Sitemap - 2024 - The Grappler's Diary

A Simple But Effective BJJ Tournament Preparation Guide

How to Be a Modern Renaissance Person

10 Ideas That Will Rapidly Accelerate Your Skill Development

A Simple Idea That Will Turn You Into a Winner

How I Turned My Worst Year Into My Best Year

This Simple Skill Will Make You Twice as Dangerous From the Guard

The Golden Age of Jiu-Jitsu

Why You Need to Change Your Mind

How to Reinvent Yourself as a Grappler

Why You Should Take More Chances

What I Learned From Having 15 Matches In 5 Days

My Daily Writing System to Juggle Everything

Getting Ready For My First Marathon

How to Overcome Burnout

The Perfect Jiu-Jitsu Gym Doesn't Exi...

Why "Suffering" Is the Key to Happiness

An Essential Concept That Will Make Your Leg Locks Better

How I Used Jiu-Jitsu to Build My Life

A Day In the Life of a Professional Grappler

The Pros and Cons of Hustling

The Grappler's Travel Diary: Paris and the French Riviera

What It's Really All About

The Reality of Opening Up Your Own Gym

The 7 Stupidest "Traditions" in Jiu-Jitsu

How to Stay Consistent

How We Ran a Jiu-Jitsu Camp In Another Continent

Why It's Good to Get Stuck

How to Be Humble In Jiu-Jitsu

The Hard Truth About Discipline

How to Take Down Better Wrestlers Than You

How to Be Excellent

Anxiety, Competition, and Overcoming Yourself

10 Questions With My Coach's First Female Black Belt

How to Stay Focused When You're In a Sh*tstorm

Why You Need to Slow Down to Speed Up

What I Learned From Surprising Myself at ADCC 2024

How to Get Whatever You Want

It's the Biggest Week In Jiu-Jitsu History

27 Lessons From 27 Years of Life

The Black Belt Survival Guide

The Difference Between Winners and Losers

Why There Won't Be Jiu-Jitsu in the Olympics

This Is Why You Never Feel Satisfied

Why There's No "Right Way" to Train Jiu-Jitsu

Why Everything Sucks

7 Core Principles For Improving Your Guard Passing

Why It's Good to Be In a Cult

The Brown Belt Survival Guide

5 Life Lessons From the First Half of 2024

What Jiu-Jitsu Is All About

The Mid-Year Reflection 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Self-Defense Jiu-Jitsu (and more!)

Why doing what you love makes it hard to fit in...

This Simple Habit Helps Me Overcome All of My Doubts

The 7 Timeless Training Habits of Highly Effective Grapplers

Why Most People Don't Reach Their Goals

The Purple Belt Survival Guide

Why Motivated People Are Miserable

10 Questions With Atos Brown Belt Rose Miller

10 Simple Habits That Helped Me Kick Anxiety

How to Get Better at Jiu-Jitsu Faster (Updated)

This Is Why Self-Improvement Bothers Me

10 Questions With the Man Who Built the Best Gym I've Ever Trained At

Why Most People Suck at Goal-Setting

The White Belt Survival Guide

10 Lifestyle Design Lessons That Allowed Me to Train BJJ Every Single Day

I Went On 27 Trips In Last Year. Here Are My 10 Best Travel Tips

How to Get Strong on the Mat (According to a Professional)

The Little Secret That Top Performers Don't Tell You About

8 Subtle Habits That Make It Impossible For You to Succeed

You Don't Get Better Because You Keep Making This Huge Mistake

Tips For Dealing With BJJ Injuries

How to Be Happy (Without Babying Yourself)

Stuck In Your Head? Here's How I Beat Competition Anxiety For Good

For When You Want to Quit

Why You Shouldn't Cut Weight

10 Life Lessons From Completely Restructuring My Life

How to Change Your Life In One Year

Why You Should Stop Trying to Be Strong

10 Questions with 2-Time ADCC Veteran Keith Krikorian

This Is Why You're Stuck

The Toughest Archetype in BJJ

The Meaning of Life According to Bruce Lee

How to Deal With Burnout In BJJ

If You Get Anxiety About Competing in Jiu-Jitsu, Open This

The Art of Not Being Yourself

The Grappler's Travel Diary: Tangier, Morocco

Why It's Good to Take a Break Sometimes

5 Essential "Meta-Skills" For Faster Learning

The Grappler's Travel Diary: Barcelona

What Most People Don't Understand About Failure

One Simple Quote From a Lunatic That Keeps Me From Giving Up

Here's Why BJJ Is So Boring to Watch

10 Little Lessons That Help Me Avoid Burnout

Most Grapplers Never Learn This Essential Skill

What I Learned From January 2024

Why Life Isn't Like a Movie

How to Win More

How to Stay Focused

What Makes a Great Jiu-Jitsu Instructor?

The Problem With Competition

Why You Shouldn't Compete

One Simple Habit That Will Make You Fearless

The Worst Parts of BJJ Culture

The Word I'm Trying to Live By In 2024

How to Prepare For a Jiu-Jitsu Competition

How to Be Remarkable

The White Belt's Mind