Recently, I started re-reading Mindset by Carol Dweck. It’s one of my favorite books in the world, and I consider it to be required reading for anyone who is serious about excelling in anything. In fact, I would even rank it significantly above the Inner Game of Tennis, which is a damn fine book as …
Category: Reflection
My personal thoughts about various subjects related to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
Lesson learned from playing on the bad side
Over the last few days, I’ve been making a conscious effort to drill and play half guard on my bad side. As a result, I’ve had a revelation about the mechanics of the tilt. I realized that there was a way to magnify the force generated in the sweep. One that I simply hadn’t been …
The curse of triangle orthodoxy
Not that many years ago, the most common methodology for finishing the triangle required that you lift your hips, pass the arm across, and pull down on the head. It was gospel. Hell, you can even say that it was orthodoxy. If you did it any other way, you were dead wrong. But hidden in …
Why marriages fail like white belts attempting flying omoplatas
The other day, in a rare moment, yours truly chanced upon an article on the interwebz that actually succeeded in grabbing my attention with just the headline. Yup, it was good. The topic was all about the silent marriage killer. That was the hook, and I bit at it like a large mouth bass in …
The best way to show someone nothing
Since its inception, I’ve made radical changes to the micro adjustments course. The last being the restriction of content to just 15 lessons at any one time. It’s not something that went down without some blowback either. In fact, here’s an example: “Noooooooooooo! Not the bow-and-arrow technique!!!!!!!!!! Is there really no way we can have …