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Death is a tough thing to accept. I got a call last night. My youngest blue-belt, Chris, is dead. Fuck! 17 years old—a senior in high school—the greatest kid in the world. I found out this morning it may have been suicide. Chris was energy, and youthfulness, and always bouncing off the walls and when [...]

1. they have at least one cauliflower ear (if they have two…run) 2. they’re wearing a gi under their clothes 3. they’re the nicest person you’ve ever met (too nice) 4. they call you “my friend” 5. they carry a mouth piece in their pocket 6. they smell like a wrestling mat 7. they have [...]

I’m 39. On December 3rd, 2009 I’ll be forty. I want to train with forty of my friends and students on my birthday. Forty people in a row—if that doesn’t kill me, I will roll against forty-one in 2010. (This is not a mid-life crisis thing.) I can’t think of anything else I’d rather do [...]

It’s time to start BJJ Day! October 1st (Helio Gracie’s birthday) will be national BJJ Day. I know it’s awfully presumptuous of me to start a day, but I’ve been doing some research on days that are celebrated—days that someone, some where started—and if these days are recognized, then I’m sure there is room for [...]

I’m always trying to come up with ways to make money, not because I’m greedy or avaricious, but because I need it to fund my ideas and dreams. Not to mention to feed and house my family and myself. Money’s pretty important. I hate to say that, but it is. Right now in my business, [...]

Hate’s a pretty strong word, and the fact is I’ve never met Brock Lesnar, so I guess what I really mean is I hate what Lesnar represents and that to me is meat-headedness–no technique. A big barbarian who smashes through opponents with no style, just mass and aggression, and the fact that he got a [...]

What if there were jiu-jitsu Zombies, and instead of eating your brains, they tried to submit you. They’d follow you around all day, in massive mobs of the dead trying to pull rear naked chokes on you, and if you tapped, you’d become a zombie too. I wouldn’t mind that world; I think I could [...]

Jiu-jitsu is all about patience. Business is less stressful if you’re patient. I’m not patient when it comes to business and that costs money, because I make hasty decisions. I can have a 300 lb man’s belly on my head all day. Yes it sucks; no, I can’t breathe, but I know it’s just a [...]

Money…never had too much of it in my life, never been good at saving it, always had reasons to spend it. Don’t get the wrong idea. I’m pretty frugal with my money (I’ve had the same pair of tennis shoes for going on three years). Now I need a chunk of money to get things [...]

The difference between dreams and reality is a set of balls (metaphorical balls of course. I know plenty of women with a huge set of figurative balls). You have to have balls to turn your dreams into something real; you cannot be a wuss. I played division-one football with a guy named Joe Jacobs. Big [...]

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