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Ask DeBlass: Keeping your weight off this new year on the mats
Today is not New Years Day. Today is not Monday. Today is not your birthday. Today is the day you take control. You...
Ask DeBlass: Welcoming the New White Belt with Kindness
Whether readily admitted or not, the goal for every practitioner is at some time the black belt. In the quest for th...
Ask DeBlass: The Most Important Moment in Your Competitive Life is Now
As a member of a very elite group in the sport of BJJ, the high-level, black belt competitor, Professor DeBlass under...
Roger Gracie’s Newest Black Belt Gives Touching Speech at Promotion Ceremony
BJJ Legend Roger Gracie’s newest black belt Matthew Feely gave a very poignant and inspiring speech about the importa...
How To Escape Side Control Against A 300lbs Wrestler
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5 Things Coworkers Assume When You Tell Them You Compete in Jiu-Jitsu
The difference between your Jiu-Jitsu family and your coworkers is that you got to choose your Jiu-Jitsu family while...
Take Icing Your Knees to the Next Level with HyperIce
The years have not been kind to my knees. When I in high school, I would go to my local recreation center to play pic...
Ask DeBlass: What Do I Do When My Motivation Is Gone?
In today’s “Ask DeBlass”, Professor DeBlass addresses the age old and always popular topic of how to get motivated an...
10 Items For Your BJJ Bucket List
Most people I know have a bucket list of things they want to do before they die. Travel destinations, career goals, f...
How Fabricio Galvao Got A Black Belt In Jiu-Jitsu Despite Having Down’s Syndrome
A determined person can overcome seemingly impossible obstacles and this is clearly the case with Fabricio Galvao of ...
Podcast: 18-Year Old 2015 NoGi Pans Double Gold Purple Belt Champ Amanda Leve
We first learned of Amanda Leve from viral Youtube videos of her choking out teenage boys in tournaments. Amanda, an ...
When We Stop Teaching Jiu-Jitsu and let it Teach Us
A couple of years ago I had the chance to witness one of the most influential moments of my life while at a Jiu-Jitsu...