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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Winning at BJJ

Last week, I finally won some fights. In fact, I won a lot of fights!
I beat a BJJ white belt who weighs 100 pounds less than me. I’m not (very) proud of this. I also beat an experienced white belt who weighs 50 pounds more than me–no mean feat. And, in my proudest achievement, I [...]

More judo weaknesses

My friends and I have been going to Brazilian ju jitsu for three weeks now. We’re all blue belts in judo, so we thought we’d know what we’re doing–BJJ came from judo, after all.
As it turns out, BJJ and judo are related, but they split so long ago that they’re as similar as gorillas and [...]