🧠 Weekly Question Time!

Alright team—let’s get into it! Drop your thoughts in the comments and feel free to tag your training partners 👇👊

How do you mentally reset after a tough or not-so-great training session?

We all have those days—what helps you bounce back and keep moving forward? 💭💪

Recent addition to the RŌL TV Library

The gift wrap position is one of the most powerful control points in jiu jitsu, and it opens the door to a variety of high-percentage chokes and submissions. Once you’ve secured your partner’s arm across their body and locked your own arm behind their head, you create a dominant angle that limits their movement and exposes their neck.

Question from one of our students:

What’s a life skill that Jiu Jitsu has either taught you or has allowed you to refine?

(Tag a friend in your comment)

On May 31, 2025, Adam Maslach led a focused Gi Seminar on one of the most essential — yet often overlooked — tools in grappling: the underhook. With his signature attention to detail, Adam broke down how the underhook functions as both an offensive and defensive anchor across multiple positions, including the clinch, guard, and passing scenarios.

Throughout the session, attendees explored how proper underhook mechanics can neutralize pressure, create angles, and lead directly to dominant transitions or submissions. Adam emphasized timing, grip efficiency, and body positioning to make the underhook not just a frame, but a pathway to control.Whether working from half guard or standing engagements, the seminar drove home one clear message: whoever wins the underhook often wins the exchange. Practical, positional drills reinforced the concepts, giving participants actionable tools to take back to their training.

This seminar is now available on RŌL TV.

https://rolacademy.tv/programs/2025-05-31-adam-maslach

Let’s be real for a second — we all have that one mistake that keeps showing up.

What’s the one habit or technical error in your Jiu Jitsu that you know is a problem… you’ve drilled the fix… you’ve had it pointed out… and yet, it still creeps in during training or rolls?

Let’s open up a bit — sometimes sharing these things helps us break the pattern (and lets others know they’re not alone). 👊

On June 23, 2025, Arman Fathi—Gracie University and 10th Planet’s only dual black belt—led a high-level seminar focused entirely on the Twister, one of the most iconic submissions in the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu system. The seminar broke down the Twister’s core mechanics, entries from various setups like lockdown and truck, and detailed transitions from the back. Fathi’s teaching style balanced technical depth with practical application, offering insights that bridged fundamentals and competition-level execution.

https://rolacademy.tv/programs/2025-05-23-arman-fathi

On May 21st, 2025, RŌL Academy welcomed Adam Maslach for a dynamic seminar dedicated to straight and folding ankle locks—two potent and often underutilized submission options in both gi and nogi grappling. Drawing from his extensive competition experience and technical precision, Adam delivered a focused and highly detailed exploration of lower limb control, leg entanglements, and the breaking mechanics that make ankle locks effective at the highest levels.

https://rolacademy.tv/programs/2025-05-21-adam-maslach

ROL TV is proud to introduce new additions to our ever-growing instructional library, featuring an insightful and highly practical series by Professor Russ focused on the straight ankle lock — one of the most fundamental yet powerful submissions in Jiu Jitsu.

What’s your favorite sweet or reversal? 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJovTK9RRAw/?igsh=cGMxaHFzdXJncnAy

We all learn from our instructors and coaches, but occasionally, we attend a class or seminar with a guest instructor who completely changes our perspective.

What was the most significant takeaway from a seminar or class you’ve attended in the past?