Roberto “Roleta” Magalhães is a light heavy weight who rolls like a feather weight. He has flexiablilty, cunning and skill. In other words he is a big guy who doesn’t play the big man game. He shocked the world in the first BJJ World Champion and beat Wallid Ismail in 1996. He also made Saulo [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 4, 2008
Small Man’s BJJ for a Big Guy
I once read a quote from Helio Gracie in which he said that it was much easier to teach a stupid person jiu jitsu than an intelligent person. He said that you always had to convince the smart person that the move was valid while the stupid person would accept it exactly as it was [...]
June 2, 2008
“You Beat Me Because of your Weight”
If you are a big man you have heard your training partners say “you beat me because of your weight”. You would like to hear that you out grappled your opponent or that your strategy was unique and precise and this lead to the submission. What you hear is that your size was the [...]
June 2, 2008
I’m a Big Man….
I truly am a big man six feet 259. Everyday in my life someone comments on my size, “hey big guy, hey big man”, and that is why I named this site Big Man Bjj weblog. I am a big man who does brasilian jiu jitsu (or Gracie Jiu Jitsu). I currently train out of [...]
