Learn a sweep from one of the aces on Bitetti Combat 12 card

The Bitetti Combat promotion will be returning to the Rocinha Sports Complex this coming September 8 to showcase some up-and-coming Brazilian domestic talent

For the 12th installment of the event, Amaury Bitetti has drummed up two GPs—one under-61 k and the other under-66 kg—, as well as a number of superfights and a title fight, for a total ten fights on the card.
In the GPs: Rodolfo Marques of Nova União, Pedro Nobre of BTT, William Viana of TFT and Sheymon Moraes of Team Nogueira will be doing battle for the under-61 kg GP title.

At featherweight, under-66 kg, Marcos Vinicius of NineNine-PE will take on Toninho Furia of BTT, while at the other end of the bracket, Bruno Caveira of Team Nogueira will square off with Cylderlan Louco of PRVT.

“I trained a lot. I’ll be going in there to strike, but if it goes to the ground, I’m a black belt Jiu-Jitsu and will put my skills to practice,” said Marcos.

In the following video, Marcos Vinicius teaches a sweep exclusively for grapplator.blogspot.com readers. In it, he warns of the importance of breaking the opponent’s posture and keeping him from forcing his way past guard.







In the evening’s main event, welterweight GP champion André Chatuba will defend his belt against Cassiano Tytshyo, and the winner will likely appear on the next season of TUF Brazil or the October UFC Rio 3.

“Those are rumors that surfaced on Sherdog.com. I can’t confirm anything yet, but where there’s smoke there’s fire,” said Osiris Maia, one of the organizers of the event.

Now Luis Carlos Niquimba of Jacaré team and Fabio Campos of Xgym, two fighters from needy communities, will face off in the beginners bout.

Another attraction is the all female fight between boxer and MMA newcomer Duda Yancovich and Luana Teixeira.

Stay tuned to GRACIEMAG.com for more breaking news regarding Bitetti Combat 12.

Bitetti Combat 12
Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
September 8, 2012

André Santos  “Chatuba”  (Relma Combat/Team Nogueira) vs Cassiano Tytschyo (Chute Boxe)
Duda Yancovich (Team Nogueira ) vs Luana Teixeira (Paraná)
Luis Carlos “Niquimba”(Jacaré) vs Fabio Campos (XGYM)
GP 66kg

Marcos Vinicius (NineNine) vs Gleristone Santos “Toninho Fúria“(BTT)
Bruno Machado “Caveira” (Team Nogueira) vs Cylderlan Silva” Porco Louco” (PRVT)
Preliminary 66kg

Guido Cannetti (GOA Argentina) vs Rafael Dias (BTT)
GP 61kg

Willian Viana (Tatá) vs Pedro Nobre (BTT)
Rodolfo Marques (NU) vs Sheymon Moraes (Team Nogueira)
Preliminary 61kg

Sandro China (Careca) vs Pedro Henrique “Kezem” (GFT)

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tips grappling

People take notes for many different reasons.

 You take notes in school so you can study, you jot down notes when you need to remember what to pick up at the store, and you may take notes when you have an idea that you want to try out or check on. I know I do in these situations, so I have some questions for you.

 * Do you bring a notebook into class with you when you train? If so, what do you do with it in class?

 * Do you have a notebook that you write in at home after training? If so, what kind of notes do you write down when you get home? * Do you have a specific way you take notes? Is there a system?

* Do you review your notes that you take? Does it help you remember techniques or make you better?

 Do you even do anything with them?

 For the first 2 years of my training I wrote down every single technique that I learned. I would go home and then type out every single detail that I could remember.

 I would categorize the movements, date them, and I even made a color key so I knew right away what type of category each technique fell under. Around the 2 year mark I compiled about 400 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu techniques that I learned in class. I was a true collector of techniques. I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything.

 Now am I saying you should do what I did? Definitely not! Why? Because I took all of that time to write down all of these techniques and I must have only reviewed them only 10 times max. I realized that just because I wrote down everything I learned didn’t mean that I was going to remember everything. Another thing I realized was that the task was very monotonous and didn’t have any real significance in regards to what I needed to get better at in my grappling. It turned into the equivalence of collecting baseball cards but instead I was just collecting techniques.

 Once I realized that this approach wasn’t really benefiting me, I didn’t stop taking notes but I decided to change my approach so that if I was going to take notes it was going to be in a way that would actually help me get better. Here is what I did:

* I stopped writing down every technique that I learned * I only focused on things I was having trouble with. If you focus on actual problems you are facing then it will be more likely that you’ll remember what you learned and it will help you improve your actual game right away.

* Everything I wrote down in training was in the form of a question or I would have a question at least related to everything I wrote down. Why? Because if I wrote it down in question form, then I would be well prepared to ask that question to someone who may know the answer and it will help them relay the information easier back to me.

 * I realized that the one important aspect of my training that I wasn’t taking notes on was my rolling. So after each training session I would go home and I would write down questions that related to that nights rolling. The reason I started doing this was because during rolling you experience issues that you really are having trouble with. These are areas that affect what you are actually trying to do, so these are the things you should focus on more then anything. Examples of the types of things I would write down after rolling would be.

* How can I stop my opponent from turning their hip down on me in half guard? * What can I do to open my opponent’s closed guard if I’m having trouble? * When I’m in the guard I keep getting caught in a triangle choke. How can I prevent this? * How can I stop my partner from getting the guard back when I have them in side control position? * I went for a hug choke but for some reason I couldn’t get it. What was I doing wrong?

