Data and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Data and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu   Have You Taken the Survey Yet? A survey of attitudes about the use of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu by Law Enforcement Officer (LEOs) is finally up and ready! Check out this page here to find links to the survey and analytics using MS Power BI. Data submitted to the survey is updated hourly into the Power BI Survey.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Brazilian Jiu Jitsu For All Police Officers As a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu I know for a fact that, at 50 years of age, I can easily control just about anyone who has not trained. I routinely handle 20-something 200+ pound muscular men with ease when they come in off the street to try it out. It doesn't take much training either to do this to untrained folks. I have been able to do this to just about everyone since I was a blue belt (which takes roughly 1 1/2 - 2 years of regular training to get). The article linked below highlights not only how effective BJJ would make Police at dealing with resisting opponents, but it also points out aptly that a regular practitioner of BJJ understands how not to hurt someone they are grappling with in spite of being potentially lethal with dozens of choke holds and joint locks. In short, BJJ practitioners know how much pressure is too much pressure, and when to ease up not to hurt someone, but not so much that they l...