Work/Life Balance if BJJ is your life

   How often have you missed a training session because your schedule gets thrown off?  It's cool if you can make up for it soon but if you're an adult average Joe who doesn't do BJJ for a living what can you do?  It would be very cool if your job had some in house Jiu Jitsu wouldn't it?

Well, if you're lucky enough to work at Google now you can as the Bloody Elbow reported that" Google offers in house BJJ to its employees".  It looks like Google just became the most awesome place to work if you're a lover of the art.  Where do we apply?

Supplemental training.

   Not all of us our professional fighters or BJJ competitors as much as we would like to be.  We have bills to pay, families to take care of and doing that requires us to have jobs that will sometimes interfere with where we would rather be.  When that happens, in order to keep you mind and body sharp you have to supplement your learning experience somehow.

Both this video and his book I use.

I've always been comfortable using books and videos since I got my first book, The Tao of Jeet Kun Do by Bruce Lee.  It gave me my first work out regiment that prepared me for my future in Martial Arts and the importance of staying fit to keep my body ready to absorb new technique, even as I got older.  I have many books on Martial Arts, various disciplines not just Brazilian Jiu Jitsu since I did other disciplines in my life.  I always found books and videos helpful as supplemntal instruction to what was done at the academy.  This past weekend one of my training partners said, "I can't learn off of videos" and that surprised me.  I wondered why that would be?  I would think videos are more detailed than a book which seems to have been the standard before mass video production and the internet. I asked him to explain, and he said "I don't know, I just can't."  I'm sure it's individual preference but these things don't sell well for no reason, and I have to add this person is the probably one of a few that do not use supplemental instruction.  For the most part, the rest of my training partners do like to supplement their training with books and videos, mainly Youtube videos.

Does anyone else have preferred training supplements or are you like my friend and need a person to show them everything?  Both, are necessary in my opinion if you want to keep an open mind and I think any opportunity to learn is one that should not be passed on.

Naked without my Gi and a Jiu Jitsu PSA

    Sickness is the worse!!!  I hate getting sick because it keeps me off the mat and my school was moving so I haven't rolled in two weeks.  I haven' worn my gi in 2 weeks and it kills me, I've been laid up with this sickness wrapped in layers but I feel naked since I haven't worn my gi.

With respect to my training partners I hope everyone understands I like to keep the illnesses off the mats and protect others from getting sick too.  I would hope that is the way other people think but that is not always the case.  No matter how many announcements are made, people still feel the need to try and be tough and bring their diseases to the mat.  Nothing is proved by doing this other than you know how spread a disease, some people are competing at various levels and getting sick is the last thing they need.

Please stay home if you're sick, no one else needs to miss training just because you thought it would be tough to come in and train through your sickness.  Now, we're both sick so like my instructor says in his announcements, "stay your sick asses home!'