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The True Advantage Of Rolling With Lower Belts: Becoming Innovative
Ever had a training session where there weren’t any higher belts present, but just a couple of students at your belt ...
How Do You Deal With Being Stuck At White Belt For A Long Time?
As an active blogger in the jiu-jitsu community, I often get interesting questions about my grappling experience. I ...
Rank Is Not An Indicator Of How Much Respect A Practitioner Deserves
I’ve written it many times, and I’m going to reiterate: while your belt may mean something to you, and mine means som...
The Case Against Belts: Do we even need them?
Belts in martial arts and especially BJJ are a touchy subject. It seems pretty common that you’ll see some article o...
Hemp Belt
A few issues ago, we did a review of Flow Kimonos’ Hemp Gi. Now we’re bringing you a review of their line of hemp bel...
Let Me Help You Understand Your Rank: White To Brown Belt
There are a lot of grey areas in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. This is to be expected. Every combative discipline, based upon ...
Why Upper Belts Shouldn’t Make Excuses When They Tap To Lower Belts
I was perusing my Facebook newsfeed this morning and I came across something very interesting. A fairly well-known c...
Upper Belt Promotions in BJJ
By William F. Murphy, Ph.D.,IBJJF Black Belt 3rd Degree, USJA San Dan Judo Promotions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are tric...
Should Nogi only Guys Receive Belts?
In Jiu-Jitsu we have 3 general camps of thought. The first is the old school mentality that Jiu-Jitsu should always b...
Jiujitsu: Stripes, Belts, Gi (nogi)… what does it all mean?!
It’s 2015, time to wipe off the 2014 slumps doldrums or whatever and GET IT! And if you were amazing in 2014, that’s ...