Can Jiu-Jitsu Help With Mental Illness? According To One Expert, The...
When you live with mental illness, your greatest opponent on the mat isn’t the person you’re rolling with. Instead, you find yourself grappling with...
10 Items For Your BJJ Bucket List
Most people I know have a bucket list of things they want to do before they die. Travel destinations, career goals, family and relationship...
3 Lies About Jiu-Jitsu
In Jiu-Jitsu we learn a lot from our coaches and teammates. I have learned so much on the mats, not just about Jiu-Jitsu, but...
Give A White Belt Your Back
We have all seen those new white belts who walk through the door and are confident and ready to change their lives . ....
5 Things Coworkers Assume When You Tell Them You Compete in...
The difference between your Jiu-Jitsu family and your coworkers is that you got to choose your Jiu-Jitsu family while your coworkers are just strangers...
The Struggle of Starting Jiu Jitsu as an Adult
At Jiu Jitsu Times, reader questions allow us to really explore issues and questions that the community has. We recently got the following question:
“I...
5 Ways For White Belts to Measure Their Progress
The first six months of training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu can be both rewarding and frustrating. The rewarding aspects of training include getting fit, meeting...
Jiu-Jitsu Depression
Jiu-jitsu always makes us feel great, right? While this may be true to an extent, we all have some bad days in the academy.
Many...
10 Reasons to Start Training Jiu Jitsu in the New Year
With the New Year just around the corner, many of us are setting our goals and resolutions for 2015. For many it will be...
3 Reasons To Train At A Smaller Academy.
Where do you train? I hear many people saying they could train with a team like Atos in San Diego or other similar academies....