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The first few tournaments that we attend as jiu-jitsu competitors are inherently going to be tough. Odds are that new competitors will lose, and lose often. Odds are that you’ll be a weight-class or even two higher than your healthy weight, and you won’t be ready to apply techniques that you’ve learned in training. While […]
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the most effective martial art for self defense in the world. BJJ practitioners spend hours and hours perfecting their craft, being humbled by the mats and the people they train with. However, every now and then, you come across someone who can use a little more humbling in their life. Watch […]
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. It’s a long journey and very humiliating and you have to proceed in that manner. You have to accept that there is always someone better, more technical, faster, stronger. It’s just a wonderful journey that I would recommend to everyone. – Maynard […]
There’s a reason why Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the most effective self defense martial art for self defense in the world. Here is yet another example of why. While the BJJ guy could have done a few things different (no crossing your ankles when you have someone’s back) we’re glad to see that he made […]
The thing about being a white belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is that everyone starts there. While it may be difficult to imagine someone like Professor Mikal going through the same white belt struggles that the rest of us did, rest assured that it happened! Along the Jiu Jitsu white belt journey, there are going […]
There’s a reason that everyone in Jiu Jitsu is not on the same team or under the same coach. There’s a reason that people choose to train with one coach over another. The reality is that even though Jiu Jitsu is a world of its own with a lot of commonalities, there are many different […]
Roberto Gomez’s pain was over the edge, though he’d had a nauseous feeling, a rapid heartbeat, and green spots in his vision for days, according to Gomez’s older brother. Roberto Gomez poured himself a glass of milk early Wednesday morning before going to bed and suddenly felt waves of pain up the right side of […]
It was the perfect way to honor her mother. And given what she had been through to reach this point, there was no chance that Dakota Zimmerman would let the opportunity slip away. On May 30 at Long Beach State University in California, Zimmerman won the world title in the adult female light-feather division at […]
While the current administration may not be keen on fighting back against tyranny and evil all over the world, it’s good to know that Uncle Sam is still on the side of truth and justice. In a never before seen video, Uncle Sam finds a few bad guys hanging out in a gym preparing to […]
WASHINGTON –Whether you believe that champions are born or that they are made, Shane Jamil Hill-Taylor is irrefutable proof that they cross paths with Howard University. The senior sports management major and jiu-jitsu athlete was recently crowned the 5th International Brazilian Jui-Jitsu Federation World Champion, making him the very first African-American to hold the title. On Monday, June […]