Competition is something that’s always been a part of my life… I started playing Little League baseball as a kid, and even though I was terrible at it, I liked being on a team and trying to improve. I moved on to football (American), and while I wasn’t terrible at it, it also wasn’t something […]
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One of the problems I face as an instructor is when a person is brand new to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu there is a lot of info I need to take in on day one. Teaching a person new movements, techniques, and the desired goals and outcomes they should be hunting for can be overwhelming. This
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Jiu Jitsu is the focus of the article but…dogs amirite?!!?! As I have written about in other articles on this page, I found Jiu Jitsu at a time when I was pretty unhappy. I was overweight, had little direction in my life, and lacked motivation to change any of it for the better. Jiu Jitsu
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Hi! My name is Ramses and I’m the owner and head coach of Living Art Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Willowbrook, IL. I’ve been training Jiu Jitsu since 2011, working in the industry since 2012, and teaching professionally since 2019. In my almost 14 years of experience in the sport, I’ve heard a variety of reasons
Never Too Late for Jiu Jitsu: Overcoming Age & Fitness Barriers Read More »
Throughout my career as a martial artist I’ve gotten many different looks at how safety is handled at a variety of Jiu Jitsu schools and other martial arts. Sadly, I have far more personal experience with bad or VERY bad examples on the topic (chiefly from the Jiu Jitsu school I spent my formative years
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When Living Art BJJ opened its doors in June of 2019, I had very little directly relevant experience for the job I signed myself up for. I was less worried about my ability to teach adults (though many lessons and adjustments have been made to that process too), but I was definitely jumping into the
3 LESSONS I’VE LEARNED AS A KIDS BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU TEACHER Read More »
By Ramses Bugarin Click here to book free trial! Since our opening in June 2019, I have been teaching kids classes for ages 4 – 12 and it’s been an awesome experience for me. When I started out, I had almost zero experience teaching children and what I did have was only adjacently relevant (I
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