CJJ Training Weblog

As a martial artist it is important to take care of your health. After all, if you don’t take care of your health then you won’t be able to do what you love to do: train. Taking care of your health means many things, including preventing and taking care of injuries, preventing or [...]

To the average beginner, “going hard” means using 100% of all attributes - strength, speed, flexibility, explosiveness, etc. - in conjunction with one’s Jiu-Jitsu skill. If a submission hold, sweep, guard pass or escape isn’t working, the answer is to do it harder, with more strength and more speed; if an opponent counters [...]

Grappling is perhaps the most complete form of exercise available. In terms of synthesizing strength, balance, endurance, and flexibility, you could do nothing other than grapple every day and find yourself in phenomenal condition. Indeed, ancient Roman gymnasiums often had little more than a sandy expanse where visitors would simply grapple with one another, and [...]

Jiu-Jitsu is not just about a technical system for fighting, it’s also a form of personal expression. The creativity and improvisation that can happen in Jiu-Jitsu gives every practitioner the opportunity to become an artist. Some students consciously embrace this possibility and some do not, but everyone, whether they wish to, shares parts [...]

Most people who’ve been training for more than a few weeks understand that focusing on a certain position or technique leads to faster improvement. More importantly, though, a student shouldn’t begin a practice without a firm grasp of the fundamental concept that the purpose of attending a Jiu-Jitsu class is to learn Jiu-Jitsu, an [...]