For beginners starting in their thirties and forties
Train for twenty
more years
Most jiu-jitsu content is made for twenty-two-year-old competitors. This isn't. It's the simple, low-risk version — what to work on, what to skip, and how to still be on the mat in twenty years. Calm comes before technique.
Who this is for
If you started late, you already know this isn't the same sport for you as it is for the twenty-year-olds in the room.
Nothing awkward
No inverting, no scrambles that load your neck, nothing that asks a forty-year-old body to do something it will complain about later.
Calm before technique
Most beginners aren't tired, they're tense — and tension is where the nagging injuries come from. Learning to relax is the actual first skill.
Direction, not more moves
You don't need another technique library. You need one thing to work on when you walk in, and a way to tell whether it worked.
Alongside your gym
This doesn't replace your instructor and isn't trying to. Go train, in person, with a real one.
Mapping out your road to blue belt
A free PDF on your first eighteen months — the four stripe checkpoints, what each one asks of you, and how to pick a gym that will actually get you there.
- 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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Mapping out your road to blue belt
Free PDF · 15 pages
What's being built
This is a new site and I'd rather tell you what's coming than pretend it's already here.
Now — short clips
A few a week on YouTube and Instagram. Survival details, partner etiquette, and what not to try yet.
Through the autumn — written material
The clips become proper written pieces here, organised by what's actually going wrong rather than by technique name. Everyone on the list gets them as they go up.
Early next year — the program
A two-year, week-by-week plan. One focus a week: what to drill, what to give up on purpose, and how to know it's working. It goes to this list first.