Training systems, measured progress, and the occasional hot take.
You saved the technique. Then someone put real weight on you and it disappeared. Your definition of learned is the problem.
The Blue Belt Plateau Is Usually Hiding in One PositionThe whole of your jiu-jitsu is not stuck. One or two positional ceilings are contaminating the rest of the round.
A Technique That Worked Once Is Not Yet YoursThe difference between performance and repeatability — and the two words that keep training honest.
61% of Grapplers Keep Their Entire Game in Their Memory. Here Is the Bill.What storing your jiu-jitsu in your head actually costs, and the 20-second fix.
5 Mistakes Almost Every White Belt Makes (Mistake 4 Costs the Most)Hard training, slow progress? The gap is never effort. It is one of these five.
Why BJJ Tracking Apps Don't Work (I Built One That Didn't)Four reasons every grappling tracker dies in a week, from someone who built one.
The Blue Belt Blues Are Real. 5 Reasons Progress Disappeared (None Are Talent)You survived white belt, then the scoreboard vanished. How to make progress visible again.
Getting Smashed Every Class? 5 Reasons It Never Seems to Get BetterThe beatings are the price of admission. Paying it twice for the same lesson is optional.
Training BJJ Over 35: 5 Reasons Progress Slows (And How Smart Grapplers Fix It)You cannot out-train the 24-year-olds on volume. Every session has to count instead.
5 Reasons You Underperform at Competition (Talent Is Not One of Them)The bracket tests only what is proven. Walk in knowing what that is.
Why You're Not Getting Better at BJJ (It's Not Talent)Random training produces random results. The one-focus system and the 9-level proof ladder.
BJJ Belts in Order, and How Long Each One Really TakesThe IBJJF belt system explained with data from 3,316 grapplers: time on the mat, training, competing, stripes and coral belts.
No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu: What It Is, and Who Really Trains ItGi vs no-gi, what to wear and the IBJJF and ADCC rules, with data on who trains gi, no-gi or both from 3,316 grapplers.
BJJ Journal: What to Write After Class (Free Template)The five things worth writing after class, a template to copy, and a ten-minute weekly review that tells you what to work on next.
A beginner’s guide: the sport, the first class, belts and costs.
Every belt, the IBJJF times, and how 3,316 grapplers train at each one.
Training frequency at every belt, from 3,316 members’ answers.
IBJJF gi and no-gi divisions for men and women, in kg and lb.
Rules, scoring, the gi, takedowns vs groundwork, and belts compared.
Your first 12 weeks, one position a week.
A weekly plan that proves what works.
Ten apps compared: what each is for, platforms and prices.
Steps and common mistakes for the two most-practiced escapes.
Steps, common mistakes and when it works.
Five steps to a flat knot that stays tied through a class.
What 298 female JitsAI members told us about belts, training and competing.
Every term explained in plain English, from “advantages” to “X-guard”.
What actually transfers, and a weekly template built around your mat days.