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Guest Post – Evolve MMA You may not have realized it, but habits make up approximately 40% of our daily actions. At first, that might sound bizarre, because it means that many of our daily activities and actions are completed without any conscious decision-making process. Habits influence your time at work and home and can […]

Seoi nage set up, execute, give up my back: this sequence was continual for a very long time no matter who showed me how to do it. I would always give my back up and immediately be in a bad position. The good thing with this was that my back escapes became good. I remember […]

In the scheme of things I haven’t been training long at all. I’m almost four years into my journey; however, the experiences I have had and the opportunities I have had to train and learn from so many people have helped me develop a solid base for my game. At my first and current club, […]

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while since it’s one of the most common questions I read about jiu-jitsu. Are you thinking about trying BJJ? If so, here are five tips that will help you get started! Don’t be scared. Seriously, don’t be scared. Brazilian jiu-jitsu is not a scary thing. Let […]

If you have been around a BJJ gym for longer than a week, I am positive you have heard the phrase “BJJ saves lives”. Now, don’t get me wrong; I am not trying to discredit anyone who has used jiu-jitsu as a tool to make necessary changes in their lives. However, I want to have […]

Crossfit. . . Say what you want about this sport, I have for many years been against it. That was until just recently when I met the team at Crossfit Access here in Perth. For the first time in many attempts I asked questions about the sport and got answers that made sense, not a […]

Are you on the path to achieving your dreams? If not, I guarantee that it is because you are terrified of failure. To improve your jiu-jitsu, you must put yourself in a life-or-death position (possibly a little extreme but you get my point) literally hundreds of times in your first few months as a white […]

My name is Hector Ramirez, I am about to start my journey into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The team at Open Guard have asked me to document this for you I think because I most definitely have a face built to hide behind a blog post. I have always wanted to learn the art of South […]

How Jiu-Jitsu Helps Us To Cope With Anxiety   When you have anxiety, life is weird.   No, I don’t mean the kind of anxiety that happens when your boss says he wants to see you in his office in fifteen minutes or — for us jiu-jitsu people — the kind that happens leading up […]

Growing up, I was never the athletic kid. I rode horses, but I was a pretty distinct failure in any other athletic endeavor I tried, from high school track to touching my toes for the flexibility test in gym class. If someone would’ve told my seventeen-year-old self that she’d be an athlete in seven years, […]