By day I parade around as a Bjj Black Belt named Chewy.
Joined October 2012
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13 Oct 2025
Being disciplined isn’t about a rigid attachment to a plan. It’s about being flexible. When life happens and your plans go to hell (which they will), you gotta find a way to make it happen.
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BJJ coaches who bark at you to “leave your ego at the door” usually have the biggest egos in the room.
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I’ve seen it so many times. Coach says chill and leave your ego at the door. Then throws a fit when someone gets the better of them.
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19 Oct 2024
Remarkable outcomes are usually the result of unremarkable actions chained together with long term consistency. Achieving success or being skilled at something doesn’t look sexy until it’s attained.
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5 Sep 2024
The way you cheer people on, or cut them down, says a lot more about you than it does anyone else.
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11 Jun 2024
In my bearded opinion, it’s better to find 100 ways to use 1 technique you’ve mastered, rather than finding 1 way to use 100 techniques you haven’t.
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7 May 2024
If you want to be aggressive with submissions or any offensive techniques.
Don’t overlook developing your defense and escapes from bad positions.
It’s hard to give 100% to an attack if you’re hamstrung by the fear of “what if this fails” lurking in the back of your head.
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3 May 2024
You push yourself closer to failure by the fear of it.
What you think is going to happen vs what actually happens when you fail almost never line up.
Just an idea to chew on.
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23 Nov 2023
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you celebrating! May you eat enough to bump up a weight class. And if for some reason you feel guilty about eating so much, just remind yourself you’re improving your top pressure for that open mat at your gym tomorrow.
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18 Nov 2023
A lesson from grappling I apply to everything: Be willing to do the work when nobody is watching, when nobody cares and when you feel like you’re not making progress. There’s usually a reward on the other side of this struggle, but you won’t earn it if you quit.
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20 Sep 2023
Quantity can create quality. Everything mastered is usually built on the back of failed attempts. In BJJ your technical ability is determined in a big way by your willingness to attempt, fail and respond to the feedback.
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4 Sep 2023
Your life isn’t a practice round to get you warmed up for the real one. It’s the only round you get. So be disciplined and push yourself to give it everything you’ve got while there’s still time on the clock.
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Good training can be competitive, but that doesn’t make it a competition. No one cares about your gym record.
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Your success with the big things is usually decided by how well you can obsess over the little things.
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3 Aug 2023
Self-criticism is a beautiful thing, unless it leads to self-destruction.
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1 Aug 2023
Almost everyone can become skilled at BJJ. But that doesn’t mean that BJJ is for everyone.
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25 Jul 2023
So many people compete fearful that they have something to lose. I’ve been there, I get it. But if this is you, it’s important to remind yourself that you have nothing to lose. . . you haven’t won anything yet.
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