BJJ insights

I typically don’t like to talk arts down.  I sincerely believe that every art has its benefits, and every art has its sportier or rococo

A young student recently mentioned that despite now wearing a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blue belt he had felt no “epiphany” moments in his training.  He was

My friends, challenging yourself is living. Bring on Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Yes you could sit and watch other people do it. You could dial in the

A Few Words About Rank Every so often we’re faced with the question of what the belts mean. And while most of us aren’t terribly

You’ve been practicing the sweeps all evening and finally it’s time to roll. You’ve been looking forward to the action. You tag hands and your

I’ve noticed a few messages floating around the interwebs promoting this idea that “Brazilian” Jiu-jitsu and “Gracie” Jiu-jitsu are distinct martial arts that are somehow

There are so many ways to train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. There’s position training, there’s slow-flow training, there’s technique drilling, there’s training handicapped—one-handed, no handed, not using

While the great Saulo Ribero has a famous book that categorizes technique by belt rank, there’s no such official testing or division of material in