About the Author - Welcome to my Blog

Welcome to my new blog. To get started, I’d like to share a little bit about myself, and some of my thoughts regarding jiu-jitsu.

I’ve been training since 2008, heavily focused on jiu-jitsu since 2010. I’m a 37 year old, academy owner, active competitor, and also teaches a few of the adult classes each week. I teach all of the youth jiu-jitsu classes. I’m a very active coach, and you can see me at just about every competition that takes place in the state of Maryland. I believe strongly in fundamental jiu-jitsu, for both self-defense and sport. In self-defense, you’ll never play deep half guard, or lasso. In sport, you’ll never have a functioning deep half guard or lasso guard without fundamental jiu-jitsu working on autopilot.

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