Judo Chop: Demian Maia's Hybrid Grappling Game

Demian Maia's impressive submission of Carlos Condit highlights the integration of wrestling into his Brazilian jiu jitsu.

Demian Maia has long been known as one of the very best jiu jitsu practitioners in the world, and he has been on a 2-year, 6-fight winning streak that has featured masterful grappling performances. His most recent submission of Carlos Condit on the UFC on Fox 21 card turned heads. Condit is well known for being a very able, dangerous grappler and Maia submitted him in just under two minutes.

Maia's grappling game has always been strong but in the years since his loss to Anderson Silva, he has been working very hard on improving his wrestling. Those improvements have fed…