“Go get ’em Waylon!” Hearing you decades later “Was a good idea!” I was not quite two years old when Waylon Live was recorded. I was four years old when it was released. I wasContinue reading
Three Years Into BJJ
Three years. I haven’t gone anywhere. I’m still training. But there’s a weird thing about BJJ that I didn’t experience with things like running and rugby. It’s a very personal experience. Super personal. It becomesContinue reading
Seth Godin’s Solo Marathon
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s blog for several years. It’s one of the few things I read on an almost daily basis. Today’s post gave me a little bit of an opportunity for a backContinue reading
Just Another Phase of Being Free
If you aren’t listening to the Turnpike Troubadours, you ain’t livn’ right.
Your Composure Is Waiting For You
I bought The Daily Stoic: 365 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living for myself as a New Year’s present and for, you know, education. I’m really enjoying reading it because I seeContinue reading
Agile Manifesto For BJJ
I’m working on a longer post about applying agile methodologies to BJJ training, but I thought it would be kind of cool to take the Agile Manifesto For Software Development and tweak it a littleContinue reading
Getting My BJJ Sprints Fired Up Again
I was talking with one of my teammates last night and found out she’s a software engineer. I asked if she used Jira at work and told her about using it to run sprints forContinue reading
How Far We’ve Fallen – 1987 CMA Awards
I’ve probably watched this about 100 times on VHS. Thankfully somebody posted it to YouTube. Just for some perspective, the nominees for male vocalist of the year were: George Jones George Strait Randy Travis RickyContinue reading
Yeah, But It Never Happens That Way
Big jiu jitsu realization yesterday. “Yeah, but it never happens that way.” I realized pretty quickly in rugby that the way we drilled some things in practice never happened in a game. But it doesn’tContinue reading
Hopelessly Bad At This
The other day after I was taking a round off during open mat and talking to one of my favorite training partners about a visitor we were training with that day who was absolutely wreckingContinue reading
Finding My Sweet Spot For BJJ Training Intensity
For the past month or so I’ve been given the opportunity to come to the gym on Friday mornings for two hours of BJJ training. For the first hour, you get to drill exactly whatContinue reading