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Mar
31
There aren’t a lot of fat people in jiu-jitsu, there are some, but certainly not a lot. There are not a lot of fat people as role models either. Let’s see, there’s Kung Fu Panda, Friar Tuck, the Buddha (the fat one with the long ear lobes, not the skinny one.) Ummm…hmmm…let’s see, that’s pretty [...]
Mar
30
When we’re first learning to do something, like jiu-jitsu for example, a lot of the time our style is our teacher’s style. We move and act and react like the person who is teaching us. Our teacher’s style is like an old bicycle that we borrow. We ride it around and enjoy it. We are [...]
Mar
29
Right now I’m reading a book called The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by physicist and mathmatician Brian Greene. Quantum physics and all that isn’t really my thing, but the book is fascinating. Of course, thoughts of jiu-jitsu always infiltrate my mind, so when Greene talks about whether the [...]
Mar
28
Only Time (Day 39)
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Three weeks ago I found a cocoon in my basement. At first I thought it was a mummified piece of poop, I have a two year old and a dog so the chances of it being poop were pretty high, but luckily it was a cocoon. With some research, my youngest daughter has determined it [...]
Mar
27
Hit it, or Let it go (this is not about sexual conquests, Day 38)
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Today I’ve been watching the Pan Ams (thanks to Budo Video’s livestream over the internet). Good times. I noticed something while being mesmerized by the abundance of talented jiu-jitsu people at the tournament. I noticed the difference between the black belts and the purple belts. I know some of you think that’s an obvious observation, [...]
Mar
26
One Thousand Thank You’s 10-17 (Day 37)
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. . . If you haven’t been reading this blog for long you may not know that I am trying to write one thousand Thank You’s to people that have helped me throughout the years. I’m going to regularly slip these into this blog just to motivate myself to keep writing them. Thanks. Dear Nancy [...]
Mar
25
Archimedes: the Saint of Jiu-Jitsu (Day 36)
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Archimedes is the father of the lever; that basically makes him part of Brazilain Jiu-jitsu–it could make him the Saint of Jiu-Jitsu, or if not a saint, at least somebody really important. The concept of leverage is vital in jiu-jitsu. I never thought I’d ever use my crotch as a fulcrum, but it seems to [...]
Mar
24
. . . I like Satan’s attitude, at least in the poem Paradise Lost. After freeing himself from some unbreakable chains (actually God let him break them) and getting off a lake of sulphuric fire, and looking around the blackness of hell he says, “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.” I’m no [...]
Mar
23
Being Dubbed (Day 34)
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I’ve always been a fan of nicknames, not the one’s fighter’s give themselves, but the one’s that come from people you know, nicknames that come from an event or a time that you shared with a group of people–with family or friends. Fight names and nicknames sometimes are the same, but a nickname must be [...]
Mar
22
. . . I like Saulo Ribeiro. Like most jiu-jitsu people I own a copy of his book Jiu-Jitsu University. Although it is a great reference book, it is more than that, it may actually contain some secrets of the universe (*add cheesey dramatic music, dunh, dun, duhhh). There are a lot of technical jiu-jitsu [...]
