇…

FREAK FOR THE TECHNIQUE

Bad Day To Be An ACL

There are only a few things that are universally true in jiu-jitsu.

You don’t want to clap on 2. You don’t want to get staph. And you don’t want Garry Tonon on your legs.

Unfortunately for the dual grappling and UFC legend that is Gilbert Burns, he experienced #3 (and may or may not have clapped on 2 🤷).

This is a great display of peak Garry leglock mastery at the highest levels.

Grab a cuppa ☕️ and notepad 📝 👇