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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, […]

Its hard to explain Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to someone who has never trained, competed or even been to an event. The feelings and raw emotion that one goes through, the feeling of being stripped back of all securities that a person has and uses to shield their inner self from the outside world. I have […]