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These kids have been making a lot of progress lately. We had some well deserved level-ups last night!
09/02/2026

These kids have been making a lot of progress lately. We had some well deserved level-ups last night!

Future Winner and self-approved zoning official, Chet, reports that comfort has submitted plans for continued expansion....
09/02/2026

Future Winner and self-approved zoning official, Chet, reports that comfort has submitted plans for continued expansion.

City planners say several long-standing plans for self-improvement are directly in the path of the proposed development.

Free trial link in bio.

09/02/2026

Tuesday Night Takedowns!

He’s ready for something different, provided nothing has to change.
08/31/2026

He’s ready for something different, provided nothing has to change.

JOIN THE RESISTANCE!Your drilling partner does not need to read your mind to know what you are about to do.The technique...
08/29/2026

JOIN THE RESISTANCE!

Your drilling partner does not need to read your mind to know what you are about to do.

The technique has already been prescribed. They know which grip you want, where you want to move, and when you are going to start.

At 100 percent resistance, that advanced knowledge makes stopping one particular technique relatively easy.

If we are drilling a knee cut, they can prevent the grip, build their frame before we move, or change their posture so the knee cut no longer makes sense.

At zero resistance, we have the opposite problem.

We may complete the pass, but if our partner has no structure, we might have to hold them up just to perform it.

At that point, why use a knee cut at all?

Why not simply walk around their guard?

Neither extreme gives us a particularly useful problem to solve.

We sometimes try to correct this with percentages.

"Give me 30 percent..." "Give me 50 percent..."

But my 50 percent may be very different from yours.

The percentage matters less than what we want the repetition to teach us.

Someone learning a technique for the first time may need enough freedom to find where their hands and feet belong.

Someone more experienced may want their partner to rebuild a frame, turn their hips, or create the next logical problem.

Both kinds of practice can be useful.

They are simply asking different questions.

The technique may be basic or advanced. We may be seeing it for the first time or returning to it for the thousandth.

Either way, useful resistance is somewhere between zero and 100 percent.

When we are the person being drilled on, it is not our job to quietly decide how difficult the repetition should be.

Sometimes that means enough resistance to challenge a competitor training for an upcoming tournament. Sometimes it means just enough to let a newbie figure out what the heck they are even doing.

Enough to make the technique necessary, but never so much that it becomes impossible.

See you on the mats.

Sometimes I cannot get the grip I should have for a specific move in jiu jitsu.When that happens, I occasionally make wh...
08/15/2026

Sometimes I cannot get the grip I should have for a specific move in jiu jitsu.

When that happens, I occasionally make what seems like a reasonable decision.

“Well, I’ll just try to do the move without it.”

A few seconds later, I am lying on my back in mount while my training partner asks how I ended up there.

Fair question.

I knew where the grip was supposed to go. Maybe the problem wasn’t that I could not get it. Maybe the problem was that I did not understand what it was supposed to do.

The grip may have been controlling my training partner’s posture, protecting my balance, or preventing them from posting on the mat.

When I continued without it, I did not simply skip a step. I removed one of the conditions that made the rest of the movement possible.

That does not mean I needed that exact grip. Another grip, a change in body position, or a different angle may have solved the same problem.

The better question is:

“What job was that grip doing?”

Trying the move without it may be exactly how I discover the answer.

People rarely forget what they discover for themselves.

Especially when the discovery ends with someone sitting on their chest.

You might even make the move work by pulling harder and squeezing tighter. But sometimes strength can keep a bad idea alive long enough to make it look like a good one.

Sometimes bad ideas deserve a second chance.

Don’t come crying to me, though, when it doesn’t work a third, fourth, or tenth time.

That’s just stubbornness.

Every beginner eventually asks:“Coach… what if they…?”What if they stand up?What if they grab my sleeve?What if they don...
07/31/2026

Every beginner eventually asks:

“Coach… what if they…?”

What if they stand up?

What if they grab my sleeve?

What if they don’t let me get the underhook?

Let’s be real, they’re going to do something.

That’s kind of their job.

The more you train, the more you realize there isn’t an answer for every possible “what if.”

There can’t be.

Your training partner is doing jiu jitsu too.

While you’re reacting to them…

They’re reacting to you.

So, instead of trying to solve every future problem before the round even starts…

Maybe ask a different question.

“Now that the position changed… what if I?”

What if I change the angle?

What if I let go of this grip?

What if I stop trying to force this pass?

What if there’s another way?

Sometimes that’s all a more playful approach really is.

Less intensity.

Less trying to prove your first idea was the right one.

A little more curiosity about what the position is giving you now.

The interesting part of jiu jitsu isn’t when everything goes according to plan.

It’s what you do five seconds after the plan falls apart.

Coming in a little late, but 608 Jiu Jitsu brought a small team to the Fuji BJJ Madison Open a couple weeks back and we ...
07/29/2026

Coming in a little late, but 608 Jiu Jitsu brought a small team to the Fuji BJJ Madison Open a couple weeks back and we came back with some new hardware including some gold, silver, and bronze medals.

We also took home the 3rd place for best adult academy (pretty great for the size of the team we had competing), and 1st place for best association!

I’m really proud of our team, the hard work they put in, and the way they represented themselves and the team whether they won or lost.

06/07/2026

Jiu jitsu for the win.

It’s not you, bro…
05/29/2026

It’s not you, bro…

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11 Glaciers Edge Square
Cross Plains, WI
53528

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Monday 4:30pm - 8pm
Tuesday 4:30pm - 8pm
Thursday 4:30pm - 8pm

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