All year, the 2021 jiu-jitsu season has shown signs that it could bring the changing of the guard, the rise of the next generation. Throughout the year, we’ve seen legacy champions fall to the young up-and-comers; we’ve seen new styles and strategies overthrow the more traditional ones.

The cross choke is one of the most fundamental submissions in jiu-jitsu. But it’s rarely applied successfully at the highest levels of competition. 

Fight To Win 152 featured several of the biggest names in the lightweight division, as well as a match between Romulo Barral and Gabriel Almeida, and the return of the Fight to Win Judo format. 

There’s a lot on the line at this weekend’s edition of the biggest party in grappling. 

There’s a lot on the line at this weekend’s edition of the biggest party in grappling. Fight to Win 152 will feature four of the major contenders for the lightweight podium at Pans next month. The co-main event will be a showdown between two of the top masters division competitors for a Fight to Win title. And Romulo Barral will return with plans to correct course after a disappointing Fight to Win debut last month.

Fight to Win will hit a major milestone this weekend in Dallas for its 150th edition on August 21. The main card will feature the return of three Fight to Win veterans, and the Fight to Win debut of seven-time world champ Romulo Barral. 

Romulo Barral is set to make his Fight To win debut Aug. 20 in Dallas against the Ulta-Heavyweight smashing machine Tanner Rice! 

Romulo Barral, Tye and Kade Ruotolo, Matheus Gabriel, Edwin Najmi, and Nicky Rod break down what they've been doing during the COVID-19 quarantine.

Since its inception in 1998, the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) World Championships has been the premier no-gi competition, starting as a way for athletes from various disciplines to test themselves. Initially taking place yearly and then moving to a biennial affair, there have been 13 ADCC events so far in its history.

Although jiu-jitsu academies may be closed for the foreseeable future, if you're lucky, you may be quarantined with a fellow practitioner, meaning you still have the chance to develop functional, practical jiu-jitsu skills through drilling and concept exploration. 

ADCC and IBJJF world champs Felipe Pena and Romulo Barral called into the 30th episode of the WNO Podcast on Monday, March 30th. 

FloGrappling is headed back to Brazil, streaming one of the biggest events of the year on April 25 in BJJ Stars. 

Today marks yet another shakeup to the divisions at the 2019 ADCC Worlds as Romulo Barral pulls out of the -99kg division and to be replaced with 2015 ADCC Absolute Champion Claudio Calasans.

Porrada: it’s not a new term, but it’s certainly enjoying a newfound mainstream notoriety for English-speaking jiu-jitsu practitioners.

Jiu-jitsu is known by many as the "gentle art," but it is far from gentle. The capacity to break bones, destroy joints, tear body parts, choke, suffocate, and render unconscious is not an unfortunate side effect — it's the primary goal of what we do.