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. . It’s our mind that tells us we can do it. It’s our ability to be mentally tough that helps us to do great things, but it is our hearts that separate us from everyone else. Our hearts do what our minds tell us we can do. We need both to succeed. I love [...]

Glenn Davis posted this on Facebook today. It’s awesome. I felt I had to share it.

West Side’s Clint Christensen after winning the no-gi absolute Gold Medal match at the Northwest Submission Challenge. There is a difference between rolling for an hour with your gym mates at the school and competing in a jiu-jitsu tournament; the two are a sort of a contradiction. In your school you are always being told [...]

. . . At West Side we have a bunch of kids that are really good at jiu-jitsu. I mean they’re good. Not only are they good, but they are young, some of the best ones are only six years old, so I started thinking, If I knew jiu-jitsu at six years old how would [...]

This is actually a love story, not between Kimbo Slice and a ninja, but between Jeff Moore and his wife Katchie. Jeff trains at West Side, all muscley and kind, and educated. He works hard. He’s been dubbed the “Ginga Ninja” by his gym mates. His wife is Katchie, a hair dresser, nice to a [...]

Saturday was the 2nd Annual Northwest Submission Challenge; West Side went. We had fun. I am a big fan of tournaments. The best thing about them for me is it brings your team together. Your family gets closer in battle. Another reason I like tournaments is that they expose you to all kinds of people [...]

. . . I had a guy from USU (Chris Hathaway) come into the gym in Logan a couple of weeks ago. He wants to do an interview; he wants to get some information about the school. here are the questions he posed. Questions are like a time machine swooping you back to the past. [...]

. . . I wrote this post almost a year ago trying to develop my ideas for my Tap or Die Company and I realized that Tap or Die is really an extension of West Side which is really an extension of me, and I of course am built from the relationships I have with [...]

Today is the first day of West Side Academy’s High School Jiu-Jitsu Program and I’m going to ask you for a favor. It’s not money. The program is free (twice a week for a year) to 30 High School students, most of the thirty cannot afford gis. Once the program gets going we are going [...]

Anger is something I don’t like to carry around, so I abandon it any time I can. I like to leave my anger on the front steps. Anger to me is useless; it causes more problems than it solves. At the gym this week we had two incidents that involved anger and those things cannot [...]

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