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Mental Toughness is Transferrable
A few days ago I checked off one of the items on my lifelist by completing a 30 mile mountain ultramarathon (BC’s ‘Kn...
A Mean Option When Your Opponent is Stalling in BJJ Sidemount
Have you ever trained BJJ with anyone who’s so desperate not to tap out that all they do is stall?
Someone who’s whol...
New T-Shirts: Keep Calm and Grapple On
We just released these brand new shirts. I had fun looking into the history of the classic ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ ...
How To Use Moves You Already Know to Do Advanced Techniques
We’ve just launched the latest Grapplearts BJJ instructional mobile app with my friend Brandon ‘Wolverine’ Mullins.
I...
Historic Carlson Gracie Academy to reopen in Copacabana
Turns out the goodbye was only a so long. After a farewell ceremony with the presence of Carlson Gracie Jr., last Aug...
Podcast EP30: BJJ Q&A – Popular Reader Questions Answered
I recently did the second-ever Grapplearts Radio Q&A format podcast. In it I answered questions from my newslett...
“Jiu-Jitsu saved my life,” says American airman who stopped gunman on French train
Spencer Stone, the American Airman who alongside three other men stopped a gunman in a high-speed train between Holla...
How to Come Up With New Jiu-Jitsu Techniques (and Succeed at Online Dating Too)
The key to having great ideas is to have LOTS of ideas. Dream them up, test them out, and discard the bad ideas quic...
Taking Responsibility for Your Own BJJ Training
A Guest Article by Kaeli Sweigard
When you choose your actions, you choose your consequences.
I used to work with “a...
How to Tape Your Fingers for BJJ
Some BJJ players – including myself – train and compete with their hands au naturel.
But BJJ can be rough on the hand...
Bodybuilding, Jiu-Jitsu, and My Quest to Make 240 lbs with Abs…
In my late twenties I went through a phase that most young men go through – I wanted to get big. Maybe not as big as...
Black Belt Blindness, And Other Dangers….
A black belt is just a 2 inch wide piece of cloth, not a license to pontificate upon matters about which you are utt...