Developing a healthy positive mindset is a big part of training. Living a healthy lifestyle and getting in great shape are too, is this one of your goals? If you want to lose body fat, get lean and have that cool fighter’s physique, here are a few great proven tips....

I have noticed that in the last few years mixed martials arts has become the most popular fighting sport and one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Pretty much every city you go to will have some kind of mixed martial arts classes and shows. Not to far in the...

The combat sport of “Vale Tudo” that had developed in Brazil from the 1920s was brought to the United States by the Gracie family in 1993 with the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). If we look back on the history of mixed martial arts, it first...

The other day I was talking to one of my BJJ Blue Belts and he was telling how he would like to start training MMA classes again but that he was a bit demotivated. I asked him why he wasn’t training and he told me that the 2 main reasons were that 1. I was not taking...

Everyone wants to train with good guys and wants to train in a big class! But a lot of the times we wait for other people to motivate us to do things. We may have thoughts like: I wont train today because there aren’t that many guys on the mat I wont train today...

Following through on your own journey is the most important thing, do not get caught up in other people’s journey and what they doing or not doing. Your journey is your own to claim as well as your own Success! I have been around martial arts for a lot of years and...

Most of the things that we are good at in life, is because we did for long periods of time or practiced many times. That’s usually the main challenge in martial arts or any other skills you will learn in life! Most people want to be a Black belt or champion but doing...

When we start do something we are usually very excited, we have so many goals and expectations. But as time passes we need more than that! Here are few things that can help us on the long-term progress: Commitment – we tend to stick more often when we committed to...

Lately I have noticed in my classes how much time can be lost in a single training session. There lot of times at the end of the class when everyone is rolling and someone may be missing out due to being tired or injured or because it’s your turn to sit out on a round...

Being a beginner in Brazilian JiuJitsu can sometimes be frustratingand I know how you feel!BJJ can feel very different from all the other martial arts, I mean look at the positions you end up in. You can end up in Mount, back, Guard, Cross sideor even upside down....