Todd Richards

With all of the news that has come out in the Jiu-Jitsu community this last week. Thing that keeps coming up in my mind is that WE need to do better. MEN in the Jiu-Jitsu community need to do better at calling out this sort of behavior and stepping in to stop it. MEN need to take responsibility for their actions and the actions of other MEN that make this sport less safe. We need to do better about barring these people from our community. People do so much harm, make a non-appology, disappear...

Getting SMASHED sucks especially in Jiu-jitsu. A common thing that happens with newer practitioners is that it also introduces a panic response. This response can make you struggle to escape from the bottom in ways that leave you vulnerable to many submissions. Learning to be calm under pressure is an essential skill in Jiu-jitsu. Dealing with the claustrophobic effect of being on the bottom can be very difficult. For many practitioners it can be a large block to their success in learning how...

Have you ever been stuck under someone in side control? It sucks, a lot especially if that person is like me and is a high calorie grappler. Having the proper tools to get out from under someone is an essential part of jiu-jitsu because no one wants to spend 6 minutes pinned under someone slowly losing hope that they will get another full breath. First things first is your body positioning, if you are flat on your back then it is going to be much harder to escape than not. I like to utilize a...