Tag: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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…

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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…

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Australian Girls in Gi is sexist

“If anyone started an Australian Boys in Gi, you girls would lose your shit. It wouldn’t be allowed ” ~ Facebook genius, November 2016. Other popular variations also aimed at myself, Australian Girls and Gi and its members since 2010: Australian Girls in Gi/womens only events and organisations are reverse sexism (reverse of what, isn’t sexism just…

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