Since last count, I have written over 30 more blog posts for Inverted Gear. We also passed 200 White Belt Wednesday video. Below is a list of everything I’ve written, broken down by theme.
Daniel Bertina interviewed me for a short bio you can read here: Meet the Pandas – Biomechanical Jiu-Jitsu with Nerd Power – Matt ‘Aesopian’ Kirtley. I wrote about my experiences after 5 Years at Black Belt and I’m due to write about my sixth year any time now.
FRC, Stretching, and Mobility
- Laying the Groundwork for a Mobility Practice [Part 1]
- Myth Busting Stretching [Part 2]
- Starting a Daily Mobility Practice: Controlled Articular Rotations [Part 3]
These are a continuation of what I started in Jiu-Jitsu Will Destroy You If You Let It: How I Finally Started Fixing My Broken Body and Functional Range Conditioning and Kinstretch from the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Perspective. In the time since I wrote the original two posts, I have obtained the Functional Range Assessment certification.
Teaching and Learning Methods
- ⭐ The 4 Stages of Learning
- ⭐ The Four Stages of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- My Rules as an Instructor
- My Personal Code of Ethics as an Instructor
- How to Maximize Learning Potential Every Class
- Accelerate Your Learning by Turning Drills into Games
- 10,000 Hours is Not a Magic Number
- Get More Gains Out of Open Mat
- How to Evaluate a New Technique
- 10 Steps to Adding Unorthodox Techniques to Your Game
- Real Learning is Not All Smiles
- 5 Tips for New Instructors
Mindset
- ⭐ The “Thinking 99 Moves Ahead” Myth
- Don’t Sabotage Yourself
- Game Sense in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- The Right and Wrong Way to Think About Belts
- 3 Common Pitfalls As You Move Up the Ranks
- The Balancing of Opposites
- 5 Hard Truths About Training You Need to Hear
How To Guides
- ⭐ 10 Things to Stop Doing at BJJ (A Picture Guide)
- A Visual Guide to Hand-to-Hand Grips in BJJ
- 5 Things Every White Belt Must Learn Before Blue Belt
- [Video] Solo Drills: Bridging and Sit Outs
- How to Wash, Dry, and Shrink (or Not Shrink) Your Gis
- How to: Tie Your BJJ Belt (Now with the Power of GIFs!)