WATCH: “They’re doing John Wick drills” – Unique BJJ training with firearm has MMA fans in shock

Exciting John Wick-style BJJ training video goes viral, demonstrating grappling techniques in a unique context with a thrown gun.

WATCH: “They’re doing John Wick drills” – Unique BJJ training with firearm has MMA fans in shock

John Wick style BJJ practice session (Image via: Instagram, X)

The UFC is the premier MMA promotion in the world. At the beginning of the UFC, BJJ fighters dominated the game. Royce Gracie neutralized bigger opponents than himself with exceptional BJJ. Now, fighters like Charles Oliveira and Brian Ortega have used their BJJ skills to be at the top of their division. Even Hollywood movie star Keanu Reeves studied BJJ for the renowned John Wick film franchise.

In the John Wick films, Reeves played the titular character, an expert hitman. A blend of shooting guns and BJJ dominated the action sequences throughout the movie. Recently, A video went viral on social media as a BJJ training school used John Wick-like training. In the video, a gun is at first thrown to the mat. After that, two BJJ grapplers attempt to take control of the gun, all the while using BJJ maneuvers.

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A shirtless man and a man who wore a black shirt contested in the video. The shirtless man was the first to get hold of the gun. However, the other man used BJJ maneuvers to get the gun for himself as he went into half-guard and triangle choke attempts. Nevertheless, he was unsuccessful as the shirtless man moved the gun to the other hand and ultimately got up. Nonetheless, the contest ended as the shirtless man put the other man at gunpoint at near point-blank range.

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There is no possible explanation why such a different training took place except for inspiration from John Wick. The movie popularized the action movie genre with the adept use of different martial arts techniques, primarily that of BJJ.

Fight fans react to John Wick-type BJJ training with a firearm

The video clip of the BJJ training with a firearm did not go unnoticed on social media. It spread like wildfire on various social media platforms. Social media platform X alone got more than half a million views for the viral video.

John Wick style BJJ practice session with a gun
John Wick-style BJJ practice session with a gun (Image via X)

Nonetheless, see how the fight fans reacted to the viral training video below.

Fight fans found the video very intriguing as they highlighted the real-life scenario applicable to it. Nonetheless, training BJJ with a live firearm can cause irreversible damage. Therefore, such training should be done only with an inactive firearm.

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