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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: May 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Monday, May 26, 2014. Mental preparation for competition: building realistic confidence. We humans tend to have pretty high opinions of ourselves. In studies of social psychology, most individuals rate themselves as above average in just about every realm. Likewise, we rate ourselves higher than others rate us. It is mathematically impossible for so many of us to actually be. It is likely that I believe that I am a better at my job than I actually ...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: May 2015
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Monday, May 25, 2015. The unwritten rules of jiu jitsu etiquette: 5 things I wish I knew as a white belt. There are myriad explicit rule sets governing jiu jitsu. Competition organizations have their own sets of published rules (the IBJJF rule book is 44 pages long! Here are the unwritten rules of jiu jitsu that I wish I had known when I was a white belt:. Do not ask black belts to roll. Should be the one to ask you. Jiu jitsu is magnetic. Even...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: November 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Surviving my first MMA fight. It took me a long time to find an opponent. I wanted to fight locally, in one of the Bull City Brawl events, but was having no luck finding someone to fight. So when this fight came up, even though it was 6 hours away, I jumped at the chance. Training camp was 50% painful, 25% hungry, miserable, carb-deprived, and 25% adrenaline rush. I got beat up a lot:. It was an unexpected rush. Until I ...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: January 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Monday, January 20, 2014. Pre-self defense.using my words and knowing when to act rude. I feel confident in my ability to hold my own in a physical confrontation. I have purple belt level self defense skills. Physically, I am strong as shit from grappling grown men on a daily basis. And I have intstincts to react violently when I think someone is trying to hurt me. Luckily, I turned out to be in no physical danger from this interaction. But as ...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: Recruiting and retaining women in jiu jitsu
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Friday, March 27, 2015. Recruiting and retaining women in jiu jitsu. What do jiu jitsu women want? The question of "what do women want" has puzzled men since about the time they became bipeds. And it's never had an easy answer. We women are a complex, heterogeneous lot, difficult to lump together in broad, blanket statements. But what I am interested in here is "what do women want in a jiu jitsu school? Not if you consider the missing 30% lost reve...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: April 2015
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Sunday, April 12, 2015. In the context of rape culture, is promoting women's self defense anti-feminist? Tides are changing in the way we think about rape prevention and maybe it's over due. Advocates have long armed women with strategies for preventing rape - walking to your car with a buddy, never leaving your drink unattended, avoiding isolated areas at night, carrying pepper spray and rape whistles, and even studying martial arts. 8220;Let̵...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: In the context of rape culture, is promoting women's self defense anti-feminist?
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Sunday, April 12, 2015. In the context of rape culture, is promoting women's self defense anti-feminist? Tides are changing in the way we think about rape prevention and maybe it's over due. Advocates have long armed women with strategies for preventing rape - walking to your car with a buddy, never leaving your drink unattended, avoiding isolated areas at night, carrying pepper spray and rape whistles, and even studying martial arts. 8220;Let̵...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: September 2014
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Friday, September 12, 2014. Jiu Jitsu is a douche bag filter? This meme has been circulating on Facebook and has garnered thousands of likes:. Lol, Eddie. Good one! But, while those who are not Eddie Bravo fans might find some irony in the messenger of this post, we tend not to dispute the message itself. Does swimming weed out the weak-hearted newbies who can't face it when they lose? Some people become douchier with time. Some people who surv...
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu: July 2015
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A nice lady's adventures in the gentle art of jiu jitsu. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. How to safely train heel hooks and other advanced techniques. There's a reason that certain techniques are reserved for advanced ranks in most competitions - these techniques are considered the most dangerous. Either because a) there is a shortened window for tapping before injury occurs or b) the effects of not tapping in time are more devastating than those of most techniques or c) both a and b. But, these techniques are l...
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