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How to Break Through the Blue Belt Plateau
When you first start BJJ, it’s easy to get better. You learn new moves and improve after every class. But just showing up to class does not work forever. From my experience, most people hit a wall sometime as a blue belt. They stop improving and it is often the reason why people quit at
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Calendar time is not mat time
For some reason BJJ practitioners love to obsess over how much time they have spent at a given belt and about how much time it takes to earn each belt. Using a calendar to assess these things is easy, but how much sense does it really make? Just because two people have been training for
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The 4 Stages of Athletic Development in BJJ
Everyone who starts BJJ (or any other sport) will go through the four stages. Knowing about them will make your journey as an athlete easier. It will give you some context of what you are going through and it will give you an idea of what you should focus on. If you are a coach,
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How to Tie Your Belt
When you are just starting out in BJJ, it can be challenging to figure out how to tie your belt. Use this guide to make sure that you are not lost in your first BJJ class. If you don’t remember how to tie your belt, don’t worry! Our coaches and members are always happy to
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The Belts of BJJ
White Belt In the beginning, focus on the basic positions of BJJ and learn how they are connected. In the beginning, sparring can be very confusing, it helps if you can recognize where you are and where you want to go to. Once you know the positions, learn the techniques from the fundamentals curriculum. Sparring