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Author Archives: Josh Vogel

Nice testimonial for Balance Studios on Yelp!

Special thanks to Jooyoung Lee for sharing his positive experience with Balance studios on Yelp. Thanks! Here’s the review: “The sign at the front entrance really captures the spirit of this place: “Please leave your shoes and ego at the door.” This is an amazing place to learn BJJ.  As a beginner, I was impressed [...]

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Just train!

Jiujitsu is pretty amazing. To one person it can be a sport, to another a means of defending oneself. To another it is an art form and someone else might see it as a way to keep in shape. You can break it all down to the most microscopic pieces imaginable and study it like [...]

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A quick clip of a Guard pass I’ve been playing with….

Here’s a pass that I’ve been working on for a while. I filmed it pretty spur of the moment at our Balance hq in Philadelphia, so please excuse the quality, but I hope you enjoy and if you have any comments; please let me know.

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Using Video to take notes and improve your Bjj

In my previous post about Note taking I made mention of watching footage of competition and using that for your note taking; I would like to go into that a bit more in this article. There are a ton of resources available for study when looking for competition footage. There are youtube.com and dailymotion.com, of [...]

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Taking notes in Brazilian Jiu-JItsu

I’m a big fan of taking notes with pretty much everything that I am interested in learning about, whether it’s grappling, how the body works, a book that I’m reading or learning how to cook. That’s how I find that I learn best, writing stuff down, thinking about stuff, analyzing the “whys” of things. I [...]

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