So you sign up for a competition and the night before you decide to check your weight one last time. You see you still have a few pounds to go and you’re worried. You think to yourself, “How do I do it?”. “How can I drop these last few pounds before tomorrows weigh in?” As …
Not Competing, and Missing the First Day of Pan Ams 2015 🙁 Sitting at work on the first day of the Pan Ams, I could not help but stew in bitterness. While happy for my teammates and friends that competed and placed, I was wishing that I was on that mat giving it my all alongside them. …
The Road to IBJJF Pan Ams… Let’s Go! *Comment below if you are going to Pan Ams! Let me know your name, rank, and division, and I’ll add you to the list! The Pan-American Championship, or the IBJJF Pan Ams, is just around the corner, and will beginning in the second week of March . This means …
The Jiu Jitsu World League provided a day of fun and excitement. The event itself was a display of the Who’s Who of Jiu-Jitsu, bringing out All-Stars like Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida, Clark Gracie, comedian Joey Diaz, and even (quietly) Ashton Kutcher. While ‘first tournament hiccups’ were expected, the tournament ran very well, and any issues …
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Just came back from Long Beach and I just had to write about my experience working at IBJJF. My day started at 9 am. and after a brief training session on how to keep score I was assigned to a mat.The seats started to fill up and a very long day was about to get …
Well at first I was not able to attend the nationals and cheer on my two instructors. However myself and two other bjj girls teamed up and showed support on Sunday. I was a little bummed out I missed Saturday but hey I made it out on Sunday and got to cheer on my team …
After the long five-hour drive with 4 guys on the road, I was starving and tired. One of our team mates had a friend that lived in Las Vegas, who just happened to be out of town for the weekend; his house worked out great for our weekend trip! A bedroom for each of us …