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I am a male blue belt, 5’10” and 165lbs. I’m not small, but I’m also not the largest person in my gym. I try to be a good training partner, and I want to keep myself safe during training too.
I’m sure you’ve ...
Posted on March 08, 2017
Valerie Worthington
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Grappling trends come and go, and new techniques pop up every season. When I started training, everyone was trying to figure out x-guard and arm drags. Now it is leglocks and heel hooks. Eventually, the best elements...
Posted on March 07, 2017
Matt Kirtley
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Five years ago, I started Inverted Gear. It seems like yesterday I was ordering polybags and halfsheet labels on Amazon so I could ship the first batch of panda gis from my mom’s basement. A lot has changed since the...
Posted on March 02, 2017
Nelson Puentes
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In Meet the Pandas, we introduce the many members of Panda Nation to the BJJ world. Previously, we took a closer look at Hillary Witt, mastermind of the Inverted Gear designs and daily operations. In this episode, we...
Posted on March 01, 2017
Daniel Bertina
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Jason C. Brown is back with a new episode of Chalk Talk. In this installment, he talks about what motor learning has to say about working your off-side into your Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu drilling routine. Watch the video t...
Posted on March 01, 2017
Jason C Brown
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Around 2010 or so, the training fad of the day was “mind maps,” which were essentially decision trees for jiu-jitsu positions in part popularized by the flowchart in Eddie Bravo’s Mastering the Rubber Guard and champ...
Posted on February 28, 2017
Marshal Carper
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I got to visit a lot of schools over the last 10 years. While every school is different, I feel they all tend to fall into three categories: traditional, formal, and informal. Before I go into my criteria for these c...
Posted on February 23, 2017
Nelson Puentes
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Question: I am a brown belt, and I love jiu-jitsu. I am in it for the long haul—there is no question about that—but sometimes I find myself feeling ambivalent. I look at some of my teammates, particularly ones who ha...
Posted on February 22, 2017
Valerie Worthington
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Over my career as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor, I have decided on a set of self-imposed rules for how I run classes and how I manage my relationship with students. If you’re not an instructor, you might slowly be...
Posted on February 21, 2017
Matt Kirtley
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I am getting close to my 10 year anniversary with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Over the last year, I finally changed my mindset of how I look at my training, and started to think about longevity. I remember being a twenty-ye...
Posted on February 16, 2017
Nelson Puentes
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Several years ago, I was warming up at an open mat. I was a black belt at the time, and the person nearest me was a large male blue belt, maybe 220lbs. I asked him if he would like to pair up, and he responded by loo...
Posted on February 15, 2017
Valerie Worthington
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Last year, Nelson, Hillary and I started filming videos to reply to questions on reddit's weekly White Belt Wednesday discussion. Since then, we have filmed 80 videos, and we are set to break 100 in no time. Here are...
Posted on February 14, 2017
Matt Kirtley
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