Author name: FractalBJJ

I started training Jiu Jitsu in 2008 and it quickly became the thing I do. In 2015 I opened an academy, Summit County Jiu Jitsu, and I really loved it. I loved the community. I loved studying movement full time. I met some of the greatest people in there. Dec, 31st 2021 due to the financial pressures of covid on top of the pressures of making the business arrangement I had agreed for the academy to I gave my half of the academy to my business partner and entered a strange phase of life. The phase of being lost. I worked as a river guide. I went to massage school and did body work using the knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and most importantly my ability to feel fascia, skills and knowledge gained from training martial arts. Despite the ravings of my clients, it didn't feel the void. Many of my former students message me frequently, they make the world bright and give me the desire to teach again. I though a lot about the things I taught within Jiu Jitsu and how if I ever taught again I would record it all and put in online. Movement, I craved dynamic movement. I left body work and river guided again. I left the country and wandered almost the entire country of Vietnam. Decided to stay. Throughout it all I kept training my body, searching for fascial connections and linking them to my breath. Preparing for the unknown day when I would train again. Four and half years of not training, well I tried occasionally but life always prevented it. Now I am training again consistently, life is stable. The head coach of Jiu Jitsu for the Vietnamese national team comes to teach at the gym. He asks me to show something in class. He has been watching me train and teach some things to the other students on the security cameras. He hires me to start teaching again with the aim of developing a community and the team. Now I am creating this website to post what I teach online. I feel happy. Time to begin.

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