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I appreciate your help. I still have a window wrap that I need to work on as well as signage, so I’ll be asking for your opinion on those as well. Thanks in advance.

Could you give me your opinion on these two rough ideas for business cards. The top two would be on one side and the ones on the bottom would be on the back. If I handed you one of these cards which would you respond to, the cartoon octopus or the tentacle? Which is the [...]

* click on Calendar for bigger version. I’m going to start posting a monthly calendar for West Side on this site. If you have anything going on you want me to add, let me know. Grapplers Challenge (Tournament) WCFC (MMA Fights) Eccles Center Fights (So You Wanna Fight)

*Ogden High School teachers showing their “tattoos.” On occasion, people’s compassion and kindness catch me by surprise. It happened today at my high school where my fellow teachers, in a show of solidarity, donned temporary tattoos to support me as well as their dislike for the new dress code. That last part I’m not sure [...]

Today I had a short meeting with Damon Stewart, he owns Wasatch Crossfit in Layton; he called me last week about the possibility of teaching some BJJ kids’ classes out there. Nothing’s been finalized, but I’m thinking were in, it sounds like something that would be good for West Side. I liked the facility and [...]

Life isn’t easy. One of our High School Jiu-Jitsu kids came and saw me yesterday, he hadn’t been coming to class and he wanted to explain why. (This kid would be phenomenal at jiu-jitsu. He’s 17, on the wrestling team, and is an exceptional athlete. In one year he would be a force. Plus he [...]

There aren’t a lot of jiu-jitsu guys that have long hair—there are some–but for the most part, very few. Long hair just gets in the way. I’m often asked about my dread locks, especially by my high school kids who think it means that I smoke weed, and that misunderstanding of my hairstyle keeps me [...]

. . . If I was a Star Wars character I’d be a bad guy; I’d be a darth. My name would be Darth Jitsu and I would be bad. I wouldn’t carry a light saber; I would use the force and air choke everyone. Yeah—Darth Jitsu. I would have cool one-liners like, “The jiu-jitsu [...]

High School Jiu-Jitsu classes are going well, and their teachers are doing an excellent job of teaching. Yesterday I noticed (with my nose) that a couple of kids weren’t washing their gis, so I mentioned it to them. No one wants to roll with a smelly person, plus it’s unsanitary. The girls seemed to be [...]

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