
Advice For Blue Belts by Zach Jeffrey
"Confidence, conditioning, composure..." Another short installment where our friend Zach of Black Belt Wood Craft gives his advice belt rank by belt rank from his black belt perspective. A usual seg...
12 Aug 20215min

And... NEW Martial Arts Academy!
I sit down, with the usual help from my guy Paulie, to talk with Gus and Nakita Kratzke who are opening the new Burnville Martial Arts Academy here in Minnesota. They both are steeped in a long histo...
9 Aug 20211h 29min

Advice For White Belts by Zach Jeffrey
"How you do small things is how you do all things." When I sat down with Zach I completely forgot to ask him what advice he, as a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Blackbelt and BJJ instructor, would give to peopl...
1 Aug 20213min

Matside Musing: One Rise, All Rise by Jon Grilz
Jon talks about some of the realities of the belt-rank system in Jiu Jitsu that you may being wondering about, or have in the past. Check out his podcasts: The Bloody Disgusting Podcast, Creepy: A H...
22 Juli 20215min

Matside Musing: The Gold Nugget Concept by Zach Jeffrey
Zach Jeffrey is a Black Belt in Brazillian JiuJitsu, a BJJ coach, and a renaissance man. He talks about the "gold nugget" concept and provokes the question; what is your favorite class and why is tha...
15 Juli 20214min

Porrada/Teamigos Collab w/Vince LaPelusa
I sit down to talk tea AND Jiujitsu (and movies and stuff) with my friend and one-round-ever training partner, Vince Lapelusa, of the Teamigos Podcast and www.freshsteeps.com and @freshsteeps This was...
13 Juli 20212h 9min

Matside Musing: 1 Stripe Blue Belt
The first of hopefully a regular new series, Matside Musings. These will be short, hopefully insightful messages about a specific topic from, hopefully, people other than me, Matt. As a test run, th...
8 Juli 20214min

Muzzle Thumping with Linsey Williams
A conversation with MMA fighter, BJJ competitor, and soldier, Linsey Williams. What's it like to be a successful fighter, brown belt in BJJ... and train combatives in the army? Well, we talk about it...
5 Juli 20211h 17min



















