Archive | January, 2010

Can You Improve Without an Instructor.

Can You Improve Without an Instructor.

Dear Readers, There are certain ingredients that a person needs to become successful: 1. Drive/Passion/Perseverance/Will Power: and a similar of character traits that are found within a person. 2. Intelligence/Decisions/Common Sense/Logic: and a bunch of intellectual traits found in the athlete that will help him maximize the resources around him to  the best extent possible. [...]

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IBJJF European Championship 2010

IBJJF European Championship 2010

Ok so before I begin I will tell you that it was not my best tournament. My first match started with me being a bit nervous. I had to catch myself from over-gripping in unnecessary situations…which was a sign of improvement in my BJJ because I have never caught myself paying attention to this in [...]

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Italy Trip in 2010

Italy Trip in 2010

Let me give you the inside scoop on how it all happened. I have been in  GOAL ACHIEVING mode. I have been writting about it all over the place. I even started a website dedicated to achieving goals; www.GoGetterLifestyle.com ,but not only that  I wanted to demosntrate to my students that writting goals down and goin over [...]

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WVP: Website News and Upcoming Project!

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Improve Your BJJ While Cooking

So Hopefully you read: Improve Your BJJ While Driving http://bjjengineer.com/?p=343. Well while at the gyms laughing about it, and discussing how important is to with a busy day make things automatically and efficient we thought of other places when one person can improve BJJ while doing other daily activities. We add it this one. Improve [...]

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Athletes Don’t Walk …They Run!

Athletes Don’t Walk …They Run!

Today I had an epiphany.  I had my good friend Mike Atkins from Crazy 88 BJJ and MMA of Baltimore, MD visiting. We where hanging out and doing some errands. I am currently in the habit of running 7 minutes every morning before breakfast ( breakfast becomes the reward). So I started my day with [...]

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Braulio Estima – ADCC Absolute Champion

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Goals for 2010 – Happy New Year Everyone.

My friend Marcos Avellan from Team FFA in Miami send a newsletter out where he released 12 goals for 2010. Here are his goals: Fight and Win 3 MMA fights Release two unique instructional DVD sets (one MMA instructional and another business instructional) Reach 200 students in my new Davie gym Start an After-School Program [...]

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