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A Healthy Approach to Increasing Your BJJ Training

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  In my early years as a blue belt, I was content with training just twice a week.  Further in, however, I started to feel a prick of jealousy seeing other folks progressing faster than me.  I tried not to compare myself, but I couldn’t help but notice that one […]

Have Gi, Will Travel: Puerto Rico 1

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It’s a warm, muggy Friday night in Old San Juan. Beautiful, curvy women tug their primped boyfriends through the cobblestone streets. The air holds pulsing rhythms of hypnotic salsa and…Taylor Swift. Not quite tropical, not quite American but in a league of its own, this is Puerto Rico. Retired Gringo […]