Hello from DeBruyckerland! Things have been busy but great here. Last Friday was my 8 year anniversary of the kid’s Jiu Jitsu program at Pedro Sauer HQ. “When you love what you do you’ll never work…
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Travel and Training: My Seminar in North Carolina
Martial arts if my life and teaching is my passion. When I get the chance to share this with others nothing fills me with more joy. Last weekend I had the opportunity to teach my…
Weekly Recap: 5/1-5/7
Monday: Private on White to Blue Kid’s Muay Thai- Footjab Stance and Motion Bagwork Kid’s Jiu Jitsu- Open guard drills Collar choke from guard Adult BJJ with Master Sauer- Positional Training (Sweep or Submit) Adult…
The Art of Controlled Dying: How to Cut Weight
The Art of Controlled Dying Cutting weight is probably on of my least favorite activities on the planet. If you have ever read any of my other post on the topic you know how much….
Weekly Recap: 4/1-4/22
I’m on week three of healing my dislocated finger. It has been super annoying but I’ve found a way to work around my injury versus working through my injury. I also started a new diet…
Train like you don’t have health insurance, because I don’t!
I don’t have health insurance. Now, this isn’t a post on politics or a complaint about my employer. I have just found for my personal situation that it is more economically feasible for me not…
Weekly Recap: 4/10-4/16
Happy Easter! (For those of you who celebrate it) It was spring break this week for the kids here in Northern Virginia so classes were pretty light. But Jeff Curran came to visit this week…
Weekly Teaching Recap & Women’s Jiu Jitsu Weekend
This week was great! I got to do stuff that I usually don’t get to do, teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to adults!!! This always very exciting to me. I’ve been teaching kids for so long…
Teach Movement Not Moves: How to Teach BJJ to Children
In class, when I teach a child a move some people ask me how do you do it? How do you teach a child something as difficult as Jiu Jitsu? Well…the answer is a bit like…
Leverage Knows No Gender: My Experience Being a Female Martial Arts Instructor
Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day and the most interesting thing happened the night before. I was just finishing up teaching my Kid’s Muay Thai class with my assistant instructor Shane when I noticed in…