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Advice for White, Blue, Purple and Brown Belts

Here’s the complete series I wrote for Inverted Gear on how to make progress from white through to brown belt: Advice for Newbie White Belts and Anxious Blue Belts Getting Through the Blue and Purple...

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Jiu-Jitsu Will Destroy You If You Let It: How I Finally Started Fixing My...

Everyone who does BJJ is eventually plagued with injuries. What’s the solution? While I have no magic bullet, if you do the research and put in the work, you can feel and move better. Here is the best...

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Seminar footage added to Mastering the Crucifix

Have you ever heard of a BJJ instructional suddenly gaining 2 hours of bonus content at no extra cost? Now you have. We’ve added 2 hours of new seminar footage to Mastering the Crucifix. One seminar...

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If you’ve missed me, check Panda Nation

Updates to Aesopian.com has been glacial slow in recent years, but that’s not to say I haven’t been busy. Since the beginning of 2016, I have written over 20 articles for the Inverted Gear blog,...

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Functional Range Conditioning and Kinstretch from the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...

Near the end of 2016, I attended a 2-day Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) seminar at Physical Culture Gym in Largo, FL. You may recall FRC from my big post last year, Jiu-Jitsu Will Destroy You If...

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What Have I Been Up To? Here’s a List

Since last count, I have written over 30 more blog posts for Inverted Gear. We also passed 200 White Belt Wednesday video. Below is a list of everything I’ve written, broken down by theme. Daniel...

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Confronting the Problem of Sexual Harassment and Coercion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Years ago, I had a pop up contact form in the corner of my website that let visitors ask me anything. Most of the time, I got the typical “How do I escape side control?” and “What BJJ workouts can I...

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Aesopian’s 2018 Round Up

It’s that time again where I to gather up all my recent work from around the web and compile it into a blog post! (The last two updates like this are here and here.) Updates on Aesopian.com are slower...

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Are you being sexually harassed or coerced at your martial arts school? Know...

We would hope martial artists would honor a person’s boundaries and autonomy, as those are the basis of any self defense philosophy, but martial arts instructors and students can be perpetrators...

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Are You in a Jiu-Jitsu Cult?

Stephan Kesting and I finally sat down to talk after all these years to talk about martial arts cults and sports science. Listen to our episode of The Strenuous Life Podcast or watch on YouTube. Show...

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