Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: How to control anxiety?
In the pre-championship stage, on those days preceding graduation or, the most common of all: that strange feeling just before stepping on the competition mat. What all these situations have …
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Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Believing in yourself is the key to the success
How many times does nervousness come up right in the pre-competition stage? Numerous! Besides natural pressure experienced during a championship, and several other factors – psychological or not – lead …
Taking Care of your Mind is Jiu-Jitsu: Do you think you are the best one in the trainings? Do not like it.
Nothing is more unpleasant than that inconvenient guy who thinks he is the best one in training. Unfortunately, there are practitioners of various sports with such mentality. Being individualistic and extremely …
What does the name "jiu-jitsu" mean?
Have you ever wondered why we have this different name for our sport? Despite the history of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – developed by Great Master Carlos Gracie, the name “jiu-jitsu” has …
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 …
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: 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: 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 …