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How your journey through BJJ can intersect with and is helped by stoicism, with Adisa Banjoko. It gets pretty personal as we go beyond the sound bites of Stoicism and dig into the actual practices you can use to develop the four virtues of Stoicism, namely wisdom, discipline, justice and courage.

Along the way, we also tackle the importance of character in jiu-jitsu, ...


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In episode 423 of The Strenuous Life Podcast I break down the telltale toxic traits of BJJ schools that you should avoid like the plague when you’re looking for a place to train.

I’ll qualify my choice of red flags by quoting former NYC mayor Ed Koch who said, “If you agree with me on nine out of 12...


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I’ve got something new for you…

It’s called “A Turtle Turnover into a HELLISH Pin.” But as we filmed it my friend Ritchie teased me; he said that it should be called  The Macarena on account of the hand position changes.

Fair enough… challenge accepted!  Here’s the Macarena Turnover that you can use in multiple gra...


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Back in the day there was very little formal BJJ instruction.

Rather than train with a blue belt who had learned two mount escapes and had paid a large affiliation fee to a Brazilian blackbelt I decided to find another way.

My solution at the time was to train at the UBC Judo. Unlike most clubs that club spent half the class on newaza (groundwork).

That m...


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The phone call wasn’t unexpected but it was still a giant kick in the balls.

“Stephan… I’m so, so sorry but… your father just died a few minutes ago.”

My father lived three thousand kilometers away and I had been to seen him a week before he died. While we were together I tended to him, consulted with doctors, and ultimately consigned him to palliative ...


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