They say you can’t teach heart.
I wonder if you can teach smart?
Category: Progress
Hands up who wants to talk about weight classes?
Hands up who wants to talk about weight classes? Most specifically, some weighty issues that are hiding in their shadows. No, I’m not talking about PEDs (though you’d be hard pressed to be involved in BJJ without noticing them and for sure they’re a big topic to discuss with regard to both weight gain and…
#R2AD, Week 6: The Heartbreaker
I made a tough decision a few weeks back regarding work and training. This meant I have put my career on hold (temporarily) while I chase this dream of competing as a black belt. I wrote about this a little in #R2AD, Week 1. My plan was to give this year everything I had to…
I wish I knew then…
Just over a year ago I was asked to appear at an inspiring event for young women held in Melbourne. The presentation I was to give was an hour in duration and pitched to 100+ seventeen year old girls attending a summit style event for called “Girls And Their Inner Strength“. The initiative was created by the…
Dear Jess, I just entered my first comp
Dear Jess, I just entered my first comp and I’m freaking out. Do you have any ideas about how to prepare? Also, I’m 60kg, should I cut weight or fight at my weight? Thanks. Thanks for the email. Firstly, congratulations on taking this massive step in your journey. Many people choose not to compete…
Dear Jess, my coach is making me crazy.
Dear Jess, I’m keen for a bit of advice. My gym is great. My team are outta this world – but my coach is making me crazy. Recently he made changes to our schedule and removed some classes due to a lack of attendance. I look on facebook, and though the class was removed, he…
This coach sucks
Clickbait title, check. Information, insight and advice that is beneficial for anyone that has had similar feelings toward their gym or coach, check. Experience in feeling this way at different phases of my sporting career (however challenging it is to publicly admit), check. Advice on how to understand the situation and steps to move forward…
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