I love Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You found my BJJ blog!
Julia ‘Jiu-Jiu’ Johansen writes a lovely BJJ blog, which she began in the summer of 2010 when she met BJJ and fell head over heels. I first ran across Julia’s tales of a BJJ grrl in Korea with this open-hearted tale of her first BJJ competition and have enjoyed her posts ever since. Julia’s most [...] Read more »
The Marc Walder BJJ Team is distributed among clubs from the south coast to the north of England. In order to ensure that advanced members of the team get to roll with one another and work their skills with people of their own level in a friendly way, Marc has started regular Brown and Black [...] Read more »
In 2009 I attended a seminar with Carmen Janke. I was a few months into my blue belt at the time and while I had respectable offensive success against females of my size and skill level and, on rare occasions, against big male noobs, I was all about survival and escaping against the (almost always) [...] Read more »
December 2010 saw the much-anticipated release (at least by women’s BJJ gi lovers) of the Atama Leticia Ribeiro Limited Edition kimono (here for the US). Why the excitement? I’ll tell you why – PURPLE BUTTERFLIES AND STARS! You see, while there are plenty of girls that can pull off the Kyra Gracie-style pink gi, equally there [...] Read more »
Readers may know that I am very excited and inspired by my team’s latest member, Kelly Nathaniel. I am super pumped to be her new sparring partner as she develops grappling skills to complement her striking in order to create a balanced MMA game. We had our first session on Tuesday and it was insanely [...] Read more »
I’m psyched. There’s a new woman on the Dartford BJJ team and she’s very tough. Kelly is a seasoned striker and is extremely strong and fit; I am very excited to have such a powerful woman on the team to balance out our Ladies Squad of shrimps! Kelly is interested in MMA and Coach has [...] Read more »