To Compete or Not?
The covers of the jiu-jitsu magazines usually feature a top competitor fresh off of a championship victory. In their own way, the top competitors have become celebrities within the bjj world …
3 Tips For Your First Year of Training
The majority of students in any brazilian jiu-jitsu academy will be white belt students: those with less than one year of training. And most of them are not initially attracted to bjj …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Work your subjective jiu-jitsu
Anything can happen on the mat. What we experience on it not only gives us the lessons of BJJ techniques, but also great learnings we take out into our lives. Jiu-jitsu does have the power …
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Jiu-Jitsu Pet Peeves
Jiu-Jitsu can be a love-hate relationship. It can pull you in, changing your life forever. It’s a difficult journey and can cause frustrations that only a truly dedicated student of …