I was thinking the other day about how a certain percentage of BJJ practitioners end up changing schools. There are a handful of reasons why that happens. It’s not an everyday occurence though.

We’ve touched on how many people have changed their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy in older BJJ Polls, but today’s poll is a little different twist. For many of us where we started our BJJ journey is a bit like being born – you look back and you have the parents you do because you have the parents you have! Many of us did not do a ton of research before beginning BJJ. We just walked in to the nearest (or only) school and got hooked. And so there we are.

But at some point in our BJJ careers, we have the chance and information to reflect and see that there might be more BJJ around than we knew about, and opportunities for different or better training environments. As such, what about you? If you could turn back time and start training jiu-jitsu somewhere else, would you change things?

updated with video 7-8-2010

On June 26th in Columbia Missouri, the ADFPF held their annual national contest. It had a very good turn out with some outstanding performances. Some of the highlights were as follows:

In an interesting turn of events, Darrell Hoard (275) posted an 1807 raw total at the APC Nationals last weekend to set GPA raw world records, win best raw lifter, and the Champion of Champions Dave Pasanella Memorial Award. It also ranks him 8th on the Powerlifting Watch raw Lifter Rankings. The reason why it is interesting is...