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Here comes the sermon. I’ve been thinking about death lately, my friends who have recently died and just life in general. I’m not feeling sad, although it is, I’m feeling more determined more than anything. The thought that keeps coming to my mind is that I don’t want to waste this life. The only thing [...]

Last night I stayed after BJJ class to work on a move that I didn’t understand too well, and after exploring the move over and over again, one of my purple belts and I finally got a better understanding of it. Some people may think that the little details of a technique are minutia, trivial [...]

Momentum is pretty important in both life and jiu-jitsu, with momentum you can move things and people. You can move both the stubborn and the stagnant. Momentum is a powerful force; it’s something we can ride; it’s a Chinese dragon that can take us anywhere. Momentum is something we create both on the mat and [...]

The thing about a hectic life and being extremely busy is that those things don’t necessarily mean that you’re moving towards success. The most effective techniques in jiu-jitsu are those that are simple, those techniques with the least amount of parts, and it makes me think that the same can be said for a succesful [...]

Lately, I’ve been carrying around a jiu-jitsu notebook. I’ve been using it to help me breakdown and understand the minute details of some of the techniques that I’ve been teaching. I’m mentioning it here because so far it has proven to be very valuable. Once when I was in the Boy Scouts, one of the [...]

This is a little peice from the book I’m working on now, the chapter is called “Conquer I.” It’s important to understand what we are actually battling in life and in jiu-jitsu and ultimately the struggle is internal, we try to conquer I. Rastafarians use the pronoun I to refer to the self, not “me” [...]

I’ve got a hunk of old mat sitting in my living room, it’s probably 5×5 feet; it’s been here for a couple of days. I walk on it with bare feet and I like it. It reminds me of jiu-jitsu. I sit on it and watch the cooking channel or House Hunters. I practice shrimping [...]

Why do we want to conquer things, defeat them, beat them, to dominate? It is my thought that what we really want to do is to conquer ourselves, to conquer I. Jiu-jitsu is the perfect art to help us conquer ourselves, to conquer our fears and anger and ego. On the mat it is only [...]

Once again life’s crazy and as a result the blog is taking a hit, my apologies. I use this blog as a way to get my thinking together. It’s a chance to also solidify the hodge-podge of thought that exists in my brain. Last week, Professor Sauer gave a seminar in Park City; I couldn’t [...]

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