Champions

Stripes and belts are worth celebrating, but your belt cannot show everything you are learning. Here is how to recognize progress between promotions.

How hard should kids try when drilling jiu jitsu? Learn how both partners can practice with useful resistance, communicate, and work through discomfort.

Comparison is easy, but it may not tell you much about your own progress. Sometimes the best way to learn is to try first and see what you already know.

Your partner knows jiu jitsu too. What happens when you try a move can help you figure out what to do next.

Sometimes kids need more than another explanation. They need to trust what they already know, keep trying, and remember there is still time to get better.

Winning is fun, but practice is where kids can experiment, take chances, and work on the parts of jiu jitsu that still need improvement.

Both children have a job during jiu jitsu drilling. Useful resistance helps them practice safely and learn together.

A frame gives your body a strong shape that helps protect your space.

Tapping means stop. It is how training partners keep each other safe and keep learning.