BJJ Winterthur Team

Based on the experience of 40 of stablished fighters and Jiu-Jitsu instructors, Gracie Magazine puts together a goal plan of the most daring kind for the unconditional Jiu-Jitusu lover:

(GRACIE Magazine, May 2007)

1. Like Jiu-Jitsu.
2. Love Jiu-Jitsu.
3. Respect Jiu-Jitsu.

4. Learn to apply the right amount of force and technique, so as to fight as long as you can without tiring.
5. Learn that the belt is not the only objective but the result of effort and learning. One whose only objective is to get the new belt limits one's own potential, which is always enormous and unknown. Rather than focus on that, worry about developing technical aspects of the fight.
6. Know the entire program of basic classes inside out and back to front.
7. Study self-defense techniques in depth, to the point of being a master. Do you want to be the kind of black belt that despairs at just having to get out of a basic choke?
8. Have a grueling training session with your own master.
9. Make several close friends at the gym.
10. Dispute a championship and return home with the gold medal.
11. Dispute the open-weight category.
12. Realize that deep, deep down, points and the clock do not exist, while nothing is more real than the three little taps.
13. Participate in a seminar conducted by your greatest idol.
14. Learn to speak Portuguese, the original language of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
15. Apply a flying armbar during a fight. Or at least try.
16. Fight in a World Championship.
17. Invent a move – be it by chance, intuition or full consciousness.
18. Give the move you invented an original name, like "the flying butterfly", "get-the-sucker", "gogoplata", or "fireball" for example.
19. Try out a variety of different diets until you discover two or three that really work to stimulate your body, before during and after competitions.