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Dante Leon: “The Best Way To Get Good At Jiu-Jitsu Is Starting In The Gi”

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July 10, 2026

Dante Leon grew up training Jiu-Jitsu almost entirely in the gi. When he began competing in the mid-2000s, no-gi was barely an afterthought at most academies, with the weekly schedule typically built around gi training and only a single, sparsely attended no-gi class squeezed in. He recalled it as: Mainly gi every day or every […]

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