The more I think about this idea, the cooler it gets to me. I know sometimes people worry that they’re not keeping up with their teammates, that they might get stuck “forever” at white belt or blue belt, that they’re just not progressing, or that they’re a sucky blue belt. To those people, I say […]
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BJJ Blogs: Teasing Out Content
Some subject lend themselves nicely to one single article. Others, to a series of articles. It’s helpful to identify which are which. For example, the article I wrote about BJJ note taking – not something I am interested in writing about extensively. Some, such as my article about BJJ Inferiority Complex could have been more than […]
BJJ Blogging: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Jiu Jiu’s note: Continuing my So You Want to Start a BJJ Blog series, this week I have a guest writer, Brendan Hufford from GiReviews.Net who kindly wrote about an aspect of BJJ blogging that I knew zero about. What’s an SEO? Every BJJ blogger wants people to read what they write, but most BJJ bloggers know nothing […]
Taking notes in BJJ
I’ve been taking notes on jiu jitsu now for nearly a year, and in that time I have learned several valuable points that has helped improve my note taking in class. Some of this may be VERY OBVIOUS, but for me, it was a huge learning process. I wanted to share my 7 tips about […]
Korean Black Belts: Chang-guk Jeong and Duck-Young Jang
Note: Special thanks to the John Frankl Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Competition Team for permission to post this! Here’s a chance to meet black belts from my neck of the woods! This article was originally on their Facebook page, the English has been altered. Today’s black belts are Chang-guk Jeong from Shichon Gym and Duck-Young Jang […]
Learning from Watching BJJ Sparring
In our TESOL courses, we train teachers how to focus their students during listening. Specifically, we talk about listening for gist or listening for details. When listening for gist you are listening for an overall understanding, such as the general idea/topic, versus for key details or minutia. It is extremely difficult for students to do […]
BJJ: How do YOU treat the brand-newbies?
We often get new people in our school. When I see new people, in general the first thing I do is greet them, ask their name, promptly forget their name, ask how long they’ve been doing BJJ, etc. Okay, the forgetting the name is totally not on purpose. If there was no time in class, […]
BJJ Black Belt Blogs
Continuing my So You Want to Start a BJJ Blog series. As with women BJJ bloggers, the black belt BJJ blogger has the potential for a built in audience. I know I am more likely to want to hear what other women in the sport have to say, seeing as how I am part of […]
So you want to start a BJJ blog
I’ve had two people ask me this in the past month, so I thought I’d gather my thoughts about what I’ve learned in the past 2 years of maintaining a BJJ blog. I’ll also share some mistakes I made along the way – hopefully you will find this useful! Ah you may also find this […]
Download Jiu Jitsu Style app FREE
Sweet! Just got a heads up from Georgette that Jiu Jitsu Style magazine is offering their app free! You can read their description here: JIU JITSU STYLE APP which includes links for both iTunes and Android. The normal price: £14.99 for six digital issues, or £2.99 for one. This promo allows you to download one issue free. […]