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- Do It Again 2024-11-01
- On Flexibility 2024-10-24
- JJM on Teaching 2024-10-17
- Full Cup 2024-10-10
- You Should Leave 2024-10-03
- Never Fight for Free 2024-09-26
- Year Two Completed 2024-09-26
- Train Elsewhere 2024-09-19
- People Near You 2024-09-12
- BJJ Drama 2024-09-05
- Connection and Humility 2024-09-05
- Ask Yourself 2024-08-29
- Give Them a Head Start 2024-08-22
- On Approaching Training 2024-08-15
- Adding and Subtracting 2024-08-09
- The Cost 2024-08-01
- Don’t Make Them Hurt You 2024-07-25
- Be Their Favorite 2024-07-18
- Tell Me 100 Times 2024-07-11
- Some Notes 2024-07-04
- Work on Technique 2024-06-27
- Clothing 2024-06-21
- Quarter to Quarter 2024-06-14
- Estimate Me 2024-06-06
- Craig Jones on Danaher 2024-05-30
- Exhale 2024-05-23
- Insurance Policy 2024-05-16
- Don’t Quit 2024-05-09
- Connections 2024-05-03
- Some Books 2024-04-25
- Right Ways 2024-04-18
- Questions 2024-04-11
- Trust 2024-04-04
- Debrief 2024-03-28
- Fake Gurus 2024-03-21
- Don’t Flex 2024-03-14
- Beginner Quotes 2024-03-07
- Don’t Celebrate 2024-02-29
- Quick Note to Parents 2024-02-22
- It’s Not Part of the Script 2024-02-15
- Amateur 2024-02-08
- Help More 2024-02-01
- Compounding 2024-01-25
- If You Don’t Have Time 2024-01-18
- It’s Your Hobby 2024-01-11
- Phony 2024-01-04
- No More Clashing 2023-12-28
- Culture Matters 2023-12-21
- Promoted to Black Belt 2023-12-14
- Titles and Letters 2023-12-07
- You Never Know 2023-11-30
- No Influence 2023-11-23
- Your Opinion 2023-11-16
- Gis 2023-11-09
- Not a Family 2023-11-02
- Costs 2023-10-26
- Goals for Class 2023-10-19
- Third Place 2023-10-12
- Bad People Stay Bad 2023-10-05
- Not Self-Defense 2023-09-28
- Art for Art’s Sake 2023-09-21
- Change 2023-09-14
- Maybe You’re the Problem 2023-09-07
- Reassurance 2023-08-31
- Helping or Impressing? 2023-08-24
- Excuses 2023-08-17
- No Resistance 2023-08-10
- Tap Early, Tap Often 2023-08-03
- BJJ with Strikes 2023-07-28
- Compete? 2023-07-20
- Teach for Yourself, Practice for Your Students 2023-07-13
- Skip It (For Now) 2023-07-06
- Social Media 2023-06-30
- When You Adopt, You Drop 2023-06-22
- DECS 2023-06-15
- Black Belt Proxy 2023-06-08
- Doing It Wrong 2023-06-01
- Jita Kyoei 2023-05-25
- Spirit of the Game 2023-05-18
- Train Forever Formula 2023-05-11
- Infinite Games 2023-05-04
- The Art of Learning 2023-04-27
- Simple 2023-04-20
- Owen Livesey on Raspberry Ape 2023-04-13
- Think Slow 2023-04-06
- Teach Kids 2023-03-30
- Sometimes, You’re Supposed to Lose 2023-03-24
- Learn From the Best 2023-03-16
- Class, Part 2 2023-03-09
- Class 2023-03-02
- School Rules 2023-02-23
- The Main Reason 2023-02-16
- BJJ and Progress 2023-02-09
- They Don’t Really Love It 2023-02-02
- Having Fun 2023-01-26
- Onboarding and Off-Boarding 2023-01-19
- No Sides 2023-01-13
- The Worst 2023-01-05
- Ultracrepidarian 2022-12-29
- Self-Defense First 2022-12-22
- Below Average 2022-12-15
- Roger on Beginners 2022-12-08
- Advice Sometimes Expires 2022-12-01
- You Don’t Have to Take It All 2022-11-24
- Talk Less 2022-11-18
- Disengage 2022-11-10
- Declining is OK 2022-11-03
- Caring and Sweating 2022-10-27
- Confidence 2022-10-20
- New Skills 2022-10-14
- Reminders, Not Lessons 2022-10-07
- The Actual Reward 2022-09-30
- Embrace Everything 2022-09-22
- It’s Not Working 2022-09-16
- Cheap 2022-09-09
- Tough Times 2022-09-01
- Kareem on Kobe 2022-08-25
- Why You Don’t Learn from Failure 2022-08-18
- Yes Rounds Off 2022-08-11
- Mikey Musumeci on Hobbyists 2022-08-04
- Ten Years of Teaching 2022-07-28
- Gracie Jiu-Jitsu La Palma 2022-07-21
- Promotion Motivation 2022-07-14
- Musashi 2022-07-07
- Emerson 2022-06-30
- Secret 2022-06-23
