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Posted on January 27, 2017

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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Posted on March 21, 2016

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, …

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Posted on May 18, 2015January 10, 2018

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 …

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Posted on April 15, 2015January 10, 2018

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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Posted on February 19, 2015January 10, 2018

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 …

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Posted on November 19, 2014January 10, 2018

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 …

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Posted on August 12, 2014

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 …

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Posted on May 19, 2014March 8, 2020

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 …

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