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What’s the difference between a scholar and a master? Would you rather be a master of jiu-jitsu or a scholar of jiu-jitsu? Can you be both? I think the difference between a master and a scholar is the difference between action and inaction, between being and knowing. I want to have knowledge of jiu-jitsu, but [...]

Today I’ve been thinking about Kevlar, you know the bullet-proof material. I‘ve been thinking about how jiu-jitsu is like Kevlar. Every year you do jiu-jitsu that’s like a layer of material, and the more years you put in, the more layers you have, and pretty soon all those layers become impenetrable. If you want to [...]

The academy houses some of the great people of the world, at least that’s what it feels like at West Side, and I’m sure whatever school you belong to, you feel the same way. We train with some awesome people; we just do. What I like about jiu-jitsu people is that they encompass a great [...]

Hiking is not my favorite thing to do, but today I went with my kids and it was fun. We walked a trail for a while until we saw a wonderful, little waterfall. We took off our shoes and splashed around for a little while—Mother Nature makes some pretty cool playgrounds. While we walked I [...]

I’m really trying to keep up with writing every day, sometimes my schedule won’t allow it, but I’ve decided to change my schedule and not my writing. It comes down to the idea of creating our own world. I believe in that idea. We need to be brave and disciplined enough to live a happy [...]

This afternoon I got a phone call from Blake Fluhart (rancher, poet, warrior, West Side phenom). He is in New York training with Marcelo Garcia. After I got off the phone with him I thought, lucky bastard, but then I realized that Blake’s not lucky. Luck is something that happens to you; Blake made this [...]

Yesterday, I went to Gramercy Elementary School to do a demonstration for about fifty kids in an after school program. I like kids, even when they’re bouncing off the walls and acting like they’re six, which some of them were. The thing about kids and jiu-jitsu is that kids see martial arts as secret knowledge. [...]

I was talking to one of my students the other day about the feeling you get when things start to come together on the mat. When the fog lifts and the chaos slows down enough to actually see what’s going on. When we can discern, when we can recognize what’s happening we can see possible [...]

Last night I went to a local reggae concert called Shamrocks and Dreadlocks. It was fun, good music, and a Guiness or two. I was reminded of the power of music and how rhythm affects us. The movement in our jiu-jitsu definitely has its own rhythm, but more importantly that rhythm is specific to the [...]

. . . I wrote the other day about Super Sloth–going extremely slow when rolling, and Keith from the Tap Often Blog commented, “I’m new to this concept – does this mean there’s no place for explosive movement? (I’m thinking for sweeps here, mostly).” I’ve been thinking about this question since I read it. It’s [...]

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