Aug
7
West Side Social Club is Born
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Well, the West Side Social Club is born. Our first project will be “West Side’s Cage Night” an exhibition for business owners who could possibly sponsor some of our fighters. It will be a networking event to introduce the school to community businesses as well as help our fighters with sponsorships. I’m excited to get [...]
Aug
7
The Importance of Testing
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I’ll be testing for my brown belt in September. I’m excited about it. It’s weird because when I first started Brazilian jiu-jitsu I was never interested in belts—I just wanted to learn. I trained for about four or five years before I tested for my blue—I just never had the desire to move up in [...]
Aug
5
West Side Social Club
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I always have people asking me what they can do to help me with my jiu-jitsu school. I think it’s very nice, and for a long time I’ve always said, “nothing, I’ll let you know if I need anything.” Well, now’s the time. I think people like to be involved in something and today is [...]
Aug
4
Boy Scouts, Football, and Jiu-Jitsu
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Groups are important. They have a direct influence on the people we become. I was thinking about the groups that have most influenced me, not groups that I was born in, like my family, or being African-American, but the groups that I joined of my own volition. What groups did I belong to that really [...]
Aug
2
Creating Space and Freedom
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My youngest son is learning to crawl. He doesn’t quite have it down yet, but he works pretty hard at it. Right now he does more of a belly thing than a traditional crawl. I noticed his ability to move allows him way more freedom. Let me repeat that, his ability to move allows him [...]
Aug
1
Lesnar vs. Fedor, see it here first!
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I really dislike Brock Lesnar and apparently this animator does too.
