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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: May 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Monday, May 26, 2014. Mental preparation for competition: building realistic confidence. We humans tend to have pretty high opinions of ourselves. In studies of social psychology, most individuals rate themselves as above average in just about every realm. Likewise, we rate ourselves higher than others rate us. It is mathematically impossible for so many of us to actually be. It is likely that I believe that I am a better at my job than I actually ...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: May 2015
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Monday, May 25, 2015. The unwritten rules of jiu jitsu etiquette: 5 things I wish I knew as a white belt. There are myriad explicit rule sets governing jiu jitsu. Competition organizations have their own sets of published rules (the IBJJF rule book is 44 pages long! Here are the unwritten rules of jiu jitsu that I wish I had known when I was a white belt:. Do not ask black belts to roll. Should be the one to ask you. Jiu jitsu is magnetic. Even...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: November 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Surviving my first MMA fight. It took me a long time to find an opponent. I wanted to fight locally, in one of the Bull City Brawl events, but was having no luck finding someone to fight. So when this fight came up, even though it was 6 hours away, I jumped at the chance. Training camp was 50% painful, 25% hungry, miserable, carb-deprived, and 25% adrenaline rush. I got beat up a lot:. It was an unexpected rush. Until I ...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: January 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Monday, January 20, 2014. Pre-self defense.using my words and knowing when to act rude. I feel confident in my ability to hold my own in a physical confrontation. I have purple belt level self defense skills. Physically, I am strong as shit from grappling grown men on a daily basis. And I have intstincts to react violently when I think someone is trying to hurt me. Luckily, I turned out to be in no physical danger from this interaction. But as ...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: Recruiting and retaining women in jiu jitsu
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Friday, March 27, 2015. Recruiting and retaining women in jiu jitsu. What do jiu jitsu women want? The question of "what do women want" has puzzled men since about the time they became bipeds. And it's never had an easy answer. We women are a complex, heterogeneous lot, difficult to lump together in broad, blanket statements. But what I am interested in here is "what do women want in a jiu jitsu school? Not if you consider the missing 30% lost reve...
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The Engineer and the Artist | Dirty White Belt: A BJJ Blog
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Dirty White Belt: A BJJ Blog. July 31, 2015. The Engineer and the Artist. In life and in jiujitsu, we have different needs at different stages on the journey. While I was in New York competing, I had the chance to spend a week training at Unity Jiujitsu. Part of this was to get ready for the tournament, since Unity has excellent tough, technical training. Another reason had a bit of a more long-term view to it. Do things, can only help you. I’d taken my private from Murilo when he came to North Car...
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What Makes a Good Tournament? | Dirty White Belt: A BJJ Blog
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Dirty White Belt: A BJJ Blog. August 13, 2015. What Makes a Good Tournament? The experience you get from standing across from another combat athlete who is going to try assiduously to choke you or bend your joints the wrong way is hard to replicate. A tournament can either be a winning experience or a learning experience, or ideally both. Apart from the matches themselves, though, whether you have a good time at an event really depends heavily on how the tournament is run. This is consistently the first ...
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There is no such thing as spider guard | Dirty White Belt: A BJJ Blog
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Dirty White Belt: A BJJ Blog. July 14, 2015. There is no such thing as spider guard. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. –Raymond Chandler. A new guard comes out every week. It’s remarkable how, after billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of human grappling, completely unforeseen positions somehow crop up every time there are DVDs to be sold. There is no such thing as spider guard. Many times, fancy terminology for allegedly in...
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