{"id":381,"date":"2012-01-15T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T22:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2012-01-17T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:40:36","slug":"cobrinha-vs-shane-rice-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/cobrinha-vs-shane-rice-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobrinha vs. Shane Rice \/\/ Canada Sub X"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Wikipedia<\/a>: “Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0martial art,\u00a0combat sport, and a\u00a0self defense\u00a0system that focuses on\u00a0grappling\u00a0and especially\u00a0ground fighting. The art was derived from the\u00a0Japanese martialart\u00a0of\u00a0Kodokan\u00a0judo\u00a0(which itself is derived from Japanese\u00a0Jujutsu; the name Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an homage to this origin) in the early 20th century.\u00a0<\/span>It teaches that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant by using leverage and proper technique\u2014most notably by applying\u00a0joint-locks\u00a0and\u00a0choke holds\u00a0to defeat the other person. BJJ training can be used for sport grappling tournaments\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0mixed martial arts\u00a0(MMA) competition or self defense.”<\/p>\n

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Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles (pictured above) is one of the premiere grapplers in the world. Here he competes against Shane Rice (below), a tough grappler in his own right. Check out this really cool video<\/a> of Cobrinha in action at the 2008 World Championships.<\/p>\n

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From Wikipedia: “Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu\u00a0is a\u00a0martial art,\u00a0combat sport, and a\u00a0self defense\u00a0system that focuses on\u00a0grappling\u00a0and especially\u00a0ground fighting. The art was derived from the\u00a0Japanese martialart\u00a0of\u00a0Kodokan\u00a0judo\u00a0(which itself is derived from Japanese\u00a0Jujutsu; the name Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is an homage to this origin) in the early 20th century.\u00a0It teaches that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67,68,69,30],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-brazilian-jiu-jitsu","tag-cobrinha","tag-grappling","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}