Man in the shell
What is this blog (and do you care)?
Hello, and welcome to my blog. This blog will serve as a clearinghouse for my thoughts on training, nutrition, a little jiu-jitsu, decision making, and occasional mathematics and philosophy. While I can claim some relative expertise in those first two topics, I have limited formal education in the other topics, although they are deeply interesting to me and I study them often.
I got to compete…
For my first Grappling Industries competition, the logistics were far from perfect, and the bracket I competed in was small and shrunk even more by the time we were ready to roll. But that’s not what this post is about.
why i train bjj
“If jiu jitsu makes you so miserable, why do you keep doing it?”
This is the question my seventeen year old posed to me the other night as I lay in bed with a few ailments. It’s also a question multiple other family members or clients have asked me, so I wanted to take a moment to try to answer it. (read more)