Do you think you could curl these?
Stainless steel- 108lb- 2.5 inch grip! These things are crazy.
Just a quick note, Ricardo and Mike are some of the strongest BJJ players that I know and have trained with. Maybe a decade ago when Mike was still a bluebelt one of his favorite grip training methods was hanging from thick tree limbs. It worked and it seems to have endured.
And Ricky? Forget it, once he gets his grips on you it’s over.
You know how important a strong and endurant grip is in BJJ. Chances are that your first few matches of BJJ, with or without the gi made your realize how much your grip is involved.
Very frequently I receive questions about training tools that I can recommend and use within our BJJ conditioning plans.
We use several tools to increase our grip strength and our FatGripz is one of our favorite.
These things are versatile, go with you everywhere and can go on almost any piece of equipment, barbell,dumbbell,Pull-up bars and even most band attachments.
After seeing Strength Coach Martin Rooney offer up this pull-up challenge to UFC Champ Frankie Edgar we started seeing how our BJJ athletes would measure up.
So far so good.
We’ve gotten above 50 reps each time we’ve tested.
Check out Tim Hart’s Pull-up challenge video.
In this video is Ricardo Migliarese of Balance Studios in Philadelphia and BJJ Blackbelt under Relson Gracie breaks out 54 pull-ups.
Rotation is a large part of many sports, combat sports and BJJ are no different.
However, the ability to slow down and resist rotation is equally, if not more important than your ability to produce rotations.
The Grappler is one of our favorite training tools for addressing rotational/anti-rotational training for our BJJ & Judo players.
There are many variations that you can work with the Grappler. We’re only highlighting 2 exercises here that I feel are very beneficial to BJJ & Judo players.
There must be some reason why certain BJJ Players win more matches than others.
Said another way…if two equally skilled BJJ athletes compete…why does one get to go home the winner and the other as a loser?
Is it simply a random occurrence- the proverbial, “That’s the way the cookie crumbles?”
Is it that one BJJ athlete had a greater desire to win?
To be sure, desire, will-to-win and luck all contribute to the outcome of competitions, but there is another factor that often isn’t considered or even discussed.
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Hi, I'm Jason C. Brown. I'm a coach and athlete obsessed with human movement, martial arts and walking the path of mastery. I help BJJ players move better, play better and enjoy their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu more.
