Competition is stressful, whether you’re a brand new competitor or a well-seasoned warrior. However, it does become easier with experience and preparedness.
Knowing what to expect, having everything you might need, and feeling confident goes a long way toward not just surviving jiu-jitsu competition, but also thriving and proving yourself to be a serious contender.
Here are my top tips for surviving your next competition...
When you’ve been in the jiu-jitsu community long enough, you come to recognize that there is no single “jiu-jitsu style”… Instead, there are several different BJJ styles.
Both on and off the mat, we as humans like to differentiate ourselves via our style choices.
There are outliers, of course, but most of us fall into one of the following five “BJJ styles"...
Welcome to the second edition of the inletpalms Breakdown series, brought to you by your favorite social scientist black belt.
As I mentioned in the first edition – The Complete Armbar Breakdown – despite the impressive, and sometimes overwhelming, body of techniques in modern jiu-jitsu, there are just a handful of core principles that underlie them all. Some of these apply to Brazilian-jiu-jitsu in general, and some apply specifically to certain submissions and positions.
Let’s examine every lanky BJJ practitioner’s favorite: the triangle.
Most people dread it, some look forward to it, but regardless, it’s a necessary part of offloading all that crap from the past year – or, hey, years… COVID, am I right?. Can I still use that as an excuse? Meh. I’ll do it anyway.
While spring cleaning for your home and personal wardrobe is a no-brainer, have you thought about spring cleaning your BJJ game? If you’re spring cleaning one part of your life, why not all parts of your life?
The greatest creation of the internet was not the internet itself… it was the meme. These innocuous-looking combinations of random images and text are jam-packed with cultural nuance and cleverly crafted humor.
They have brought so much joy, worldwide, and within every discipline and social group imaginable. Yes, some are terrible, but others have the power to pull a laugh from the depths of your soul while you sit on the toilet.
So, I’ve decided to do all the heavy lifting – you’re welcome, it was quite the sacrifice – and select the best 20 BJJ Memes of all time...
