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Braulio Estima: Invisible Jiu Jitsu.

With a list of accomplishments as long as his arms, Braulio Estima has found himself on a winning streak these last few years. His performance at ADCC 2009 in Barcelona was nothing short of amazing. Winning both his own weight category (88kg) as well as the absolute division and without a single point being scored against him in all his fights! Braulio has also won the BJJ world championships 4 times as well as countless other major tournament victories.

Edojo caught up with Braulio to talk about his training, motivation, that 'infamous' inverted triangle and what he has come to call ... 'Invisible Jiu Jitsu'

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Tim You’ve had a really successful time in the past year, for people who maybe don't know who you are or what you do, can you tell me the biggest or most successful tournaments you’ve been involved with recently?

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Braulio Yeah, the biggest ones would be … all the ones that bring international fighters, for me these are big. Now there are no easy fights with the competitions that bring the international fighters, for example the Pan Ams, the Europeans, the World Pro, and the World Championship – the Mundials, and... the ADCC. This was for me, the greatest (event) I have ever done. ADCC is an invitational competition with only fighters who deserve to be there, you have to qualify or be invited to be there. When I fought there, nobody managed to score a point against me, no fights went to extra time, I tapped (submitted) both of the finalists, you know, beating 4 of the top players (fighters) in the ADCC. So it was a great achievement in terms of scale. This was my first Gold in ADCC, now I have the World Championships – 3 times Gold, 5 times for the Pan Ams, 3 in the Europe‐ ans. Tim So, you been very busy! Braulio Yes!

Tim A lot of people are getting to know your name now outside of the BJJ community, especially through ADCC, can you tell me what age you started to train Jiu Jitsu?

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Braulio I started Jiu Jitsu when I was 16 years old. I started through friends you know. I heard about the UFC and Royce Gracie ﬁghting and this Brazilian representing you know, the way you can beat the stronger opponent, I was wandering if I could do the same because I wasnt very strong, I was always small. Then I had a friend who I used to do Judo with when I was 11 years old who had started this (Jiu Jitsu) and I said it sounded weird for me! This Jiu Jitsu sounded like something a ninja would do! So I said I would go and see what it is and when I saw it was a grappling thing, I was very interested. Copyright EDOJO.TV 2010

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Tim So you had 4‐5 years of Judo before Jiu Jitsu

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Braulio No I actually started Judo when I was 10 ‐ 11 but then I stopped because my instructor died. I stopped doing martial arts and started doing football as a kid, as you do! Then I saw there was a lot of politics involved as you get more into professional football, I noticed that a lot of people who were better than me, were not going pro, and a lot of people who were worse than me were, according to who they knew. My dad had not been involved with football so I knew there was little chance for me to get through. If the guys who were better than me could not get through because of this I knew I had little chance. So I decided to do something that only depended on me, so If I win, I will get somewhere for it, and if I lose, it is only because of me. Tim So, it's a good thing you chose Jiu Jitsu!

Braulio Yeah, cos it was an upcoming martial art. When I started BJJ, my instructor was a blue belt and the closest black belt around was 3 hours away by plane. Tim A lot of people hold off training because they havnet got a black belt to go and train with. Braulio Yes, of course if you do have, it does make a difference, but it’s not like the end of the world you know, Im not like a super hero (being a black belt), I have injuries as normal, I have my time off, you know I have my ups and downs, but I think the main thing is the determination. This means if you really want to get somewhere, if you really do fight for it, you will get there sooner or later. T I M L O R D

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Tim So, when you started your training you were with a Blue Belt, you would get what you could get. Now you're the world champion, how much of your time is spent training? Braulio Well, I'm lucky that I have my hobby and my favourite sport as my job. Im lucky that I could manage to build a base that allows me to keep doing what I love for a living. Like that I can keep training as often as I can. Im a very competitive person, Im very much a sport guy, I always love to do sport. I like to train, I have fun train‐ ing. Thank God that BJJ is a thing that you don't need to go full on to enjoy the training, you don't need to hit anybody, you don't need to beat up anybody. It's like grappling is natural in our instincts! If you put two kids playing around, they always want to grapple together! You know, this is our game. I try to do as much as possible, even when I’m oﬀ train‐ ing (for competition) I still roll around with my students, developing new tech‐ niques, having fun with my friends, playing around... And of course when it comes to the competition, I take like 12 weeks in a 'full blast'

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In the finals of the under 88 kgs, Braulio Estima faced off with Andre Galvao What turned out to be one of the most exciting fights of the event ended with Braulio securing an inverted triangle to defeat Galvao. Braulio went onto win Gold also in the Absolute devision. Copyright EDOJO.TV 2010