 * How can I stop from getting mounted? * After I would write down the question, I would reflect on what happened in regards to that question I asked. The reason I would do this is for a couple of reasons actually. It will help me try to figure out what I might have been doing wrong myself and it will also help me tell my instructor what I felt happening during the situation so he can better assist me in fixing the problem. For example if I had the question “What can I do to open my opponent’s closed guard?” I would write down what I remembered happening such as: * He kept pulling down on my head. * I couldn’t open my training partners guard by using my elbows. * When I tried to put my knee under my partner’s butt I would lose my balance.

 Additional Tips To make this even better you should take advantage of your breaks between rolling. When you are done rolling each time go straight to your notebook and jot down one issue you want to address that happened during that rolling session. Whether it was a problem you had that your opponent was causing or a problem you had that you couldn’t quite figure out to do yourself. If you roll four times during one training session then you should have four different issues to address.

 Or you can mark off a particular issue if it happens again in a different rolling session with an asterisk, which is noting that particular issue as a primary focus that you need to address. You don’t have to think of a question to write during this time. Just write down something to help you remember the issue. Then when you go home take each issue that you wrote down and create a question for each one. You now should have four questions related to your training in regards to what happened during your live rolling sessions.

 These questions will be more important then any technique that you decide to write down because they are issues that you really had trouble with. They happened while you were going against a resisting opponent. The goal is to improve upon your current game as much as possible. Expand it and make it better. As you train more and more you should have a list of questions in your notebook related to your current issues.

 Some questions may come up frequently and those particular questions you should mark down as “very important”. Those should be the areas you address more then others because you want to prevent yourself from experiencing the same problems over and over again. Remember also to note your experiences in regards to the situation you created the question about so you have some information to feed to your instructor when you approach him.

 If you have readily prepared questions and experiences corresponding to that question you will help your instructor a lot in regards to them being able to help you even more. Now that you are building a list of questions in regards to your game, what can you do with those questions? *


This question is very important because it’s a real problem you had. Usually one or two questions max (mostly one) is good because other students may have questions also.



 * Use these question so you can be prepared if you decide to take a private lesson with someone. To have a set list of questions when you attend a private lesson is a great courtesy to both you and your instructor you’re meeting with. It will make the lesson much more productive, it will run smoother, and you’ll get a lot more out of it.

 * You can even use these questions to ask fellow grapplers on the internet and see what they can come up with or what experiences they have in relation to your issue.

 The main point is to have actual questions that related to real problems you’re having in your training. Don’t waste your rolling time.

 That is the time where you should actually be taking notes. After each training session you should have a minimum of two questions created related to what happened when you were rolling with your partners. You may not get a chance to address each question right away and your list of questions my build up faster then they are checked off as “addressed” but at least you know exactly what it is that you need to work on and what it is you should ask for help on.

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Fernando Vieira Instructional PART 1 Passing the shin-on-shin guard Jits Magazine

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Grappling and Submission Wrestling Are A Great Base For Mixed Martial Arts

If you are training in mixed martial arts, then having a sound grasp of ground fighting techniques is essential for an all-around game. A close range technique, coupled with a decent striking ability allows the fighter to be confident in all situations. Submission wrestling or submission grappling allows the smaller fighter to negate much of the reach and weight advantage of larger opponents.

Being proficient in these techniques requires dedicating time in training your cardiovascular fitness. Drilling particular moves so they are second nature, and working this into regular sparring, so that you are a step closer to performing them in a real situation is essential for submission grappling. Submission wrestling concentrates on being in control over your opponent and not bludgeoning them into submission. Cardiovascular fitness is very important in submission wrestling.

It is easy to get gassed, or be too breathless after a couple of minutes of work. This can make all the difference, when most grappling techniques require you to move at speed. Working on your fitness with a form of intense cardiovascular training is important. Circuit training, barbell complexes, interval training will help develop the endurance to go through a bout. It is one area that can be improved upon without a training partner and vital if you are to become a proficient fighter.

Technique in submission grappling and submission wrestling is developed from intensive drilling of clinch positions, joint locks, chokes and take downs. Eventually, drills should encompass a speedy and efficient transition from a clinch to a submission, while maintaining control over your own balance and your opponent. Not only should the technique to entering a clinch, or a submission be drilled, but also the counter and escape techniques. However, it is far better to teach and master the submission technique first, before learning a counter, so that you have confidence in the drill. There are a myriad of different techniques from different positions. Drilling the techniques over and over allows them to become second nature, and allow you the confidence to rapidly and fluidly move from one position to the next.

The last component of working in a technique is to transition into light sparring so that you can practice your submission grappling and submission wrestling techniques into competitive situations. Sparring will teach you how to conserve your energy and teach you when to use certain techniques. Sparring can be set up to ensure that a certain technique is used and practiced. For example, practicing take downs and transitions will be trained if the sparring starts with the training partners standing apart. It is important that the sparring sessions that you do are structured, so that you use what you have learned, rather than allowing sessions to degenerate.

 training sessions are typically divided into cardiovascular conditioning, drilling, and then a quick session for sparring. This helps prevent injury, and gets both body and mind warmed up for the sparring session. It is worthwhile training against a variety of different partners, those who are bigger, or smaller, and of different standards.

To learn more about submission grappling or submission wrestling 
Jack B. Starkey

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