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The Way of Fluid BJJ with Karel “Silver Fox” Pravec
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water i...
How To Challenge Yourself With Lower Belts
In some bjj gyms there are many senior belts that can provide challenging training for experienced bjj students. But ...
Off the Mat with a BJJ Black Belt: Burak Deger Biçer
“It makes you face your fears and it taught me that I was only afraid of things I didn’t know and because of JJ I sto...
Break it down: Knee Bar w/ Dean Lister
Keeping true to form here’s another great technique for Nogi (may mayhem)! Now I realize they’re in the gi for this v...
What We Wish Adults Knew: The Kids POV
So I’ve been thinking, and watching kids as they perform various activities such as marching band, track and field, b...
Putting In Your Time – How Much Do We Really Need?
I have read a lot of articles/forum posts related to people asking “What do I need to do to get better at Jiu-Jitsu?”...
How to Teach as a Lower Belt
At Jiu Jitsu Times, reader questions help us give back to the jiu jitsu community by giving us the opportunity to sha...
Should You Give Unsolicited Advice to Your Training Partner?
We have all rolled with people who have more experience than us. They tap us out or dominate us with position, and th...
The Four Stages for Learning Jiu-jitsu
There is a model for learning any skill that we can apply to learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu. This model allows us to s...
To Quit Jiu-jitsu Or Not?
Several years back, I was talking with a black belt who was forty years old or older. He owned an academy and had a n...
A Conversation with Serra BJJ’s Dan Astarita
A few weeks ago, I came into the gym and saw an unfamiliar face. After asking around I found out that the unfamiliar...
Off the Mat with a BJJ Black Belt: Albert “Bert” Hughes
This week Off the Mat with a BJJ Black Belt features Albert Hughes who owns a successful jiu-jitsu school Genesis Jiu...