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Tim You pointed out something that I wanted to ask you about when you said 'develop‐ ing' techniques... when you get to the level you're at, where you've achieved through tournaments the level of being the best in the world, where do you go to train? Anyone can come to your academy and they would learn so much from training in your classes, but where does the guy who's at the top go to train, where do you get your tech‐ nique from? Braulio Everything is about discovering yourself. It's funny 'cos people have told me many years ago, like the masters say 'you've gotta discover yourself' and you start thinking 'okay, now I'm discovering myself' until you actually realise what it is discovering yourself. When you discover yourself, when you know what are your limits, when you know where you can be in a situation or a fight, you know where you cannot be, this gives you the knowledge and the confidence to try something (techniques) that is not the usual thing that you always do, it's safe because you have the knowledge of the 'keypoints' of things you can and cannot do. For example, when you know yourself, you know your body, you know your own limits, you can draw a line around it (your limits) and you can realise that there’s still something there that I haven’t tried yet. What if I link this, with the other thing that's a similar area – it's unlimited! There is no limit. In BJJ there is not limit, if you get a combination or A‐B‐C, you can join A with B, A with C, then C with B, C with A, B and C, B and A, and this is only for three options Imagine when you have hundreds... it becomes infinite for a situation.

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INVERTED TRIANGLE FROM BOTTOM POSITION

Braulio pushes his opponent away, then snakes his hips out creating space

Braulio gains guard position

Braulio ‘stitches’ his leg through the inside and towards his opponents opposite shoulder

Braulio then pushes his leg up at the same time controlling his opponent by the triceps and rotating his own body

In the same movement, Braulio hooks his leg over his opponents head

Braulio then kicks his other leg out and lifts it to hook over the other leg

Braulio locks his legs together to form an inverted triangle

All thats left to do is squeeze his legs and his opponent is forced to tap

As his opponent pushes into him Braulio controls his opponents triceps allowing him to control the distance between himself and his opponent

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Braulio Estima ‐ Invisible Jiu Jitsu Full interview and techniques available on www.edojo.tv

Full article include 17 pages of exclusive interviews, training information, technique ﬁles and 30 minutes of instruction video from the BJJ series with Braulio Estima ‘Invisible Jiu Jitsu’

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Emin Boztepe: Scientific Wing Tzun. Part One: Wing Tsun and Strength Training

An argument in favour of strength and conditioning in Wing Tzun: adapted from a transcript of seminars given by Dai-sifu Emin Boztepe in Antalya, Turkey in July 2010

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What is Wing Tzun based on? Science and mathematics. Many Wing Tzun people boast about how scientific their art is, but in reality they are only teaching the movements of the system without fully understanding the science behind them. Let’s look at basic concepts in physics like energy and power. Many Wing Tzun people say that the art was created by two women specifically so that weaker people can defeat stronger ones. They argue that therefore you shouldn’t use power, shouldn’t do stretching, bodybuilding or any sort of explo‐ sive training either. Of course, these people never fight; yet they still try to tell you how to do things that they don’t even prac‐ tise themselves. Personally, I prefer to see muscles working in a really hard karate punch than to see the jaw muscles of these people who talk a lot but haven’t really under‐ talk a lot but haven’t really under stood anything.

You need a minimum level of power to ﬁght; this is basic physics. For ex‐ ample, to hold a bong sau or a tan sau in place you require a certain amount of muscle just to maintain the static position. Moreover, people always forget when they practise Wing Tzun that in reality there is anger behind the movements and anger in the attack.

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Technique training without this realisation can become detached from reality even though it may look nice and skilful.

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Anger changes things. It causes explosiveness, brutality and extra force. So if your movements cannot deal with the level of impact and aggression that reality presents, then your defence will collapse. Yet people continue to falsely state that you don’t need muscle to do Wing Tzun. Copyright EDOJO.TV 2010

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The Wing Tzun 'Chain Punch'

One of the trademark techniques from Wing Tzun is the 'Chain Punch'. This 'rapid fire' technique is designed to overwhelm and overpower an opponent by driving continues punches straight down the centre line. In reality, the attacker presses forwards with body weight behind each punch. Pictured below is a demonstration shot at 50 frames per second. We were not able to place body weight behind the punches in order to get the sequence on camera. The following sequence is just 1 second long. A total of 10 punches land within 1 second. This was taken from a longer sequence where this 'rate of fire' was sustained for much longer making a very effective attack.

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Emin Boztepe: Scientific Wing Tzun. Part One: Wing Tsun and Strength Training

Full Article and ongoing series available on www.edojo.tv

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Neil Adams Interview - By Fergus Dullaghan

In this full and frank interview, former World Judo Champion and Belgian national judo coach Neil Adams exclusively gives us his thoughts on the 2010 Judo World Championships and the effect of the rule changes on judoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smaller nations

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Fergus Dullaghan: Hi Neil, it’s good to catch up with you again. Before we start talking about technique it would be remiss of me not to ask you about the World Championships in Japan given that you have literally only just come back. What was your impression of the tournament in general?

