June 2019 - alldaybjj

Loyalty vs Convenience: Switching Teams When Your Instructor Leaves

It is no surprise to see black belts switching teams/affiliations for a variety of reasons. But what happens when that black belt is the head instructor at your academy and you are faced with the tough decision to either stay with your current team or leave and follow your instructor? For many, this seems like […]

The Higher the Belt, the Less You Train?

One day before training, another brown belt teammate and I were chatting with one of the newly promoted purple belts, congratulating him on his promotion. This purple belt is an older gentleman, who was super stoked about his promotion. He started joking about how now that he got promoted, he has an even bigger target […]

2019 AZ State and AZBJJF Season Results

By: Danny O’Donnell and shot by Ryan Laurent The 2019 AZ State Championships wrapped up an action packed 2018-19 tournament season for the AZBJJF. There were 921 total matches over the course of the weekend with 401 of them ending by submission. Competitors from 25 countries, 92 clubs, and 49 teams registered to solidify their […]

What’s All the (Roid) Rage?

While one of the most exciting Jiu-Jitsu competitions of the year has come and gone, there is still very much a large buzz about wins, losses, and of course, accusations of performance enhancing drug use (PEDs). Last year, we wrote about the big deal of BOMBA in BJJ, but much of the “roid” rage (no […]

Motivation vs Discipline

It’s funny (but also kind of creepy) how you’ll be thinking or talking about something and just so happens that something similar (or exact) pops up on your social media feeds as a sponsored post. In any case, I recently got out of a little training slump where I didn’t feel motivated to train like […]

Should Promotions Be a Surprise or Not? /// By: Vincent Inoncillo

When we first start Jiu-Jitsu we are so alien to the whole thing. We may have seen it being used in an MMA or Jiu-Jitsu match, or maybe from videos online. But nothing could be more different than the actual first time you get a full on roll. As in it being your first day […]

BJJ Recovery: Cupping

As athletes, whether professional or recreational, recovery is super important to keep us healthy performing at our best. Lately as I’ve been scrolling through my IG posts, I’ve seen more and more friends in the sport turn to cupping as a supplement to their recovery (percussion massage, massage therapy, chiro, and cryotherapy). Perhaps it is […]

Play to Win, Not to NOT Lose

Worlds 2019 is officially in the books. Some made history, others didn’t. Some notable names had to bow out to their teammates to open up the path to the podium because the black belt bracketing left more questions than answers. Some got DQ’ed (even double DQ’ed), which had a huge impact on who made it […]

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