This week I wanted to build off last week’s triangle set up. This time, I’m hitting it when my opponent tries to hide his inside arm towards the outside. I…
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Typically when I teach private lessons, I spend 75% of the time teaching concepts and a lot less time teaching actual technique. I save techniques for specific areas where my…
There will be a lot of movements in Jiu Jitsu that require both speed and accuracy. Some will require a little more speed, others will require a little more accuracy….
Over the last week and a half, I have been working on a presentation for my cognitive neuroscience course on this phenomenon called the “Attentional Blink”. I’ll spare the details…
This is a #TBT from my old blog: matwork100. The blog didn’t work out too well –mainly I stopped adding to the content. Earlier today I taught a fundamentals class….
I remember my first ever jiu jitsu tournament. I was a white belt and had only been training for about one month and decided why not? I was kind of…
One of the many differences we notice between high level jiu jitsu practitioners and ourselves is that perhaps our reaction time is incredibly slower and our muscle memory isn’t quite…
Yesterday, I posted about an article that suggested 10 reasons why you’re broke. Whether you’re broke or not is irrelevant but the 10 points this article brought up were all…
How well you do in jiu jitsu will largely depend on how much effort you put in. It seems over the last few weeks, I’ve spoken to students that are…
Recently, a friend of mine posted a link from a site Wallstreet Playboys entitled “Top 10 Reasons Why you are Broke”. Being as how I teach jiu jitsu and I…