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Surprising Myself
I did it! It has been a long time coming, but I finally mustered up enough courage to enter my first Gi competition on the weekend and I did much better than I expected. I wasn’t exactly prepared – I...
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BJJ Girl Problems
I love this post on BJJStyle.com – hair, bruises, period woes YES! But it was point no. 1 I found myself referencing on the tube ride home from a party tonight. Making small talk with a random guy,...
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Meet Marie
I came away from my long weekend in Strasbourg with another girl-crush – I have these frequently in BJJ. There are so many awesome women in this sport helping to enrich the experience for the rest of...
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Time In Malta (take me back!)
Arriving at Gatwick Airport to see rain bucketing down made me want to get right back on a plane to Malta! I had such an amazing week connecting with family in the village where my dad spent his early...
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Going ‘No Poo’ (not what you’re thinking)
“There is no way I could do it” – that was my initial reaction to this article about giving up shampoo. Nice in theory, but when your hair is a matted, sweaty mess a good 2-4 times a week after BJJ...
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BJJ Globetrotters Fall Camp
Number of days spent in Copenhagen: Seven, longer than my first visit. Sights seen: Well.. a hostel, a gym, Christiania at night (just spectating mum) and Old Carlsberg Brewery at night. Yeah, that’s...
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So, Have You Ever Tried BJJ?
What led you to take your first BJJ class? I stumbled into mine accidentally. I rocked up to my gym in Melbourne for my usual kickboxing session, but I had read the timetable wrong. “There’s no...
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Oh, hey there
Stuck between tube stops due to a signal failure on the district line… what a perfect opportunity to play catch up on the blog! Belated Happy New Year – I made a simple BJJ related resolution, and I am...
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Where have you been?!
I swear if one more person asked me that at the gym the other night I may have actually successfully taken them down – I ONLY TOOK ONE WEEK OFF GUYS! But ok, I have had to ditch the...
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Working at NAGA UK
I got a new perspective on BJJ this weekend – from behind a scoring table at the North American Grappling Association’s (NAGA) UK championship. A fellow jits girl recruited me to be a ring coordinator...
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Second stripe happened!
It’s been a long time coming, a LONG time going by the “usual” white belt journey depending on how you look at it.. but I’ve finally earned myself a second stripe!! It’s a big deal – huge – because...
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Would you wear this while you roll?
So the RollTec Rashguard went live on Kickstarter today; “the world’s first wearable technology made for grapplers.” What do you think? For me, I think wearing a rashguard with a sensor in it when I...
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30 days of fitness – part 2
“How long now until you’re at the beach?” My flatmate Viktor doesn’t read my blog but he knows ALL about my fitness challenge – mostly due to all the extra washing I’ve been doing. 20 days to go! I’ve...
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How I met my boyfriend
I’ve never written a post about it, but when Aftab put the call out for stories of “finding love whilst travelling” I thought why not tell the tale – nice and succinctly. :) It’s at the below link...
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It’s grading season once again
You know it’s the season for pretty coloured belts and shiny new stripes when your social feeds blow up with photos of said belts and stripes, and heartfelt posts about the BJJ ‘journey’, amazing...
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My first two months in Strasbourg
Wow, my first two months in Strasbourg have FLOWN! It’s amazing how settled you can become in eight weeks… London? Where? Did I actually live there for three years? Really?? Although, when I headed...
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I have had two dentist-made sports mouthguards in the six years I have been training jiu jitsu (on and off), and I rated them pretty highly. Just knowing they were a custom fit, and by someone who knew...
View ArticleI got my freakin’ blue belt!
It was completely out of the ‘blue’ and almost three months later, I still can’t believe it really. Around this time last year I hurt my back on a trip to London and wasn’t training – or very...
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