WHY YOUR FAVORITE COLOR SHOULD BE PURPLE!
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NUTRITION, CONDITION, TECHNIQUE, SUBMIT
NONE SHALL PASS Yuri Simoes
and his new Body X-Guard
Whole Foods Vs Supplements?
Black Belt To The Stars
Master Reverse Omoplata With The King – Nino Schembri
Avoid A Broken Heart
The Grappler’s Guide to Heart Health April 2015 Issue 31
Rigan Machado
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ON THE COVER: Yuri Simoes gets ready to show us what he’s been working on the last 12 months. Photo: Jason Boulanger
CONTENTS April 2015 // Issue 31
47 The Life
Life 8 Editorial Time to go monthly!
10 News New stuff, gossip, old stuff and some strange stuff.
24 Promotions Belts and Stripes
Part Two of Does Size Matter?
48 Spotlight Rigan Machado looks to change the world.
92 Gear Lab
56 Cover Feature Yuri Simoes’ Body X-Guard
74 Mastering the Reverse Omoplata With Nino Schembri
• Sumbmission FC Bamboo Frenzy Gi
MEET THE STAFF
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Skills
Mackenzie ARRINGTON
Matthew CORLEY
is an award winning chef out of Boothbay, Maine. He is the author of GrapplerGourmet. com, a comprehensive guide to cooking for the BJJ lifestyle. On the mats he is a blue belt out of PSABJJ in Brooklyn, NY, and a personal chef off the mats. Follow MacKenzie at facebook. com/grapplergourmet.
is a blue belt, and Registered Pharmasist and Clinical Phramacy Manager who trains under Ezra Lenon. The best way to keep up with his articles and reviews is at facebook.com/ MappingMyBjjJourney
Corey BEASLEY has been a strength coach for 16 years and works with a variety of combat athletes in Southern California. He owns Innovative Results gym in Costa Mesa, CA and founded a site called FightCampConditioning.com, that provides strength and conditioning advice for MMA fighters, jiu-jitsu players and other combat athletes.
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Looks like somebody’s been partying.
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Mind
Body
96 Mind Games
40 Warm Up
Drilling Ugly
Pull-Up Power
114 Success
106 Gains
Natasha Steffen
Battle Rope Training for Grapplers
Fuel
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102 Medic Heart Health
28 Grub
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The Power of Purple
34 Supplements Whole Foods Vs Supplements
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Travis GUESNON
Deb BLYTH
began his love for grappling and fitness more than ten years ago here in Southern California and has turned that passion into a career helping Mike steward this fine publication. He has been training jiu-jitsu since 2009 under John Munoz at C-quence JJ/MMA in Norco, CA.
known around the world as one of the premier jiu-jitsu journalists. She’s an accomplished author who has traveled the world to get the story and is the most connected reporter in all of jiu-jitsu.
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