The Joe Rogan Utility Belt is the Crown Prince of bum bags (what we call them in Australia) or fanny packs (the term used by our American friends). Fashionable? Maybe not. However notable fanny pack antifashionistas are legion. I include only wrestling and MMA celebrities here. The wider circle includes Kardashians and Jenners … you’ll…
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Review – Flow Jitsu – Mike Bidwell
Digital download – $49 AUS. c. 62 minutes. Available from Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood Introduction Mike Bidwell runs the BJJ After 40 blog and Facebook page. He had an interesting journey to black belt, which you can read about on this bio. He regularly posts interesting and innovative techniques and drills on Facebook, exhibiting a nimble, agile and flowing…
Review – Beyond Technique 2 – Nic Gregoriades, Kit Dale
Beyond Technique 2; BJJ Concepts Evolved, by Kit Dale and Nic Gregoriades. 75 minutes approx. Available at The Jiu Jitsu Brotherhood. Beyond Technique 2 is a follow up to the Beyond Technique video, produced by the same two gentlemen in around the third quarter of 2014. Beyond Technique (called BT1 here) approached Jiu Jitsu from…
Ido Portal’s 30/30 squat challenge
I took this up on a whim, perhaps out of boredom and a certain lack of goals since I took a break from online university courses. Described pretty much completely in this image: I didn’t feel I had any major issues with this posture, though my ankles are a bit stiff, I had one knee…
Kit Dale’s “The Art of Learning Jiu Jitsu”
These are some thoughts based on reviewing Kit Dale’s recently released video “The Art of Learning Jiu Jitsu”, with some reference to his earlier collaboration with Nic Gregoriades, called “Beyond Technique”. KD’s video is in two parts. The first is footage of a seminar he conducted in Melbourne. The second is of him talking to…
Xtreme Doorway Gym by SMAi – Product Review
The Xtreme Doorway Gym is sold by Sports Master Athletics International (SMAI). http://www.smai.com.au My Jiu Jitsu coach, Anthony Lange, had to buy his in a two for one deal and was kind enough to let me have the extra one. I can’t imagine many people would want two – once assembled it is very easy…
Art(s) vs. Science
In early 2014 I signed up for an on-line university course from Coursera on “Buddhist Meditation and the Modern World”. It was meant to start in 2Q2014 but was subsequently delayed for almost twelve months. I had a fine and rewarding experience taking another Coursera course on Android programming which lasted for most of 2014,…
All this “Over 40” stuff …
I see LOTS of websites and video series catering to so-called “older” grapplers. BJJ Over 40 BJJ After 40 40 plus BJJ OG (Old Guy) grappling (put out by a Lloyd Irvin student who was 36 or something. Annoying shtick to boot) etc. etc. I’m 60 and a black belt, you young whippersnappers. I didn’t…