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Stop Being So Nice with Your BJJ (It’s Making You Worse)

Gary Berger — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:47:44 +0000

A lot of people struggle with aggression on the Jiu-Jitsu mats.

I’m not talking about wild, uncontrolled aggression, but rather technical, efficient, BJJ-specific aggressiveness.

Recently, I had a student dealing with this exact issue. She’s a recreational competitor who was frustrated because she didn’t want to come across as a jerk to her training partners — but she also didn’t want to be too passive.

In this video, I’ll share what I told her to help develop healthy, controlled aggression in a safe and technical way, and how you can apply the same ideas to your own training or competition.

Hope you enjoy the video.

Thanks for watching!

– Chewy
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10 Tips to Improve Faster as a White Belt in BJJ in 2025

Gary Berger — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:00:18 +0000

In today’s video, I’m going to give you guy 10 Ideas on how to improve in Jiu-Jitsu.

Today’s video is a little longer than normal, but if you really want to improve your BJJ game, then I think you might want to finish the whole thing.

These are 10 things I have personally done to improve my Jiu-Jitsu and ideas I’ve seen my own students implement to improve their game too.

Hopefully, you found the ideas in today’s video helpful.

Thanks for watching!

– Chewy

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Roger Gracie Speech: https://youtu.be/V3geelZWvVI?si=iFXZbHpYtrCfhwTE

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Chewjitsu Camp Highlight (Train with Chewy in Louisville, KY)

Gary Berger — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:04:40 +0000

Want to join me for the next Chewjitsu Camp in 2024? Visit the link below!
https://www.chewjitsutraining.com/camp

I keep the Chewjitsu Camps at my gym small and intimate. It’s a great chance to meet me and training with the crew at my gym.

Hope to see you there!
-Chewy
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BJJ Black Belt Promotion (Getting My Black Belt From Chewy)

Gary Berger — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:00:05 +0000

This was a very special moment in my life, the moment I received my BJJ black belt from my coach and good friend Chewy.

I never thought that I would be able to achieve this type of accomplishment, but I was truly honored and humbled to earn my black belt.

Jiu-Jitsu was something I started out of a curiosity and as something to do to challenge myself. My growth as a martial artist and human being as a result of Jiu-Jitsu has surpassed what I could have imagined.

I waited to post this video as I was trying to figure out and process this day and what exactly it meant to me (I was promoted on 2/25/2021).

I was trying to figure out if I was worthy of this accomplishment, what this meant to me, and I wanted to have some time to feel what it was like and have the chance to reflect on what it was like stepping on the mats and training as a black belt.

I feel like sharing this video gives a glimpse into the immense importance of this martial art to me. The comradery, the family, and the support that I have gained from training is difficult to put into words.

This was one of the greatest achievements of my life. I encourage anyone that watches this video just to keep training and be consistent. Focus on improving yourself everyday.

Thanks to my training partners and my coaches for being an integral part of this achievement. I love this martial art and am proud to be a Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt.

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This leglock Setup Destroys the Knee Slice Pass (Very Tricky)

Gary Berger — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:24:47 +0000

This leglock set up is amazing. I’ve been playing with it for a few months now and I’ve been getting all kinds of taps.

Not many people have seen this setup and it is insanity deceiving and tricky. Once you figure this thing out you will have everyone scared to enter your guard.

I plan on doing a more in depth look at this technique on my website Chadthebeasthardy.com

This video just gives you a glimpse of how powerful it can be.

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3 Ways to Maintain Back Control

Gary Berger — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:31:13 +0000

It has been awhile! It’s good to be back. I’ve been slammed this past month. Enough about me let’s talk about this technique!

Being on someone’s back was easily my weakest position up until 3 years ago. A fresh blue belt could escape my back control. I just never really worked to take the back. I always liked mount and side control and tried to finish there.

I realized how bad I sucked at the position one day when my coach had us start on the back the entire class because everyone is switching to ebi rules. Everyone was escaping my control easily. I realized wow I’m terrible at this I really need to work on it. Not gonna lie I was pretty hard on myself. I spent the entire car ride home listening to I wanna get better.

After realizing this I started making it a goal to take everyone’s back and keep it. I studied how people were escaping and drilled in my head ways that I could prevent them from escaping. I started using these three things and I was able to stop most people from escaping my control. Listing to eye of the tiger helped me tremendously.

After that I realized man I’m pretty good at holding the back but now I can’t finish anyone… and that’s a technique for another day. Enjoy the video and I will talk to you next time!

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Doing a Triangle “the Wrong Way” and Making it Work

Gary Berger — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:08:29 +0000

It is a very common misconception that you cannot finish the triangle from the opposite side.

Here is why this technique works. By their hand being on the opposite side of the body and you locking your hands over top of your knee it will create enough pressure to get the tap.also by making a lock on your knee their hand cannot escape the position.

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This Jiu-Jitsu Submission Will Leave Them With No Chance Of Escaping

Gary Berger — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:39:59 +0000

This is by far my favorite submission set up!

Once you get to the ending position you should be golden. It should be nearly impossible to get out if you can lock up that triangle from the top.

After it’s locked in take your time and single out the arm. Here is the best part! If they flip you over it makes the choke worse

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Chewy Getting Pinned By 2019 NAIA HWT Wrestling Champ

Gary Berger — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:16:07 +0000

I haven’t been in the Down position in Wrestling in about 16 years. And I’m not sure why but I figured it would be fun to have Brandon pin me and see how long I could last. Well. . . as you’ll see in the video it didn’t last long.

You may have seen Brandon rolling in some of my other videos. He’s a stud wrestler and was the NAIA 285lbs champ in 2019. Not to mention he’s about 230lbs and moves like hes 185lbs. You can put in his name on youtube and see a bunch of his matches. He moves like a cat.

Either way The Chewster didn’t even last a minute. Next time we’ll have a redo and I’ll see if I can squeak out a full 60 seconds.

That said, enjoy the video of me getting pinned.
-Chewy

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Sneaky Kimura Defense from Half Guard (The Reverse Kimura)

Gary Berger — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:01:27 +0000

In this video I worked with one of my student’s about a issue he was having from top of Half Guard.

During rolling he says he is getting caught with the Kimura and then he’s getting his Back taken.

In this video I break down some basic ways to defend the Kimura lock in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

Early prevention is always the best option. But if they get the figure 4 lock needed to secure the Kimura. We have to have ways to counter it.

During this short lesson with my student we look at my highest percentage technique for countering the Kimura from top position.

There are other ways to defend the grip. But for me and my BJJ game. This one works incredibly well and has stopped countless kimura attempts over the years.

Fun fact, the Kimura submission is kind of my favorite technique in BJJ. So even when I’m messing around. I try not to let my students hit the technique on me.

It would be like hitting Macho Man with the flying elbow.

If you’re having a similar issue getting caught with the Kimura during rolling or competitions. Then I hope this technique is useful!

-Chewy
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