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
Category: Doing
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
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
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
2018 Excalibur 10 Miler Race Report
;TLDR Version Ran much faster than I thought I would (1:20:05) Ran almost as fast as I could have–made a couple of small mistakes that probably cost me some time. Still love this race. StillContinue reading
Re-Focusing on Closed Guard
Another BJJ revelation the other day. Surprise surprise. I really like Coach Frank’s teaching style and the cool stuff he shows us. But as I was struggling through my 6th or so inverted rotation fromContinue reading
BJJ Class With Big Wave Dave Mewborn – 2.1.2018
I’ve always been very uncomfortable rolling with Dave. Not that he makes me uncomfortable or anything. It’s just that everything I do seems to be wrong. It’s like it’s a really big mistake to layContinue reading
BJJ Thoughts From The First Days
Last night I happened on a couple of entries from my personal journal that made me chuckle a little. It’s crazy how much your life can change based on what seem like small occurrences andContinue reading
Muay Thai Seminar With Sean Fagan
I’m not a Muay Thai guy, but it was really cool to get to go to a seminar with THE Muay Thai guy! One thing I love about Off The Grid BJJ is the steadyContinue reading
2017 Space Coast Half Marathon Race Review
TL;DR Version… Years and years of training have paid off. I’m happy I still know how to run mentally, even when the physical part isn’t there. My cardio is really good, but my legs weren’tContinue reading
Here’s Where I Am With Running
Half marathon in 8 days. Haven’t really trained. Longest run I’ve done is 8 miles, and that was 2 or 3 weeks ago. Race day is going to hurt. If I go run long thisContinue reading