Brazilian Jujitsu Videos, Gi Videos, Vale Tudo Videos
We've compiled a great selection of BJJ, MMA, and Vale Tudo fights from some of the greatest Brazilian Jujitsu players in the world, including Marcelo Garcia, Saulo Ribeiro, Royler Gracie, and more. You can check these out, along with our hand-picked selection of matches from the 90's and from this decade.
Many of these videos aren't what might be considered the traditional fare for MMA fans. These videos focus on technical BJJ players, rather than MMA fighters, though many of the BJJ players also have MMA videos available.
Marcelo Garcia Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
Marcelo Garcia highlights, great pound-for-pound playerRoyler Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
Royler Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi VideosRoyce Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
Royce Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi VideosFernando "Margarida" Pontes Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
Fernando "Margarida" Pontes Brazilian Jujitsu Gi VideosVale Tudo Videos - Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
Vale Tudo videos, Street videos from a variety of fighters.Saulo Ribeiro Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
No-gi and gi videos from Saulo RibeiroRoger Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos
Roger Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi VideosBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ), also referred to as Brazilian Jujitsu and other variants, is a combat sport and martial art descended from judo that focuses on ground fighting, grappling, and throws with the objective of achieving a dominant position and using chokes, strangles, and joint locks to force an opponent to submit or render him unconscious.
A core principle of BJJ is that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant. Many of the techniques rely on pitting a strength against a weakness. Another principle is using realistic sparring so that one not only learn the techniques, but gains experience applying them in a live, but controlled, environment. This is often referred to as rolling.
BJJ is both a self-defense art and a sport, and has become a vital component of vale tudo and mixed martial arts fights.
History
BJJ began with Mitsuyo Maeda, a Japanese expert judoka and member of the Kodokan. Maeda was one of five of the Kodokan's top groundwork experts that Judo's founder Kano Jigoro sent overseas to spread his art to the world. Maeda left Japan in 1904 and visited a number of countries giving "jiu-do" demonstrations and accepting challenges from wrestlers, boxers, savate fighters and various other martial artists before eventually arriving in Brazil on November 14, 1914.
Since its inception, judo was separated from jujutsu in its goals, philosophy, and training regime. Although there was great rivalry among jujutsu teachers, this was more than just Kano's ambition to clearly individualize his art. To Kano, judo wasn't solely a martial art: it was also a sport, a method for promoting physical fitness and building character in young people, and, ultimately, a way (Do) of life. To a very large extent, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has also encompassed these philosophies.
It is often claimed that BJJ is a development of traditional Japanese jujutsu, and that Maeda was a jujutsuka. However, Maeda never trained in jujutsu. He first trained in sumo as a teenager, and after the interest generated by stories about the success of judo at contests between judo and jujutsu that were occurring at the time, he changed from sumo to judo, becoming a student of Kano's Kodokan judo. He was promoted to 7th dan in Kodokan judo the day before he died in 1941.