Resources
Articles:
Beginners & FAQs:
- Stephan Kesting’s Beginning BJJ
- Slideyfoot’s Beginner FAQ
- Fightworks Podcast #101 Sandro “Batata” Santiago and Tips for BJJ Beginners
- Aesopian’s Nuggets of Advice
- Slideyfoot’s History of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Steve’s Washing the BJJ gi (& I can personally verify the wonder-working powers of vinegar, baking soda, and line drying)
- Brazilian Portuguese for English-Speaking Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners Perhaps with a little Spanish Thrown in there just to confuse things.
Women and Jiu-Jitsu: See the full list here.
Progression:
- Aesopian’s Things to Ask Yourself and Things to Try
- Exploring the Map
- Progression in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- An Open Letter to Blue Belts
- The tao of NSLightsOut: Training, stagnation and tapping
Working Against Bigger Guys:
- Sherdog thread: How I deal with larger, stronger, heavier opponents (gi)
- Sherdog thread: BJJ Grappling Strategy Against Larger Opponents
- NHB thread, Alaina Hardie’s reply
Books:
General
- Jiu-jitsu University, Saulo Ribeiro and Kevin Howell (Slideyfoot’s review)
- Mastering Jujitsu, Renzo Gracie and John Danaher (Slideyfoot’s review, mine)
- Brazilian Jiu-jitsu: Theory and Technique, Renzo Gracie, Royler Gracie, Kid Peligro, and John Danaher (Slideyfoot’s review)
- The Path to the Black Belt, Rodrigo Gracie, Kid Peligro
Conditioning
- The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning, Mark Hatmaker
- Fit to Fight, Jason Ferruggia
- Training for Warriors, Martin Rooney
- New Rules of Lifting, Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove
- New Rules of Lifting for Women, Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove, and Cassandra Forsythe (my review)
- Core Performance Essentials, Mark Verstegen
Weight Loss
- Fat Loss Troubleshooter, Leigh Peele (my review)
Hey Grrl!
We started BJJ about the same time… and now that I’m at a Gracie school, we’re almost “family”! Just wanted to say I’m enjoying your blog a lot. I started grappling through a different martial art (kajukenbo, which includes judo and jiu jitsu) in April ‘08, but jettisoned kajukenbo to focus exclusively on BJJ and Gracie jiu jitsu (Relson specifically) last month. I too am stuck at a weight I don’t care for, though sloooowly I am transforming fat into muscle. I weigh 130 and look OK– but would really rather be 118 or so. I look forward to reading the book FLTS you mentioned.
Hey, keep up the good work!
Georgette
SUP! I have an interview on fight works podcast too… and although it’s not specifically on women in BJJ, I do get asked that question that Caleb loves so much about dating in the sport…
Thank you for all these great links.
Also, I am friends with Kevin Howell and he would be stoked to see you mention his book. Very cool!
It’s a very awesome book. My game has gotten a lot better since I started incorporating advice from it.
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Your Aesopian links are broken. Nuggets of advice is here: http://www.aesopian.com/?p=127
I don’t know where the other one is yet!
Oo, thanks for pointing that out, Neil. Seems Aesopian re-organized his site, and that changed the page URLs. Found the other one and updated them both.