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Writing a book is not fun. Well, I guess the writing part is fun, but the editing and putting it together really sucks, but I’m trying to be Buddhist about it, well more like Taoist, you know “enjoying the work, “ but it’s hard convincing myself to work through the muck. But like jiu-jitsu, sometimes [...]

The “welcome mat” at West Side is 18ft x 40ft, maybe the biggest welcome mat in the world. That’s how I see our academy. I have people email me pretty frequently about training at the academy while they’re in town, and I’ve always invited them with open arms. I think a lot of schools do [...]

Man, I must be getting old, today I wore a collared shirt under my gi. Yep, I forgot to take it off and I didn’t realize it until half way through my adult class. No one even said anything, no parent, no kid, no one in my adult class. Usually the kids will say something [...]

A few years ago I wrote a not-so-flattering post on Grapple Socks, partly because I thought they were hideous, but mostly because one of my students wore, and still wears them to class. I’m embarrassed for him, but he doesn’t seem to be (Yes Jeff, I’m talking about you). Anyway, two years after that post [...]

One of the hardest things about running your own business is to continually look at it with new eyes, to constantly see how one could improve the business. There are a lot of components that make up a jiu-jitsu school, and one of them is defining what exactly your school is, and what exactly it [...]

. . All I know is my jiu-jitsu would be unbeatable if I could do this, but I think the best way to get better at jiu-jitsu is to do jiu-jitsu. I must admit I could get in and out of some pretty cool jiu-jitsu positions if I had this dude’s flexibility–it’s freaky. I’m sure [...]

Been slacking a little bit on the blog, my apologies. This week’s been really cool. We had a visitor from Washington, D.C.,Songura “Kini” Cole, who was very friendly and personable and we enjoyed having him at the school. We also had Walt Bayless black belt, Justin Ellison, also conduct a no-gi seminar in Logan, and [...]

I’ve been reading a book about yoga; it’s actually about a yogi named Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. It’s pretty interesting. There is a section of the book where the author describes the stages of yoga practice and how it changes for the stages of one’s life. The idea of “stages” got me thinking about jiu-jitsu, at [...]

It’s funny how effective the headlock is (until you learn how to counter it, and sometimes the headlock works as a control and a brain-squeezer even if you know how to escape or neutralize it). This is actually an ode to the mighty headlock, used by hundreds of thousands adolescent boys throughout the world to [...]

My little dog, Lovey, a Staffordshire bull terrier that I recently rescued, has dreams. You know, the rabbit chasing kind, but I don’t think she’s chasing rabbits. Last night for example, she was growling and howling (real howling, like a wolf) in her sleep. I wonder if she was dreaming about chasing deer in an [...]

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