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New Version of Gym Tracker – Couchjitsu
It’s been about 3.5 years since I first wrote about the app I wrote to track how much time I’d spent at the gym doing various classes. I’ve been using that app the entire time, and it’s been good, at ...
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Best Moves to Learn – Couchjitsu
It’s been roughly 12 months since I learned the “arm-bar escape.” The reason I had learned this was I was consistently getting arm-barred in sparring, and even in our in-house tournament that year, I ...
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“How do you do it?” – Couchjitsu
Friday
4:30-6pm Open mat
That comes out to about 9 hours of time at the gym, with 7.5 of that being BJJ. I’m not always able to do this schedule, for example, last week, I hurt my back a bit on Tuesd...
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Comparing Myself – Couchjitsu
The last few weeks I’d been thinking about how I measure myself in BJJ. I realized that I’ve had a problem throughout my life. It’s not easy to be succinct with what the problem is, but I’ll try.
In...
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Couchjitsu – Page 3 – From couch potato to BJJ
I’ve been really sporadic in my training this year. Just a lot of things going on. A lot of excuses I can offer as to why I haven’t trained as much as in recent years. But none of those matter, I hav...
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Five Years – Couchjitsu
August 6, 2012 was the first day I walked into Mid-America Martial Arts. I took a tour of the facility, bought a gi, learned how to tie my belt, and the became completely exhausted from the warmup.
I ...