Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Problems? Grab them, take them to the floor and finish it!
Keeping concentration, focus and discipline is not an easy task. The busy routine, and problems that surround it, are a number of factors that do not help to get you …
3 White Belt Guard Mistakes
In recent weeks Gracie Barra Blog has published several articles on developing your guard. In the first couple of years of learning to defend the guard, there are certain mistakes that …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Peace of mind – you will find it in jiu-jitsu
Who has never faced a bad phase during his/her journey in the gentle art? Personal problems, work, and studies, among many other things, end up requiring us to make some kind …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: The 8th teaching of the father of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Carlos Gracie
Anyone who knows the teachings of Great Master Carlos Gracie, knows that the advice provided by the patriarch of the family is not related to ways of techniques executions or secrets …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Mistakes are necessary for the learning of a true champion
In the ring and in life the fight is the same one. You must face the problems […]”, This translated part of a song from “Pregador Luo” – known for …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: The victory of a training fellow is your victory as well
When we start our journey in the world of the gentle art, we learn not only the fighting techniques, but also how to grow as a team. That feeling that unites …
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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Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Anxious about a fight? Learn with the master how to control it.
Who has never felt the butterflies in their stomach before a competition? Not only at fight time, but days before, the first signs of anxiety and nervousness start to appear: …
3 Pieces of Advice for White Belts
90% of his success was just showing up.” Woody Allen On BJJ related internet message boards there are several popular topics that arise again and again.Two common themes that continually …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Concentration. May it mean everything in a competition?
How frequently do we feel weak in front of a new challenge? Often, even after years of training, we can even feel discouraged if we do not achieve that so-desired title in …