Six-time world champion Robson Moura is giving a 2 day seminar in Hollywood, FL in the beginning of September. He will be teaching gi, no-gi and even a kids only seminar. He’s also available for private and semi-private lessons.





I’m helping to promote this since it’s being held at the gym I just gave my seminar at. I was talking to Mike, the gym owner, and he said that last year almost no one showed up for Robson’s last one, which was terrible considering how great of a teacher and competitor…

I’ll be down in Miami next weekend and I’m going to be teaching as guest instructor at Leo Kirby’s school on Saturday morning. I’ll be giving a seminar on attacking the turtle with the reverse omoplata, taking the back and the brabo/d’arce choke.

I’ve been putting a ton of thought and effort into planning this, hammering out how to pack as much material in as possible without making it confusing or falling into the “here’s a neat move” trap. What’s been interesting to me has been figuring out how to…

As I said in my first batch of notes, what made this Marcelo seminar special was that he was given a chance to teach aspects of his game that aren’t already covered on his instructionals or previous seminars.

I’ve seen Marcelo criticized for teaching the same seminars wherever he goes, so that if you’ve been to one, you’ve seen them all. I don’t think this is his fault. Most people want to learn his signature moves and that’s what they pay him to teach, so he’s stuck showing nothing but armdrags,…

I got back yesterday from a two day Marcelo Garcia seminar down at American Top Team in Hollywood, FL. It was a great experience, learned a ton of great techniques and had a lot of fun.

The theme for the whole seminar was giving Marcelo a chance to teach the material he uses in his everyday training but rarely gets to teach since most people only want him to do seminars on his signature moves. Marcelo said he was grateful to get to take a break from teaching the standard armdrags,…

Leo Kirby is hosting Marcelo Garcia for a two day no-gi seminar at American Top Team Hollywood.

As you’ll find repeated by anyone who has trained with Marcelo, he stresses very heavily the importance of imposing your game, fighting on your terms and always initiating the action. The lessons from the seminar where to built around aggressively and purposefully engaging the opponent, starting with pulling guard (day 1) or going for the takedown (day 2).

1) Single leg from clinch

You and your opponent are standing mostly upright. He may have a neck grip but don’t worry about it much. Focus on keeping elbow control, pummeling to grip his…