Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: What kind of athlete is your idol?
Which criteria would you considerate to choose you idols in Jiu-Jitsu? Everyone is different. And so are the evaluation criteria, but we do believe that all of us have some …
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GB Blog: CHILDREN x COMPETITION
Recently, GB won four trophies – 3rd place overall, 1st place Children, 1st place Junior and 2nd place Teenagers – in one of the largest children’s competitions in the world, …
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 …
6 Things Your Coach Yells at You During Your Match
During tournament matches, and even in rolls in bjj class, your professor will often yell out instructions to you (often in thickly Brazilian accented English). At a tournament in a hotly …
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Off the Gym: Competition Blues
How much pride do you have in your game? How much trust have you put into your training for you to make it to the big leagues? Are you ready to …
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 …
Tournament Mistakes That You Can Avoid
A tournament is a culminating activity where BJJ artists get to test their strengths against other competitors. The excitement built up can be unnerving. After all, there is no way …
Jiu-Jitsu Lifestyle: Women and Jiu-JItsu
Jiu-Jitsu is for everyone. And women have been equals of men, or even better, for a long time. The good thing about Jiu-Jitsu is that it recognizes no gender or …