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Gameness Pro Team at Pan Kids 2023

Gameness Pro Team Shines at Pan Kids 2023: A Triumph of B...

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Gameness Air Pro Gi 2.0: A Winning Combination of Lightne...

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    Gameness Athletes Boast Standout Performances at the 2023 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship

    The 2023 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship witnessed an awe-inspiring display of skills and determination by the Gameness Pro Team. Their remarkable performance resulted in an astonishing tally of seven gold, one silver and two bronze medals across multiple divisions.  All Gameness blue belts athletes made it to the podium at this event. Twins Mia and Ashlee Funegra had a dominant...

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    Black Belt Lucas Pinheiro Wins Jiu Jitsu World Title and Retires from IBJJF Competitions

    The Brazilian athlete won the last missing title on his resume, ending his career on top. Black Belt Lucas Pinheiro Wins Jiu Jitsu World Title and Retires from IBJJF Competitions The Brazilian athlete won the last missing title on his resume, ending his career on top After eight years as a black belt and hundreds of wins at the biggest...

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    Lucas Pinheiro wins No Gi Worlds and Completes The IBJJF Grand Slam

    Lucas Pinheiro completed the much-desired Grand Slam of the gentle art – Brazilian, European, Pan American, and World No Gi Champion – by winning on December 13 the only title that was missing in his career. With a perfect performance, the Atos Jiu-Jitsu black belt beat all his opponents at the IBJJF No-Gi World Championship.

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    10 Tips To Recruit 10 New Students For Your Gym

      The most common question we are asked when it comes to owning a martial arts school is, “how can we get more new students?” Well, that’s the most common question by far. School owners of all sizes are looking for new members and it doesn’t matter what time of year it is — spring, summer, fall, winter — they’re...

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    5 Things to Focus on When Teaching BJJ to Children

    Most parents who send their children to martial art classes usually have very little experience in the martial arts themselves. This means that the first thing that comes to mind for them is ‘is this safe for my child?’

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    3 Ways to Avoid Injury

    Below is just some friendly advice. Each suggestion varies from case to case, but if you speak to a great number of people in jiu-jitsu, they will tell you that their injuries occurred because of these reasons. If you avoid certain situations in jiu-jitsu because you don’t want to get injured, it doesn’t make you a ‘chicken’ or a coward....

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    Top 4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Jiu-Jitsu Class Regularly

    Technique does not develop itself. Neither is it downloaded into your brain and muscles when you practice it only five times. Repetition is the key to your brain and body remembering anything. There have been studies stating that to be an expert in any field, you must dedicate one thousand hours to it.

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    5 Reasons Why BJJ Is So Addictive

    No one can deny the gratifying results that BJJ produces for its practitioners. At first, people hesitate because they are either uncomfortable with the full contact factor or they don’t believe it will really help them get in shape.

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    5 Old School Rules of BJJ

    Like them or not, these rules are out there. Not every gym abides by all of them, but you may find traces of at least one of these rules in your academy.

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    Is Money an Issue in BJJ?

    In this world, money is the means to most things and Jiu-Jitsu is not an exception. You need money to train and jiu-jitsu is not particularly cheap, especially for younger practitioners and students.

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    How Often Should I Compete?

    The biggest question associated with tournaments is how often one should compete. Thought processes range from one extreme to the other, such as “it is not necessary to ever compete in your life” or “perhaps once is good, just to know what it feels like,” to “if you don’t compete you’ll never get your next belt.” So, what is the...

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    How Necessary is it to Compete in BJJ?

    On one hand, we have practitioners who argue that competitions are necessary for improvement and awarding your next belt, whatever belt that may be. On the other side, you have people who argue that although competitions can help your game, they are not essential to your jiu-jitsu journey. So what is the truth?

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