Welcome to the official Hidden Jiu-Jitsu Blog.
My purpose with this blog and this website is to be of service to you, my friends who make up this amazing Jiu-Jitsu community. So this is where I will focus on sharing my most valuable wisdom, strategies, principles and knowledge I have gained over the past 26 years studying and teaching Jiu-Jitsu, as it was handed down to me by the one and only Rickson Gracie.
How to Develop your Jiu-Jitsu Game to a High Level In Record Time
The importance of positional training, and why it should be at least 50% or more of your training. I get a lot of questions about how to train Jiu Jitsu properly. "What's the most...
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Weight Distribution from Side Control By Henry Akins & Stephen Whittier
In this video I'm demonstrating how to use weight distribution from the cross side position. Because it's very difficult to see how much weight I'm applying on my partner, I have him humming...
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Henry Akins Hidden Jiu Jitsu Seminar with Robb Wolf
This will be a special 2 day Hidden Jiu-Jitsu Seminar Event with special guest NY Times Best Selling author of "The Paleo Solution" Robb Wolf There will be 4 two hour Jiu-Jitsu sessions...
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Standing RNC Escape with the Hook In - Holly Holm Should Have Done This
I shared an escape for a standing rear naked choke about a month ago, it's an escape I feel works better then what is sometimes traditionally taught which is the hip throw. The reason I was looking...
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Rickson Gracie Movement Based Training
Movement based training seems to be all the rage now and its really nice to have such amazing athletes and martial artists like Conor McGregor and his coach Ido Portal bringing attention to it, but...
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The #1 Question I Get Asked Everywhere I Go
"How do I ESCAPE Side Control?" And here is my answer - Wanna escape side control? Just tap. Here's why.... Not what people expect but just listen. Look we all find ourselves on the...
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Blowing Minds Down Under
I hope everyone is enjoying the new videos I released for mount attacks! As you know I'm really big on refining the basics and I hope the new details turn you into a mount finishing machine! I'm...
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Hidden Jiu Jitsu Sub and Surf Wrap Up
Back from a week of training Hidden Jiu Jitsu in Costa Rica with Sub and Surf BJJ Camp! I filmed this wrap up video just to share with you guys some of the stuff I showed at my BJJ camp in Costa...
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Update: Mount Attacks Technique Video
This is a very simple and fast arm lock for when your opponent tries to escape the mount by throwing his legs around your torso. You just slide your body up and around whichever arm you want to...
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Update: Mount Maintenance Techniques
Just like I promised, we just added MORE videos to the mount maintenance course so if you haven’t seen them yet, check them out. In this video I give some details on how to better get your...
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