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Neil Adams Ju do Neil Adams: Well when we went over to the World Championships we all knew it Ru was going to be a Japanese landslide. Everyone was just waiting for it to happen les really. There were a number of things that lent themselves to what was really an

unfair event in some ways. Firstly, there were two competitors allowed for each country per weight category. Unfortunately, only the major countries that have the money and depth could ﬁeld two athletes while some couldn’t even ﬁeld one. The second thing was that it was in Japan, which is naturally a massive home advantage. And thirdly, they changed the rules to suit the Japanese. So there are no leg grabs anymore and it all happened so quickly that everything was geared towards total Japanese domination. As a representative of a smaller country it wasn’t totally fair. Another thing was that the Japanese as host nation got to put four players in every category for the open weights, which just made it nonsense. Of course the Japanese had strength and depth in the heavy weights and three of them were on the rostrum of the men’s open weight. It was just ridiculous!

Fergus Dullaghan: A lot of people have been saying recently that judo is opening up and there are a lot of new countries coming through and making some serious chal‐ lenges for places...

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Neil Adams: No, I just don’t agree. I think that this is leading to a total Japanese and Asian domination again. You can see for example that the next nearest country was France with just two Golds, while Japan had eight. So I don’t agree. I think if they don’t change the format back again to one person per country in every weight group it’s going to make it very difficult for smaller countries to get important medals and [Olympic] qualification as well. There is also the risk of a split as smaller countries are not going to be able to compete. Not only that but they can’t afford to do all the necessary IJF tournaments. It costs too much money. So they are not going to be able to qualify for the Olympic Games. So what might happen now if we are not very careful is an elite split with two different events. It could end up like karate with different organisations so that the smaller nations can carry on participating, so I don’t necessarily think that this is the right way to go.

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Fergus Dullaghan: What about newaza (ground ﬁghting)? Was there any change at the Worlds regarding its use? Were players given any more or less time...?

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Neil Adams: They seem to be starting to allow a little more time for newaza now, which can only be a good thing. I said right the way through my commentary for the World Championships that it was nice to see newaza developing again; people were going for things and the referees were allowing it to happen. One of the prob‐ lems is when the technique is too advanced for the referee and they don’t know what is happening so they stop it early.

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Fergus Dullaghan: Yes that’s absolutely right. Well that is good news because I think that a lot of my generation of judoka don’t really have great newaza; it’s been ignored because it’s not as useful in getting results as it once was... Neil Adams: I think that’s right. I was trained fifty/fifty newaza and tachiwaza (standing techniques) and I think the balance has shifted. The rules changed that, so I’d like to see the balance re‐addressed and a move back towards a more fifty/fifty situation.

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Adams underhooks opponents arm

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As his opponent wraps Adams leg, Adams controls his opponents arm

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Adams lifts with his trapped leg and rolls his opponent onto his side

Adams then bases himself up controlling his opponent

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Then Adams steps over his opponents head

And sits back to set up the juji-gatame (arm-bar)

The finishing juji-gatame and victory by submission!

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These are sample sections from eDojo articles Other articles included in Week 1 of eDojo include...

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MARCELO BRIGADEIRO: Luta Livre SIDE CHOKE MASTER CLASS. Marcelo Brigadeiro is a Luta Livre Black Belt. He is the only ﬁghter to win the Brazilian National Championship of Submission 3 times, and the Rio de Janeiro State Championship of Submission 7 times! Brigadeiro is the Luta Livre coach of Team Kaobon (UK) and RFT Team (Brazil).

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BJJ fundamentals: “You’ve got to do it to get it.”

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Kendo: A cut above the rest? By Fergus Dullaghan,

In association with Nine Circles the British Kendo Association

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Kosei Inoue: Meeting a Judo Legend. Article, interview & images by Fergus Dullaghan

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Kron Gracie: Rough Guide.

A couple of years ago, CageFilm documented a 2 week road trip to the USA Visiting a number of the top BJJ and MMA gyms on the West coast. 2 proffesional MMA fighters from the UK - Alex Reid and Gaz Rorriston went with producer - Tim Lord to train at each gym and interview the instructors. Amongst the gyms visited was the Rickson Gracie Academy in Los Angeles The team caught up with resident black belt instructor and son of Rickson Gracie - Kron Gracie.

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Kosei Inoue: Judo.

Part One: Marote-seoinage Two armed shoulder throw With thanks to Mike Callan, the Welsh Institute of Sport & Mizuno (www.judogis.co.uk)

In this sequence former World and Olympic judo champion Kosei Inoue demonstrates a traditional Marote‐seoinage (two armed shoulder throw). His uki is Welsh international Sam Hill.

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The purpose of this training method is to practise throwing an opponent who is advancing to‐ wards you. Almost any throw can be executed in this way, and for that reason it is one of the most traditional ways of practising nagewaza, (throwing techniques).

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Sports Psychology with Rhodri Morgan & Fergus Dullaghan: Goal Setting

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IAN ‘THE MACHINE’ FREEMAN MMA - GROUND & POUND MASTERCLASS

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