Coolest Review Ever!!!

I just happened to check on my book, Tapmonster, this morning at Barnes and Noble and I saw the coolest review that anyone has ever written for one of my books. It absolutely blew me away! I appreciate every good review that I have ever received, but this one was special. Here it is: BUY [...]

Times Up – Back to Academia

Check out my books, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Grappling  and Grappling for Newbies on Amazon.com! The new semester begins next Monday. All week I have been attending college wide, departmental and discipline related meetings and preparing my curriculum for my students. My BJJ lifestyle of the summer has already been affected. Yes, I am ready to teach and [...]

2nd Stripe Blue and Extra Sensory Perception

Check out my books, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Grappling  and Grappling for Newbies on Amazon.com! Class started off as usual today. We were going through drills (from side control) and then our Prof. called for a break and told us, “Get water guys!” As we headed off in different directions he went up to the front counter and [...]

Summer of Jiu-Jitsu – (Now that’s what’s up!)

Check out my other blog: Psychology of Jiu-Jitsu From mid-January through through April I was able to attend one class per week (plus two extra during spring break). So I racked up 16 visits in four months. I had a very busy schedule this semester (lecturing, meetings, committees, writing, research, etc.,) but my goal was to [...]

Time to switch the style up!

Check out my other blog: Psychology of Jiu-Jitsu Before I talk about the training session, first let me gush about my new place. I finally made it to my new BJJ home last Friday and I made it official. I joined JaxBJJ. I really like this place. I started visiting it last month and was able [...]

Pulling Guard and Guard Passing

Today it was just three of us in the morning session. I worked with Nathan (Brown belt) and Steven (White belt, 4 stripes). Since Steven is preparing for a competition we worked on pulling and maintaining guard. Hilarity ensued as Nathan tried to have us jump guard. Both of us are 200+ so neither of [...]

Insights and Catching up with my posts….

Check out Jiujitsu365′s new book, Grappling for Newbies on Amazon.com! Friday’s Class (12th March) – I was 10 minutes late to class this day. But it didn’t matter because Carlos (brown belt 1 stripe) was leading everyone through one of his 35 minute warmups. On this day we worked on halfguard. I rolled with Carlos at the [...]

Interesting Guidelines to Purple Belt

Check out my grappling books on Amazon: Tapmonster: Ideas about Grappling for BJJ and Submission Wrestlers, Grappling for Newbies, 20 Ways to Increase Grappling Skills off the Mat, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Grappling and much more. I know that many people who read this blog are blue belts or are close to becoming one. I happened to bump into the [...]

Promotions, New Gi and New Mental Approach

First things first: Congratulations to Professor James Smiley on his promotion to Black Belt! I am a little late, but I finally had a chance to say congratulations on Friday when I went to train. Also, congratulations to Art (promotion to Blue), who is a training fanatic and who I doubt will remain a blue [...]

First night back as Blue: Threats and Neck Cranks

Bear with me everyone as I process this experience (Blue belt promo) for my memories later on. Tuesday was my first night back since the belt change. Admittedly, I felt a little different. I don’t know how though. Of course there were congratulations when I walked in and throughout class but there was also something [...]