{"id":920,"date":"2022-12-30T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=920"},"modified":"2023-01-02T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:34:36","slug":"bjj-prodigy-helena-crevar-moves-to-new-wave-jiu-jitsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/bjj-prodigy-helena-crevar-moves-to-new-wave-jiu-jitsu\/","title":{"rendered":"BJJ Prodigy Helena Crevar Moves To New Wave Jiu-Jitsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the most promising BJJ\/Grappling competitors of the new generation has changed BJJ academy. Helena Crevar, known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/helenajiujitsugirl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helena Jiu Jitsu Girl<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram, will train under John Danaher and represent New Wave Jiu Jitsu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, Helena Craver has trained under the supervision of world champion Hector Vasquez in Las Vegas. The talented teenager trained at Cobrinha BJJ Las Vegas . Helena and her parents moved to Austin to be able to train with one of the best trainers in the world \u2013 John Danaher. Her parents are from Serbia and were both professional athletes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Helena will be 16 in January and in the meantime she has won PAN Kids 6 times . She holds a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and this year she won the ADCC for teens. In her record, she already has 17 wins at Fight 2 Win galas, where she is the owner of the junior championship belt (she has already defended it four times). Interestingly, on the\u00a0BJJ Fanatics platform\u00a0you can already buy several of her\u00a0instructionals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bjjee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/helena.jpg\" alt=\"Teen BJJ Prodigy Relocates To Texas with her Parents To Train with Danaher &amp; Gordon Ryan\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teenager is extremely grateful for the opportunity to train with Danaher and Ryan. We are waiting for the first performances under the banner of New Wave Jiu Jitsu. The support of Helena\u2019s parents is the key to her success, because they left their lives in Las Vegas and moved with their daughter to Austin so that she could train in one of the best teams in the world. And yes, on his Instagram, Gordon Ryan welcomed the young BJJ star.<\/p>\n<p>Helena announced the news on her IG:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith this post, I\u2019d like to announce that me and my parents just moved to Austin, Texas and that I will be training and competing under @danaherjohn @gordonlovesjiujitsu and the New Wave JiuJitsu team. I\u2019m super grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to represent New Wave!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cmo6mYCJ46r\/embed\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bjjee.com&amp;rp=%2Farticles%2Fteen-bjj-prodigy-relocates-to-texas-with-her-parents-to-train-with-danaher-gordon-ryan%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A3964.899999976158%2C%22ls%22%3A1222.7999999523163%2C%22le%22%3A3575.1999999284744%7D\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Danaher\u00a0is one of the greatest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coaches in the sport\u2019s history. However, even Danaher has some aspects to his career that he wishes were more successful \u2013 such as producing female champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He explained why this is the case in a recent interview for the\u00a0Jiujiteira Magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the face of it, one of the great failures of my career, thus far, is that I\u2019ve never produced a female champion. And it\u2019s natural to ask me: \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the answer is that I never engage into recruiting; I never actively \u201cpull\u201d people to the gym\u2026 I open the door and whoever comes, I teach. So, it tends to be a self-selected group of people that I teach.<br \/>\nAnd the door is open two ways; to walk in and to walk out, and a lot of people walk out. My teaching style isn\u2019t for everybody. Some people like it, some people don\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He emphasized that he never pushed people to compete:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the gym itself, there is a pretty high number of females. But I never push people to compete. I was never the coach that would say: \u201cHey man, you\u2019re good! You gotta go out and compete.\u201d I\u2019ve literally never said that. I never recruit and I never tell people they have to compete.<\/p>\n<p>And so what happens is that the people who compete, always do so by their own volition. So, I do have many female students. Some of them do compete, but I don\u2019t actively push them to compete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, Danaher believes that a New Wave female champion is an inevitability:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do believe that, inevitably in the future \u2013 as the number of female athletes increase \u2013 we will start seeing female champions. But I have never actively pushed for any one group of people to succeed in competition. So, it\u2019s been a self-selecting process.<\/p>\n<p>The females who train with me are already achieving a good level of competence and one day they\u2019re going to be successful in competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Helena Crevar is an up-and-coming Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion who has dominated in the world of competition and is here to show you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bjjfanatics.com\/products\/the-best-submissions-from-open-closed-guard-by-helena-crevar?rfsn=575665.4967e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the best attacks from open and closed guard<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Begin by understanding the fundamentals of closed guard and see how these strategies translate into successful submissions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dive into transitions and submissions from the open guard such as De La Riva armbar transition to omoplata armbar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most promising BJJ\/Grappling competitors of the new generation has changed BJJ academy. Helena Crevar, known as\u00a0Helena Jiu Jitsu Girl\u00a0on Instagram, will train under John Danaher and represent New Wave Jiu Jitsu. So far, Helena Craver has trained under the supervision of world champion Hector Vasquez in Las Vegas. The talented teenager trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jiujitsu-bresilien","8":"category-grappling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}