Black Belt Chasen Hill and Blue Belt Josh Dyba discuss a certain sub-culture within the Jiu-Jitsu community that may be holding you and your progress back. We dive into some tangents that mention Black Belt Roy Dean, and even schools of thoughts when it comes to belt progression and what the BEST actually means.

Black Belt Chasen Hill and Blue Belt Josh Dyba dive into the topic of different time frames students can realistically go from white belt to blue belt in jiu jitsu.

We discuss the concept of putting your kids in martial arts. We dive into pros and cons, different martial arts, and some school sport sub-topics.

Mark Garcia is our guest star on today’s episode. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Brown Belt and Owner of Double Five - New Braunfels, Austin and I dive into his background with the art and get him to share stories and experiences that have shaped him today.

Maybe you’re going through this, maybe you’ve seen it happen to others, or maybe you’ve been through it. The “Blue Belt Blues”. We discuss this phenomena in this weeks episode. We explain what it is, potential reasons why people get it or don’t get it, and other factors that play parts in this along with some stories of our own.

We discuss our different ideas behind the intensities of rolling and how some rolls differ from others and in what ways specifically. There are constant fluctuations and we discuss all of this and more in our side topics.

BJJ Black Belt Eduardo Avelar joins us this week on the podcast. We talk about his life in Brazil and how his journey came to be, his mindset on certain parameters, and some of the beauties of the sport.

This week, we discuss some of the traits that make a good training partner and what we look for. We also discuss how we can try to become better training partners ourselves and the benefits versus the pitfalls.