I had the pleasure of being on the Podcast Fighters Drinking Coffee earlier this year. I had a lot of fun hanging out with Scott and Mike. They really know what they are talking about. You…
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Looks like we made it…to Jiu Jitsu Magazine
Over the Pedro Sauer World Conference weekend I received a text message from one of my training partners, Tony. He said, “I was flipping through a magazine and look what I found.” And there…
Inspiring the next generation of women: my experience teaching self defense for the girl scouts.
This weekend I had the pleasure of teaching a group of 10-year-old girls and their moms an intro to self-defense. This is actually the second I’ve gotten a chance to spread my love of martial…
Looking back on 2015: resolutions that I always don’t make and I finally might know why.
Looking back on 2015 I realized that I always have super big aspirations at the beginning of the year and by the end of it I never accomplished any of them and just disappointing myself….
Simple Not Easy: Things I wish someone said to me as I started as a white belt.
Simple Not Easy: Things I wish someone said to me as I started as a white belt. I was recently doing a private with a white belt who told me she was afraid to roll…
Backhanded Jiu Jitsu Compliments
When I first started training these were comments people used to say to me when I started. So I figured I would share them with you now. So here are the top 5 backhanded Jiu…
Why Martial Arts?
Why not a lawyer? Or sell wine for a living? Why not knitting or scrapbooking? Why not marriage, 2 kids and a mortgage? I’ll tell you why…I don’t know… When I was 9 I took…
2014 – A Year in Review
Usually by the end if the year I get depressed. I’m out of my routine because of the holidays. I’m not training enough and I think back on all the goals that I had…