Thank you for another great year!!  2013 is getting ready to close, and we look forward to growing, and reaching out to more martial artists at our academy and association schools in the USA.  I want to thank each and every one of our students, and representatives.  Enjoy! Professor William Vandry   Cedar park seminar […]

To all of my students, I invite and ask for your support towards your technical training, development of newer strategies, supporting your community, and meeting new cousins from different schools.  Our December 7, 2013 VBJJA quarterly clinic will be one clinic for 2 and 1/2 hours of the newest techniques, strategies and theories to develop

October 26, 2013 MMA clinic was taught at the VBJJ academy in Austin, Texas.  Experienced students in BJJ, MMA and striking to novices attended.  The techniques taught ranged from fundamental to intermediate striking drills, to clinches to throws to grappling.  The clinic was taught due to requests from many VBJJ students and fans of the UFC and

October 19 was a full house of Vandry BJJ Association students in Brownsville, Texas.  Professor William Vandry taught at Manny Galvan’s Brownsville, Texas Association school.  Brownsville was the first Association school under the William Vandry BJJ Association formed in 2003.  Vandry’s association is designed to reach out to students in areas of Texas and other

The Vandry View – October 2013 article Developing the Leglock game Leglocks are an intriguing part of grappling, and are used in MMA, BJJ, Sambo and No gi grappling tournaments.  I coined Leglocks as the Great Equalizer.  I wrote a book and it was published in 2005, aptly named Leglocks: The Great Equalizer!  The meaning

October 2013 article   Over the years I’ve learned a few things about improving and progressing in the martial arts.  No matter what area of the martial arts you are trying to get better at, there are some principles that will help you make steady, consistent gains no matter what your current skill level is.

October 5, 2013 VBJJ student, Josh Estrada won by unanimous decision at a Mixed martial arts event in Chicago, PA.  Estrada, originally from Chicago, moved to Austin, Texas earlier this year.  When Estrada moved to Austin, he immediately began training at Vandry BJJ.  Estrada is a humble, hard training student who constantly improves his game. 

Professor Marcos Santos (4th degree Black belt BJJ) is teaching BJJ classes in the Dallas Ft. Worth area.  Professor Santos has trained under masters of the art of BJJ, beginning with Master Francisco Mansor, a 9th degree Red belt legend who learned from Carlos and Helio Gracie.  Santos also has directly trained and studied BJJ