Transcript – Excerpt from The BJJ Foxcast Episode 87 with Scott Burr The interviewer is Alex Martinez About 46 minutes in. SB: I’ve had some interesting conversations with people. For whatever reason, I end up in these conversations with people who are like in their 40s, and they just got their black belt, and what…
Category: Personal
What I REALLY want from Jiu-Jitsu
Before anyone outside the obvious places had heard of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I practiced various styles of Kung Fu, starting in 1977. My first Kung Fu instructor started training in 1963. He was one of the rare breed that trained martial arts before Bruce Lee. Like the Dirty Dozen, who were training Jiu-Jitsu before UFC 1…
Injuries, Training Methods, and Eco-Warriors
On a Wednesday in early February 2024, I suffered a broken left arm in training. A crack to the ulna. We were playing a jiu-jitsu game where one partner was trying to pass the open guard, and the other trying to retain their guard. I was in a group of three. One of my partners…
Lange’s MMA
Jiu Jitsu is like an ocean, broad, deep, and for all practical purposes, infinite. In early 2007 I signed up at Lange’s MMA to sail across this ocean. We relied on our Captain and Navigator, Anthony Lange, for safe passage on this voyage of discovery, reminded regularly that calm seas do not make a good…
Graham Nerlich
Graham Nerlich was my father. He died on March 31, 2022, aged ninety-two. He lived a full and productive life. Firstly, as a professional philosopher, with professorships at both Sydney University and the University of Adelaide, where he spent two decades in the Hughes Chair of philosophy until retirement in 1994. He remained active within…
My Interview with Ron-E Rowley
Ronnie is a fellow Jiu Jitsu black belt at Lange’s MMA in Sydney. He took the initiative to interview his fellow instructors at Lange’s to break down the distance and divide between instructors and students and hopefully make us more approachable … and human. Songs
Life in a Cult – Crash. A Cautionary Tale
Not Jiu Jitsu. But perhaps relevant to some Jiu Jitsu academies, instructors, and students. Definitely about self defence. Crash is not the real name of the organisation. It isn’t far off the real name. The guy who introduced and initiated me into Crash was named Alick. (Not really). I did gymnastics for sport and as…
My interview on the Jungle Brothers podcast
I was invited by Joe Worthington of the Jungle Brothers gym to be a guest on their podcast. It was fun. We talked about my forty plus years training martial arts, and how I’ve been able to maintain my practice and my enthusiasm into my late sixties. https://junglebrothers.com/121-martial-arts-being-a-life-long-learner/ There were quite a few ideas I…
It Seems to be Working Part 4 – No Lessons Learned
Chances Moana, the guy who attacked me in a road rage incident in May 2018, who I forgave on television, and who was subsequently sentenced to eighteen months jail, doesn’t appear to have learned anything from his experience. I’m sure the Dee Why cops, who arrested him back then, would have been really impressed to…
Birthday Fundraiser – 65 Minutes for 65 Years
My sixty-fifth birthday happened to fall on a Sunday, December 8, in 2019. That’s a Jiu Jitsu training day for me. I had some vague ideas about rolling (wrestling) for sixty-five minutes straight as a birthday challenge, but without any real plan or motivation. Will I? Won’t I? Will anyone care? Do I really care?…