I know this is probably a strange way to lead off on an academic-adjacent blog post, but have you been to an airport bathroom lately? If so, you may or may not have noticed that many of them have a touch screen when you exit the bathroom with “emoji’s” on it: you’re asked to rate your bathroom experience, by pressing one of the five smiley/frowny faces. Presumably, the airport staff analyze the data collected, and attempt to improve your bathroom experiences in the future. No

This is actually a question I’ve never been asked in all the years I’ve been teaching BJJ. Overall I think this is a good thing, as it...

When Amanda and I opened our school in the good ‘ol pre-disaster era, back in ‘17, we decided to try out a novel, non-traditional...

This is a question that I see a lot when browsing BJJ topics on forums, blog articles, facebook etc, yet it’s a question I don’t think...

OK, so, this title is a little bit inaccurate, because you probably know by now that you cannot do BJJ alone, and that you HAVE to be...

I get this question a lot, but it’s fairly rare that anybody follows my advice to the T. I wish I could somehow be more inspiring, and to...

The BJJ belt ranking system is not a uniform system. Every BJJ instructor/academy/affiliation etc, does them completely different from...

I think that this is one of the biggest misconceptions out there right now for many jiujiteiros, especially those who are just hobbyist...

BJJ competition, in my opinion, is an important part of the BJJ journey. I think it’s rare that you’ll meet a black belt who has NEVER...