Archive for 'BJJ'

No-Gi Berimbolo With A Ninja Roll

No-Gi Berimbolo With A Ninja Roll

  Dan Faggella is a BJJ Academy Owner, No Gi Pan Am Champion at 130 pounds, and recognized expert in lightweight grappling. Dan writes or Jiu Jitsu Magazine, Jiu Jitsu Style, MMA Sports Mag, – and [...]

Pursuing The Leg Lock Finish From The 50/50 Guard with Marcus ‘Buchecha’ Almeida

Pursuing The Leg Lock Finish From The 50/50 Guard with Marcus ‘Buchecha’ Almeida

Dan Faggella is a BJJ Academy Owner, No Gi Pan Am Champion at 130 pounds, and recognized expert in the area of leg locks. Dan writes or Jiu Jitsu Magazine, Jiu Jitsu Style, MMA Sports Mag, [...]

Rafael Mendes – Age Is Nothing But A Number

Rafael Mendes – Age Is Nothing But A Number

Have you ever wanted to do something in which you were told “No, you’re too young!”? I’m sure we’ve all been there once or twice in our lifetime, and it probably didn’t sit too well with [...]

Guilherme Mendes – Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Assassin

Guilherme Mendes – Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Assassin

Dan Faggella is a No-Gi Gold Medal Pan Am Champion at 130 pounds, and recognized Expert in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world.  He has produced over a dozen Brazilian Jiu Jitsu DVD Instructional Videos & Books [...]

Breaking The Mold & Setting New Trends In The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World with Marcus Almeida!

Marcus Buchecha Almeida is a Multi-time BJJ World Champion and is recognized as being an innovator in his approach to strategy and technique. He is offering samples of his BJJ DVD “Total Control System” with Free [...]

Keenan Cornelius vs. Sinistro: Match Breakdown

Match Breakdown: Kennan Cornelius vs. Sinistro Dan “Micro” Faggella is a No-Gi Gold Medal Pan Am Champion and a recognized Expert Analyst in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World.  Dan has produced over a dozen Brazilian Jiu [...]

Marcus Almeida vs. Andre Galvao-Open Weight Class Final (2013 Pan Americans)

Dan Faggella is a BJJ Pan Am Champion and writer for BJJ.ORG, Jiu Jitsu Magazine, and more. His focus is the study of world class athletes. You can visit the linked page here to get your [...]

Match Breakdown: Kennan Cornelius vs. Weam Motei

Dan Faggella is a BJJ Academy Owner, No Gi Pan Am Champion at 130 pounds, and recognized expert in the area of leg locks and lightweight BJJ. Dan writes or Jiu Jitsu Magazine, Jiu Jitsu Style, [...]

Marcelo Garcia On: Getting MEAN Rear Naked Chokes

Marcelo Garcia On: Getting MEAN Rear Naked Chokes

Back on the Keyboard again today, and pretty darn souped up about writing his week about Chokes and the best “Choke-ers” in the BJJ Universe. Today I wanted to talk a little bit about what is undeniably [...]

FootlockFriday: Rousimar Palhares-Heel Hook vs. David Avellan

FootlockFriday: Rousimar Palhares-Heel Hook vs. David Avellan

Dan Faggella is a BJJ Academy Owner, No Gi Pan Am Champion at 130 pounds, and recognized expert in the area of leg locks. Dan is offering a Free DVD featuring breakdowns of some of Toquinho’s [...]