Yesterday Helio Gracie passed away at the age of 95.
Helio Gracie was the inventor of the modern martial art of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.  My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

…keeping this blog updated.  Anytime I think about updating the “Things I know” page, I cringe.   I have learned so much in the past 2 months, that I don’t even know where to begin to update it.  I don’t even think I remember everything.    I will get to it one day.  But for now, I [...]

No post in a while.  I had a good class yesterday.  I really needed that.  The two classes before were really bad, and I was feeling really down about my ability to do this.  I just could not get anything right.
Yesterday was the first time that the warm up did not kick my butt.  I [...]

I have been training for a month and a half now.  I feel like I have learned so much, but still don’t know anything.  Does that make sense? My cardio is getting better.  My instructor even noticed today.  I feel like it is slowly getting better.  I am no longer half dead after warm up…I [...]

Happy New Year!
I went to an open mat class on Monday, and it ended up being a pretty bad class.  We had the choice of gi or no gi, so I chose gi.  It started out OK.  Vlad showed me 4 submissions; Rear-Naked choke, Cross-Collar choke, Americana and Kimora.  Then he went to roll with [...]