3 Things to Expect in Your First Jiu Jitsu Class Check out these 3 things that you should expect when attending your first Jiu Jitsu Class. Expect to sweat! You’re going to be moving for the majority of the time you are in class. Your heart rate will be elevated and you’ll be using muscles […]
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Post Newb Annihilation “Not quite a newb, not yet the Pro.” So you’ve been doing BJJ for a bit now. I guess you could say things are getting serious. You train three to four times a week and have totally been bitten by the BJJ bug. By now you’ve gotten a few stripes and can […]
Confidence is King in a Field of Weakness Today we have soft kids, entitled generations and soft men. All with the voice of giants (on the internet) but lack the experience of having bad experiences to back them up. If you’re over 30 years old, you can look back on a few moments in your […]
BEING DEPRESSED SUCKS!! How do you cope with it? Do you just sweep it under the rug? Overeat? Medicate? ACCORDING TO THE ADAA (ANXIETY & DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) in 2015, 15 MILLION ADULTS WERE AFFECTED BY DEPRESSION OR ANXIETY. 15 million! HOLY HELL! That, with zero doubt, tells you that someone you know is affected […]
Competition. Should you do the damn thing? What is that thing anyway? I can remember when I fell in love with competing. I’m not sure when I started but, I can remember the night where my views on competition turned from playful games to something much more intimate. I found something inside of me that […]
BJJ is a Video Game Man. First off, if you have friends that haven’t played video games, they are OLD AS HELL! After a monster training session on the mat at Vagabond BJJ, a student and I were talking about how to get their friends interested in BJJ. He has a couple of buddies in […]
When’s the last time you thought about the health of your heart? Do you wonder what that double w/cheese is doing to you as you snarf it down? You can do better, man and you know it. Look, I’m not gonna sit here and tell you how to eat. I can but, you’re grown, you […]
How Many Times A Week Should I Be Training? I don’t know…how good do you want to be? Let’s talk about it. There is a school of thought that you should “Go hard or go home.” The other side of that coin is “Quality over Quantity.” Which one is for you? Maybe somewhere in between? Really, […]
For Real Though. What the Hell Is It? Look, I can give you the history of this and how far back in history that goes but, really, that ain’t all that interesting and I’d lose you by the end of the next paragraph. So, I’ll tell you something cooler. I started Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in mid-2006. […]
Could You Imagine What it’s Like to Lose 100lbs? Shoot. Some of us would disappear or, just be a sack of vital organs. I’ve had the pleasure of coaching two students through their journey of losing 100+ lbs. Losing this amount of weight is astonishing to think about. What it takes to lose that is […]