Today’s article is a guest post by Joshua Burgess, a new white belt. Communication is the fundamental way we humans interact with each other in meaningful ways. We express our thoughts, feeling, needs and wants through both verbal and nonverbal cues. When we reduce our communication, we are reducing the effectiveness of the very thing we […]
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Women in BJJ Guest Post: I’m Not Sorry
Moderator’s note: I am on vacation in America for the summer. I’ll be in Washington until July 7, and then I’ll be in Virginia! While this article is not specifically about jiu jitsu, after I read it I immediately saw the implications for women in jiu jitsu. How many new women have apologized for having […]
BJJ: Flossie Gets Her Blue Belt!
Jiu Jiu’s note: This was sent to me in January by Flossie. It got buried and I just uncovered it. As you may remember, Flossie wrote an article about being a much older woman doing jiu jitsu. Her story is quite inspiring, and I hope you continue to be inspired! Last week I cried about […]
Free culture and BJJ
Today’s guest post is by Piotr Konieczny, a regular contributor to Wikipedia, and a free culture enthusiast! He does not do jiu jitsu, but had a wonderful idea of how we could help promote jiu jitsu much better online . I was actually really shocked to find the lack of info about women in BJJ on […]
BJJ Women: Pros and Cons of Dating a Teammate
Today’s article is a guest post by Christine, a reader I met up with in Seoul! She’s a blue belt in BJJ, and I’m so glad I got to meet her. A huge thank you for her thoughtful post on this very interesting subject! While visiting South Korea recently, I met a new friend, one […]
BJJ Women: Rectifying the “Gentle Art” with Competition
Today’s article is a guest post by Chelsea Bainbridge-Donner, the woman behind of one of my favorite Jiu Jitsu blogs, leaahh.com. Jiu Jiu invited me to write a post, and I’ve been really wishy-washy about what I want to write about– which means it just hasn’t gotten done. But she gave me some things that […]
BJJ outreach: Vector Jiu Jitsu
This guest post is by Beth Thrasher, of Vector Jiu Jitsu, a nonprofit for at risk kids in Mississippi. A few weeks ago, a 15 year old girl was shot dead hundreds of yards away from a Vector Jiu-Jitsu practice. The non-profit youth development program was holding class on one side of the Wingfield High School […]
BJJ and Women: How to Drive Women Away
JiuJiu’s Note: Charles posted this in a Women’s Grappling group on Facebook and on his BJJ blog. I thought this was a really strong story and asked if I could repost it here, in hopes that it would spark good discussion. He graciously agreed to let me post it in its entirety. The original article […]
BJJ: Starting Jiu Jitsu Late in Life
JiuJiu’s note: This was written by Flossie, an older woman in BJJ. It serves as a nice companion piece to “To the Fat Person Googling Jiu Jitsu.” Along with the question of “Am I too fat to do Jiu Jitsu?” I very often see people ask “Am I too old to do Jiu Jitsu?” I […]
BJJ and women: Unexpected Lessons from the Martial Arts
JiuJiu’s Note: Jenn from MAMA emailed me this article, and I wanted to support her! Attention all female martial artists! I am working on a collection of stories about women who train. The theme is “Unexpected lessons from the martial arts”, so I am specifically looking for things that are slightly outside the “typical” experiences […]