Jahanian Combat Press publishes long-form books, training journals, and field notes from the world of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu — with the care normally reserved for poetry collections.
Twelve years of training, twenty-one interviews, and one manuscript on the inner life of a jiu-jitsu practitioner.
Open the chapters →Essays, transcripts, and short pieces from teachers, students, and traveling competitors. Updated quarterly.
Browse essays →We meet with academies across the five boroughs to record their lineages, drills, and house rules.
Learn more →Most jiu-jitsu writing lives in YouTube comments and forum threads. We believe the art deserves a slower medium — one that respects the years it takes to earn a blue belt, let alone a black one. Every Jahanian title is edited over a minimum of fourteen months, printed on Mohawk Superfine, and bound in Long Island City.
Our editor-in-chief, Mark Diaz, trained for nine years at a small Tribeca academy before opening the press in 2019. The whole catalogue still fits on one shelf. That is the point.
Visit the studioA good book about jiu-jitsu does not teach you a single move. It teaches you how to keep showing up after the move stops working.
— Mark Diaz, Editor
Three hundred and twelve pages on the patience, doubt, and small joys of belt-by-belt practice. Foreword by a retired Carlson Gracie black belt. Available in hardcover and a limited cloth edition.