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Be YOU! 🎯Seja VOCÊ!

Gary Berger — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:42:52 +0000

Authenticity isn’t about perfection — it’s about courage.
The courage to show up as yourself, with both your scars and your victories.

That’s the heart of the BJJ Mental Coach Masters Community: a space to grow, reflect, and live authentically on and off the mats.

Watch the video, then join us — because growth is something we build together.

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After 24 Years of Grappling This Unlocked my BJJ Skills & Improved my Life

Gary Berger — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:55:27 +0000

I’m getting ready for 2024 No-Gi Worlds in a few weeks, bulking up for a run at Super Heavyweight.

But anyway, I was thinking about the fact that I’ve been competing since the year 2000 in Wrestling/BJJ.

It’s been a wild 24 years. I’m getting old!

On top of that, I’ve had a lot of time to make mistakes, and adjustments, and develop some wisdom in the long years I’ve been competing in Jiu-Jitsu.

In this video, I’ll share a philosophy that changed my life in and outside of BJJ competitions. It’s an idea of high standards but low expectations. Meaning high standards for yourself but low or no expectations for how the outcome should go. I’ll explain more in the video.

Thanks for watching!
-Chewy
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🥇IBJJF Fort Lauderdale International Open Final

Gary Berger — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:31:23 +0000

“The greatest critic lives inside your mind, and often, that’s the one you must silence to succeed.”

One of the beauties of Jiu-Jitsu is that no matter how long you’ve been training, every tournament is an opportunity to learn.When reevaluating your performance, it’s crucial to ask yourself two critical questions across four areas: technical, physical, strategic, and mental.

1. What did you do right during training and competition?

2. What would you have done differently in the same situation? Again, consider both training and competition.

I’m content with some of the things I did and frustrated with others, but that’s okay. This balance pushes us to improve.

What about you? Do you reevaluate your performances in all four areas?

Thank John Fernandez for recording the match.

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@ibjjf 🥇Fort Lauderdale International Open 🫡

Gary Berger — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:45:40 +0000

Goodbye M4, Hello M5! Today I competed in my last tournament as a Master 4 and took first place at the @ibjjf Fort Lauderdale International Open. Won the first match by triangle and the finals by points 11×0 (and yes, I forgot to record the match). Thank you, Marcelo Pereira, for the coaching!

Now, as I always recommend, it’s time to reevaluate the performance, analyze the good and not so good, and work on improvement.

Big thanks to my team:

Jiu-Jitsu – @gdjiujitsuacademy 10am crew, Coach @jrodjiujitsu @teamnovauniao @rodrigo_cf_feijao

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Strength & Conditioning – @itallovilardo

Nutritionist – @institutoanabolize

Stem Cell Treatment – @newhoperegeneration

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A Gold Medal Mindset from a ADCC Trials Champion

Gary Berger — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:51:21 +0000

In today’s video I answer a question from a viewer named Senju, who recently competed at a BJJ tournament against an opponent who he had previously beaten decisively.

This time however, at this Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition, he barely beat this guy, winning on a judge’s decision.

At the end of the day Senju feels like he didn’t win the match.

He says he feels gross about the victory and ask how I would deal with these feelings that bottle up when you don’t think you deserved to win a match, that you in fact do win on the score board (in his case by advantage)

Often times in BJJ you’re going to run into the same opponents on your way up the competitive circuit, because realistically there aren’t that many people who compete.

Naturally there’s going to be progress in both competitors grappling games as time goes on and close matches will undoubtedly vary in results (unless you’re way better than your opponent).

In this video I’ll talk more about this back-and-forth that often happens in BJJ, a recent ADCC Trials winner(a buddy of mine Jacob Couch) who struggled with this against a game opponent & then won when it “mattered”, and more revolving around this unique subject in Jiu-Jitsu.

Hopefully you find these ideas helpful in some way, especially if you’ve been in a similar situation to Senju.
– Chewy
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This is Not a good position in BJJ (Breaking Guard Effectively)

Gary Berger — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:00:06 +0000

One of the more frustrating positions for me at times has been breaking the Full Guard. You could make it case to call it Escaping the Full Guard.

Either way, it’s a position that I find more frustrating than most and always have. The person on the bottom of Guard is in the dominant position and has such a strong ability to control movement. And I like to move a lot so this bothers me.

Recently I got a question from John who was asking about tips on breaking and passing the Full Guard during his BJJ training and he made reference to a video I posted.

The previous video was one of my Chewjitsu White Belt tips. Which is here: https://youtu.be/y_XH2Qknulo

In that previous video I show a couple tips and mistakes when it comes to breaking the Full Guard open.

In John’s question he asked for technical advice for his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu related problem. What I share in this video is more of a mindset change.

The reason for this is that my frustration and issues breaking the guard open were reduced dramatically once I changed the way I went about breaking the Guard and the way I thought about the position.

In the past while doing Brazilian Jiujitsu. I sort of saw myself in a good spot when I was on top in the Guard. But a quick look at the positioning of the hips will reveal that in BJJ, it’s actually not a good position.

If you were to flip the position over. You’d be in the bottom of Mount.

So if you’re someone that is experiencing issues and frustration working on the top of someones Full Guard. Hopefully the tips in this video will help!

Thanks!
-Chewy

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