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How does a musician rewrite the language of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and submit a Gracie legend at ADCC?
This is the story of Eddie Bravo — the student of Jean Jacques Machado who questioned everything about the gi, invented a complete no-gi system from scratch, and proved it on the biggest stage when he submitted Royler Gracie at ADCC 2003 with the Twister.
From the Rubber Guard and Lockdown to the Electric Chair and the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu empire, we trace how Bravo turned no-gi grappling from “jiu-jitsu without the uniform” into its own technical language — and built an ecosystem of schools, books, and competition formats like EBI and Combat Jiu-Jitsu to make it stick.
Thank you
This was really good. Love the illustration
Rubber guard is real good for your knees.
I have a hard time against good rubber guard giys
Great stuff, can’t be understated how “naming” positions and submissions really made the learning process so much easier. Crazy Japanese names from Judo that 99% of us don’t understand, or unnamed transitional positions make it more difficult to remember things, with those “unique” names and definitions, it really helped people learn and remember things…especially with these unique and unseen positions he came up with.
Gi sales is the sweetest plum
