Dose

I’m honestly pretty impressed with people who are able to write/blog regularly while leading a “normal” life (i.e. they don’t write for a living). I’ve had the best of intentions but free time tends to get allocated pretty quickly.  Regardless, I’ve mentioned that writing about stuff is nice because it provides some perspective, and that’s something that everyone could use a little more of, especially me. I think that committing a thought to paper (pixels?) and knowing that it’s out there in the world for people to read makes you look at the position of perspective you’re holding a little differently, like a little dose of self-therapy.

PFD & ship building

Waaaaay back at the end of April we had our semi-annual (but a first for us) grading and seminar. The Master of the BJJ lineage we train under, Mater Sylvio Behring, comes to town a couple times a year, and at those times he oversees the grading for stripes and the belt demonstrations as well as puts on a few seminars. This was a weekend of firsts for us; we were “testing” for a stripe on our white belts as well as attending his seminar the next day.

Uphill both ways, waist deep snow

Day of my first BJJ class and it snows all day.

I’m going to go because a) it’d be easy not to and b) maybe others won’t come and I’ll more individual instruction.

I’ll make sure to tell my kids of the hardships I endured when I started.

Research into starting BJJ

I won’t write too much here, I just want to collect the various pieces of info I’ve found helpful in researching BJJ.

Specifically, this is a collection of information aimed at starting BJJ that I found useful. I did a post-grad degree and my current job requires a lot of research so when I’m interesting in something on a personal level, my instinctive response is to unleash my finely honed (not really) google-fu skills upon it. I’ll write something later about resources that I’ve found helpful as a beginner… you know, once I’ve actually begun training.

Why?

Good question… what am I doing, and why?

I could point to a number of points in time. Incidents that could be followed up by “… and that’s why I started working out, took up BJJ and otherwise got my shit together.”

The Fog

I’m starting this as more of a journal than anything else. I have delusions of having this grow to be the “go-to blog about blahblahblah” that people of the internets rave about, but that’s likely to remain a delusion at best.