BJJ Pioneers Quiz: Who Invented What in Jiu-Jitsu?

Behind every guard and every system, there is a name. De la Riva, rubber guard, worm guard, berimbolo: this BJJ pioneers quiz covers the inventors who shaped the modern game.

What this quiz tests

This BJJ pioneers quiz connects each innovation to its creator: Ricardo De la Riva’s guard, Eddie Bravo’s rubber guard and 10th Planet school, Keenan Cornelius’s worm guard, the berimbolo popularized by the Mendes brothers, John Danaher’s system and the institutional work of Carlos Gracie Jr. Eddie Bravo’s founding upset happened at the trials stage of the tournament whose ruleset lives on the official ADCC website.

Knowing these genealogies changes how you see every technique: eight questions to place the inventors, with corrections telling the story behind each great innovation. Every term is defined in our BJJ glossary.

Every answer comes with a detailed correction. To keep playing, all our quizzes are on the BJJ-Rules quiz page.