Challenge Yourself in BJJ
A challenge, no matter how big or small, changes us. When we set up challenges for ourselves, those challenges can change us in a positive way; they can force us to grow. Any time you intentionally leave your comfort zone, you expand it.
Are You Productive with Your Training, or do You Just Look Busy?
Maybe you spend most of your time at a gym where you aren’t truly being challenged because you’re the best person there. Maybe you don’t roll with people because you know they are going to make you put effort in when you don’t want to.
Demolish the Closet Recap
On Easter Sunday, we helped organize and sponsor an event called Demolish the Closet in which we showed up and showed out in support of our transgender friends and family. As many know, we have had a rising tide of anti-trans legislation sweeping across the nation riding on a wave of misinformation and outright falsehoods. This surge in anti-trans laws has also sparked a surge in violence against the trans community.
Why I Won't Train Cops and You Shouldn't Either
I recently had the opportunity to travel to Memphis, Tennessee to join in on the protests against police brutality for the murder of Tyre Nichols. While I did not get to participate in the kind of direct actions that I was able to as part of the Good Trouble 65 or the Filibuster 42, but I was able to meet local activists and organizers and see how they worked and what they were doing to push the work forward.