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Walking the Dogs, Nostalgia, and Risking Permanent Injuries for Glory
It’s around noon eastern standard time here in southern Ontario Canada. It’s 2°C, cloudy, with a chance of drizzle. Currently, I’m out walking our two dogs and using speech-to-text and talking into the Notes app on my iPhone. And in less than 24 hours I will be fighting a bunch of 20 something year olds […]
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Getting My Fourth Stripe on My White Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
You’ve come a long way since walking into the gym and signing up for a jujitsu membership. Just walking through the doors and deciding that this is something you want to dedicate your time to, is a feat unto itself. A reminder that most people don’t do jujitsu, most people who do join end up, […]
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My Jiu Jitsu Game: A Breakdown Analysis by a Black Belt
A BJJ black belt by the name of Matt, was nice enough to reach out to me with an idea. Matt is working on a BJJ idea where he offers people a chance to submit footage of a competition match or a rolling session, and a black belt (him) reviews it, and returns the footage […]
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Signed up for another Jiu Jitsu tournament for January 2023
I signed up for a No Gi AND Gi competition. Round Robin. I’ve never done a No Gi Comp but why the heck not. This will be my third competition ever. I’m currently 0-2 in competing in bjj. I have a good feeling about this next one. I have to make sure I don’t psych […]
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Mistakes, Entropy, and Infinity OR A Blog Post to Keep You Going
Do you ever mess up? Make decisions that clearly aren’t a good idea? Wish you could take back what you did? I know you have. I have too. Because we’re humans. With all the beauty, ugliness, stupidity, and genius that comes with it. Entropy dictates we can’t go back in time. We can’t change what […]
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Motor Imagery and Visualization in Jiu Jitsu OR How to Get Better at BJJ if You Can’t Train
This week I won’t be going to jiu jitsu class because of a cold. Rest and recovery is what I need. And lots of hot Aguapanela with ginger (a Latin American home remedy for when you are sick, and it’s tasty). Since starting BJJ over a year ago, I’ve had to take weeks off, here […]
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Should White Belts Give Advice?
People have opinions about everything. Jiu jitsu is no exception. At least the people on BJJ Twitter are far more reasonable and nicer than MMA Twitter. Go see for yourself. You would think people with no fighting experience wouldn’t get so upset about the intricacies of a pay per view bought. I try and stay […]
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What Keeps You Showing Up to Jiu Jitsu?
Hello fellow white belts! I asked the question “What keeps you showing up to jiu jitsu practice?” on Twitter. The responses were great and also helped me ponder why I keep showing up each week to BJJ as well. Here are the responses I’ve got so far to, “What keeps you showing up to jiu […]
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Losing a Match in a Jiu Jitsu Competition
I’m 0-2 in jiu jitsu competition. Remember when I said not to get discouraged in jujitsu? I should’ve taken my own advice. “Our Jiu-jitsu game is so personal to us that we take losing personal. We need to approach it more from a scientific approach. You don’t suck, you just haven’t figured out the answer […]
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Have You Ever Switched BJJ Gyms?
Here is a question from Brooks, from our private BJJ Lounge Twitter Space… “What has your experience been like switching gyms? I love where I am but there’s another nice place that I’ve visited that’s much closer to where I live.” I’ll go first. Since I’ve only been doing it for just over a year […]
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