Do You Think You Are Ready For Your Blue Belt? An instructor's 4 Points checklist
Bjj students are generally a pretty high energy, motivated lot. It takes a certain type of mind set to show up at the academy week after week and learn what …
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Are You Ready For Your Blue belt?
An Instructors Opinion After a student has been training for at least a year they have started to look pretty good on the mats. No longer making newbie mistakes like …
What Sports Can Teach Your Kids
Kids: our future. And everyone knows that their development is crucial to a lifetime full of potential; everyone needs to agree that at some point, exposing our young ones to the right …
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 …
Why I Wear a Mouth Guard
Why I Wear a Mouth Guard Safety should be a top priority at any Jiu-Jitsu academy. This means having safe training partners, a clean training environment, and protective gear when …
Social Media and the Evolution of Jiu-Jitsu
The popularity of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has grown substantially in the past couple of decades. Factors such as the rise of Mixed Martial Arts can explain how the world was exposed …
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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 …
Gene Pace earns his Black Belt at the age 78
“The best way to describe Gene is that he just executes what you teach him to do,” Buckels said. “If you show him a move, he will go after that …
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Renzo Gracie visiting the HQ
We were pleased to receive a visit from Professor Renzo Gracie last night in the HQ. Renzo is one of the first Black Belts promoted by Master Carlos Gracie Jr …