After having failed pretty miserably my first time around, I competed in another competition a couple of months later. At this point, I had been training for 3 months and…
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Yesterday I was asked what the most important concept I have learned thus far in Jiu Jitsu. This was in response to my post on teaching concept vs. teaching technique….
Some of the best advice I’ve ever read was from a book by Sam Sheridan called The Fighters Mind. In it was an excerpt on Randy Couture and one of the quotes…
“When the fight is on the ground, do work. When the fight is on your feet, move forward” –Nick Diaz We all struggle. It’s part of the process. Things will…
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…
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…