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Is ‘Creonte’ Culture Becoming Extinct?
Is “Creonte” BJJ culture slowly becoming extinct? As the art and sport of BJJ spread throughout the world, the cultur...
Blind Loyalty: What I Wish I had Known Sooner And Why I Switched Teams
Like many athletes who have found their way to BJJ, I didn’t start there. I saw a sign for “Cardio Kickboxing” classe...
Sorting Through The BJJ Baloney
by Josh Stockman The longer I train jiu-jitsu, the deeper I fall in love with its intricacies and its dedicated pract...
Loyalty In Jiu-Jitsu
Loyalty is a funny thing. Because of a recent video in which Rickson Gracie talks about student loyalty, there has be...
Are You Loyal To Your Jiu-Jitsu School?
Now, before the Jiu-jitsu Times readers crash the web servers with comments about how they either don’t care about an...
Tom DeBlass and Garry Tonon on Loyalty
Professor Tom DeBlass has spoken to Jiu Jitsu Times in the past on the topic of loyalty. Check out his previous thou...
Loyalty Is a Two Way Street with Professor Tom DeBlass
The late Jiu Jitsu Master Carlson Gracie is credited with first using the term “creonte” which he coined as a label f...
Creonte: Is This Still a Thing?
The popular belief is that this term comes from Carlson Gracie to describe a traitor. Supposedly, he took the term fr...
Jiu-Jitsu’s an Inheritance Learned at Home, Passed from Parents to Kids
Practicing a safe and healthy martial art like Jiu-Jitsu is a major help in bringing up your brood. As GRACIEMAG.com ...
Sign Your Kids up for Jiu-Jitsu in 2013, and They Shall Never Be Alone
How about adding “give Jiu-Jitsu a chance” to your New Year’s resolutions? C’mon, try it out. At a good gentle-art sc...
Thiago Tavares cuts red tape and teaches lesson number 1 in getting to UFC
A Jiu-Jitsu black belt and UFC star, Thiago Tavares is back to attacking on all fronts—as an event promoter. Tomorrow...