"My inspiration in jiu-jitsu was the Miyao brothers. I discovered them when I was very young and watched their fights on YouTube. I saw a highlight of them doing the berimbolo and that's when I ...

Afghan girl members of a Jiu-Jitsu club jump during a practice session on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan.AP/Tamana Sarwary Jiu Jitsu club members look at a wall with posters at their club ahead of a ...

As one of the biggest success stories in submission grappling, Kade Ruotolo is well aware that he is going to become an inspiration to young kids. In 2022, Kade and his brother Tye had breakout years ...

Four-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu World Champion Rodolfo Vieira still is still looking to improve his grappling while his mixed martial arts career develops. Paired up against Anthony Hernandez for a ...

Adapted from Japanese Jiu-jitsu and judo in early 20th-century Brazil, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (BJJ) is a grappling martial art and self-defense system that uses throws, holds and locks to incapacitate an ...

Jiu-Jitsu is a traditionally male-dominated art form, but one woman in Melbourne is trying to shift the tune. When Jenny Voronoff met her future husband, Ivan, in 2016, she didn’t know he was a ...

Mackenzie Dern is, without a doubt, the fastest rising women’s MMA star outside of the UFC. Dern, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under the highly touted Wellington ‘Megaton’ Dias, is widely ...

The film Suffragette, which is due for release, portrays the struggle by British women to win the vote. They were exposed to violence and intimidation as their campaign became more militant. So they ...

Ian Matuszak spent every day of his life fighting. That life that began weeks earlier than expected in 1995 when he, his brother Alec and sister Sydney were born. He fought in hospitals, in ...

A young boy who lost four limbs to meningitis has shocked his family by taking up marital arts. Inspirational Marshall Janson had his legs and hands amputated as a baby and was once described as the ...