Why I don’t let students say “I suck” in training
One of my favorite chapters inside a book is chapter 2 of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. In this chapter he outlines the basic idea (that flows throughout the whole book) that one of the most powerful things human beings can do is. . . Tell fictional stories that create an imagined reality […]
Blue Belt Struggling with Guard Passing Against Flexible People in BJJ
In today’s BJJ technique video I share an idea on passing flexible people with the double under pass. The question comes from Rob who is struggling to finish the pass during his Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training. I give two different options for using the double under pass (sometimes called the double stack pass) on flexible guard […]
My small unathletic White Belt swept someone 80lbs heavier
Want to know what makes me the happiest as a BJJ coach? Watching a student hit a new technique that I KNOW I taught him. It’s the best! And that happened yesterday, let me tell ya the story. I have this young kid we’ll call Reginald. Reginald started training with me […]
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