- Sylvio Behring 2022-06-16
- Daniel Coyle 2022-06-09
- Danaher on the Darce 2022-06-02
- Big Magic 2022-05-26
- Do Your Own Thing 2022-05-19
- Fall in Love with Who You Are 2022-05-12
- Foolish 2022-05-05
- It Was Fun 2022-04-28
- If You’re Stuck 2022-04-22
- It’s For Nothing 2022-04-14
- That’s Why I Skate 2022-04-07
- It’s Not Always What It Feels Like 2022-03-31
- Your 60s 2022-03-24
- Warmups 2022-03-17
- Henry Akins on the Basics 2022-03-10
- Your Network 2022-03-03
- Define Victory 2022-02-24
- Frustration 2022-02-17
- Boredom 2022-02-10
- Ben Askren 2022-02-03
- Ryan Hall’s Open Letter 2022-01-27
- Teach Sooner Than Later 2022-01-20
- Reps on Blues 2022-01-13
- Change Your Mind 2022-01-06
- Dean Lister on Danaher 2021-12-30
- Thinking About Belts 2021-12-24
- Valente Brothers on Belts 2021-12-16
- Chris Haueter on Belts 2021-12-07
- It’s So Freaking Awesome 2021-12-02
- You Already Know 2021-11-26
- Advanced Learning 2021-11-18
- It’s Not the Olympics 2021-11-11
- If You Trust the Source 2021-11-04
- On Using Notebooks 2021-10-28
- Unlearn to Learn 2021-10-21
- The Way of the Fight: John Danaher 2021-10-14
- Far From Mastery 2021-10-07
- Just Keep Going 2021-09-30
- Why Jiu-Jitsu 2021-09-24
- The Fighter’s Mind: John Danaher 2021-09-17
- They Want to Help 2021-09-10
- Advise Others, Advise Yourself 2021-09-03
- Garbage Time 2021-08-27
- Recreational Practitioners 2021-08-20
- An Excerpt 2021-08-12
- A Bad Clinch 2021-08-06
- White Belt Sparring, Part 2 2021-07-30
- On Celebrating 2021-07-23
- Dinosaur Facts 2021-07-16
- White Belt Sparring 2021-07-09
- More on Knowledge 2021-07-02
- Recall and Feedback 2021-06-25
- Gordon Ryan on JRE 2021-06-18
- Skills Over Attributes 2021-06-11
- You Don’t Need to Win Every Battle 2021-06-04
- Good Defense / Good Offense 2021-05-28
- Their Excuses 2021-05-21
- Stop Moving 2021-05-14
- Keep It Moving 2021-05-07
- Jean Jacques Machado 2021-04-30
- Late Stage Defense 2021-04-23
- Harvey Penick 2021-04-16
- Looking Foolish 2021-04-09
- Knowledge 2021-04-02
- Stage 5 2021-03-26
- Everything Works 2021-03-19
- Question Authority 2021-03-12
- Why Jiu-Jitsu 2021-03-05
- Hippo Teaching Baby 2021-02-26
- Seminar Submissions 2021-02-19
- Worth Defending / Opening Closed Guard 2021-02-12
- Is Success Good? 2021-02-05
- Quitting for Injuries 2021-01-29
- Stick With It 2021-01-22
- Headlocks 2021-01-15
- If You’re Not Sure, Tap 2021-01-08
- Take Action 2021-01-01
- Clinch Takedowns 2020-12-25
- RNC in MMA 2020-12-18
- Copy / Discover 2020-12-11
- Technique Lasts 2020-12-04
- Is it BS? 2020-11-27
- Start at the End 2020-11-20
- I Know That Already 2020-11-13
- When I Train With You, I’ll Make My Final Decision 2020-11-06
- Discipline of Do Easy 2020-10-30
- Sometimes Wrong Works 2020-10-23
- Not Too High, Not Too Low 2020-10-16
- How Long Will You Train? 2020-10-09
- I Don’t Know 2020-10-02
- George Leonard’s Mastery 2020-09-25
- The Intermediate 2020-09-18
- Weak and Dumb 2020-09-11
- The Common Path 2020-09-04
- Whack a Mole 2020-08-26
- Holes in Your Game 2020-08-21
- Not Magic 2020-08-14
- Don’t Talk So Much 2020-08-07
- Window of Compliance 2020-07-31
- We Send Them Elsewhere 2020-07-24
- Get to Your Spots 2020-07-18
- Prepare for Your Forties 2020-06-12
- Tap Earlier 2020-05-18
- Basics 2020-04-28
- Commit 2020-04-14
- Teach It 2020-04-07
- Extra Credit 2020-03-31
- Checkmarks 2020-03-26
- Autodidactism 2020-03-24
- Month-to-Month 2020-03-19
- Learning 2020-03-18
- Master One Side 2020-03-16
- Laundry 2020-03-11
- Secret Techniques 2020-03-10
- Perishable 2020-03-09
- No Rounds Off 2020-03-08
- Train Slow 2020-03-07
- Imposter 2020-03-06
- Breaks 2020-03-05
- Plateaus 2020-03-04
- Sparring, Part 1 2020-03-02