20 de fevereiro "Jiu-jitsu is one-way. There is no u-turn" Sometimes Professor Leo says words that sound wise and make sense. Other...

20 de janeiro "If the wave can't sweep you, neither can the opponent." Let 2023 be the year I learn how to surf.

8 de janeiro 2023 Writing this a few weeks after my latest competition (December 15 in Del Mar, put on by Jiu Jitsu World League). I...

23 outubro 2022 This week was a good week: COMPETITION - 15 outubro - Del Mar Fairgrounds (Jiu Jitsu World League) By now, I suspect...

open mat - sábado, 24 de setembro back in San Diego after a longish time away (in San Francisco for work -- more on that to come). for...

A musing on learning modalities vis-a-vis Software Engineering and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 26 de agosto TL / DR: Learning Jiu Jitsu is like...

20 de agosto Apparently green belts are not a real thing*, but I'm still excited I got mine! On Saturday, we had practice at 10:30am (we...

16 de agosto My first weight-cutting experience & a life lesson There's this concept called "no sprinkles" that my brother,...

17 de julho Let's start with the defeats: I did my first jiu jitsu competition yesterday, Saturday July 16th. I lost both of my matches...

12 de julho Today Professor Gustavo got back from Brazil. We had an awesome training (~8-10 of us) where we went over some guard passes...

1º de abril I was never interested in learning martial arts. I have many items on the sports-and-physical-activity-learning backlog (top...