Jiu Jitsu
The Ultimate Jiu Jitsu Gift Guide 2025
If you’ve ever tried shopping for a Jiu Jitsu athlete, you know it’s no easy task. Between training schedules, gear preferences, and “that one rashguard they’ll only wear on comp...
MEET A FOX: Teen Phenom Jett Thompson Chats PGF Victory and Future Legacy
Jett Thompson isn’t even twenty years old yet, but this past year, he won over PGF audiences – not to mention season 8’s lightweight title – with a consistently dominant,...
MEET A FOX: No-Gi Pans Champ Ana Mayordomo Discusses the Road to Her Own Personal Wimbledon
When Spanish-born Ana Mayordomo – clad in a strikingly bright, tennis white Gaidama set – secured her victory at the 2025 ADCC European Trials, she struck gold not just for...
Choosing Great Over Good: Exploring The Gaidama Difference
Alongside the rise of jiu-jitsu on the world stage comes the rise of jiu-jitsu gear. Happily, today, we have more jiu-jitsu gear – and, importantly, jiu-jitsu gear of reasonably quality...
Essential Moves for Women Starting BJJ
So, you’ve started your jiu-jitsu journey. Maybe you walked into a jiu-jitsu gym near you, signed up for female jiu-jitsu classes, or a friend encouraged you to try it. Now,...
BJJ Competition Tips: Mindsets, Rulesets, Nutrition, and More
Jiu-jitsu competition preparation may seem daunting to the uninitiated, but with the right strategies and mindset in place, you’ll be rolling like a pro on tournament day in no time....
Benefits of Jiu-Jitsu for Women: Physical, Mental, and Beyond
Benefits of Brazilian jiu-jitsu positively impact everyday life for a wide range of demographics – but female practitioners in particular have sung the praises of the gentle art. There are...
A Weekend With Gaidama: The Making of the Fourth Annual Epic Open Mat
I’m hanging out with some of the most elite submission grapplers on the planet, and we’re all deeply engrossed in a conversation about, of all things, the art of capturing...
Dress for Success: Gaidama’s Guide to Your 2024 No-Gi Season
We’re no strangers to dressing athletes of all levels for the competition mats. With both the rapidly growing ADCC Open circuit and the IBJJF’s 2024 no-gi season in full swing,...
How Foxes Took Over ADCC 2024: A Gaidama Story
Here’s a fun piece of trivia for ADCC 2024 enthusiasts: what do the promotion’s brand new women’s open class division, two of the North American Trials winners (and now newly-minted...
MEET A FOX: ADCC Contender Lyzz Mitrovic Shares Mindset, Motivation, and Competition Methods
Here’s a fun fact about ADCC West Coast Trials winner Lyzz Mitrovic: at her very first tournament, a small local in-house, she was the only woman who signed up –...
MEET A FOX: ADCC Contender Mo Black Explains Why Pressure is a Privilege
Morgan “Mo” Black is a force to reckon with. Though she’ll be making her ADCC Worlds debut this year, the black belt competitor is no stranger to the spotlight. She’s...