White BeltJiu-Jitsu

For white belts — and anyone who still thinks like one

Build habits.
Stay on the mat.

Most jiu-jitsu content is about what to do. This is about how — the training habits that decide whether you're still doing this in twenty years. Build them early and everything after gets easier. Calm comes before technique.

Mapping out your road to blue belt

A free PDF — the four stripe checkpoints, what each one asks of you, how many days a week to train depending on how long you've been going, and how to pick a gym that will actually get you there.

Sign up once and you get the rest too. Everything written here goes out by email as it's published — one idea at a time, nothing to buy, no schedule to keep up with. Useful whether you tied a white belt on last month or you've been at this ten years.

  • What earns your first stripe, and how long it really takes
  • How many days a week, by how long you've been training
  • Staying calm in bad positions before you learn to escape them
  • Ten guiding tips, starting with the only one that matters
  • How to tell a real instructor from a guy showing moves

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The free guide, Mapping Out Your Road to Blue Belt — fifteen pages