Shake yourself from the dust and arise. Loose the bonds from your neck.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu involves getting intimately acquainted with other people's armpits, crotches, and questionable life choices. Here's how to keep your breath fresh, your gi clean, your nails short, and your training partners from avoiding you like the plague.
On Jiu-Jitsu, the snooze button, and refusing to go gently into that good night. Click here for the entire BJJ White Belt Survival Guide. The number one question you will be asked, either by yourself or by others, is why. Why do you train Brazilian jiu-jitsu? There are a lot of easier and less painful… Continue reading Why Train BJJ?
Your first BJJ class is confusing enough without accidentally breaking the unwritten rules. Learn the basics of gym and mat etiquette so you don't commit seppuku before your first roll.
Taking your first BJJ class? Here's what to expect, from meeting your training partners and learning mat etiquette to surviving your first roll.
New to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? The BJJ White Belt Survival Guide covers what beginners need to know about training, surviving class, and not being a spaz.
I knew after two weeks of dating Amanda that I wanted to marry her. Not the casual “she seems nice" kind of wanting, but the all-consuming, no-turning-back certainty that changes everything. To be fair, I had already known her for 4-5 years at that point, and she is a really good cook (a key selling… Continue reading Jump All In: The Cold Water Won’t Kill You (But Hesitation Might)
“I should just quit.” That’s what I thought to myself one morning months ago while driving home from a particularly discouraging jiu-jitsu training. I had been stuck on the bottom again with the air smashed out of me, I had missed takedowns, and got submitted over and over. “I’m not improving, and I’m going to… Continue reading On Quitting
Meekness is the word of the month at the jiu jitsu gym where I train. Friends circled up after 30 mins of trying to choke each other, the concept of meekness went over our heads. At first glance meekness seems like weakness or submissiveness. One argues that it is not a masculine trait to be… Continue reading Blessed are the Meek?
