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I’ve decided to commit 100% to my school and Tap or Die. So I’m making a public declaration that I Mark Johnson will commit all my resources, efforts, and time to make West Side Jjiu-Jitsu Academy and the Tap or Die jiu-jitsu company successful businesses and social organizations. It’s time to put in work.

When I asked people for comments on the Tap or Die pit bull shirt a friend of mine wrote: “just a word of caution, to people outside the loop, a pit bull on a shirt for a fight school may seem suggestive (to the condoning of dog fighting here at West Side) to those who [...]

Being a porucpine wouldn’t be too bad.

Here’s some proof that the porcupine’s a bad ass. Porcipine 1, bull terrier 0. Maybe the porcupine really is a good representative of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

I was watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon with my son—I like it—I’d probably have watched it without him. I noticed something that has become more and more obvious to me the last couple of years, and that is the fight scenes in TV shows and movies are changing. During this episode of The [...]

I’m using my own judgement on this. I would buy this shirt and I think it represents Tap or Die. So it is done, Tap or Die’s first shirt. I do like the BJJ Lesson shirt (below), but I’m going with this one first. If you want to pre-order a shirt email me johnsonm@ogdensd.org.

Goals are great. I have plenty of goals, getting a black belt, running profitable businesses, what I need now are deadlines. I have a goal of getting some Tap or Die shirts done. I have a lot to do before that happens, so to keep myself focused I’m going to give myself a dead line—July [...]

Okay, those of you who are helping me on this with your ideas and comments, what do you think of this. Tap or Die on the front with the logo like below, and the arm with the bone sticking out on the back? Please give me some feed back.

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