Fellowship Jiu-Jitsu Sarasota

If self defense is a priority for you (and it should be), you must train with a firearm. Fi****ms are the great equalizer, which allows someone with the most severe physical disadvantages to defeat much greater physical threats. Jiu-Jitsu skill also allows the weaker individual to overcome a much bigger and stronger threat, but not to the same degree as competence with a firearm. It also takes more time. If you care about self defense and realize you also need to train with a firearm but guns make you uncomfortable or you don't know where to get started, send a DM to Zeus Tank. He is the best in the Sarasota-Bradenton area and does an incredible job at not only being a great technical instructor, but getting beginners comfortable around fi****ms and teaching them fi****ms safety

Guard your promotion standards religiously because they are incredibly important to your academy culture and students. You should also consult other skilled black belts you are close with about the students you promote to ensure you don't stray from your own standards

Being a good training partner is more important than anything else

1. Prioritize your training partner's safety over your desire to win an exchange
2. Tap early and often
3. When you become an upper belt, give back to the white belts

Beginners! Learn to conquer your ego early. You will not only progress significantly faster, you will become a better training partner and more people will want to roll with you. Don't just apply this to jiu-jitsu either. Apply ut to every domain in your life

We do not tolerate disrespect towards parents from our students. No one will love a child, want them to succeed, and invest as much energy into them as their mother and father. And in order for a parent's positive influence to be maximally effective, their kids must respect them. That's why we make our kids bow to their parents at the end of class instead of their instructors

Do not let your child engage in negative self talk. If they aren't corrected when they say things like "I can't" out loud when attempting something difficult, this becomes their default belief whenever they're presented with a difficult obstacle. Success in life requires persistence through repeated failures, and without self belief that you can overcome those failures success is not possible. Self reflection over one's errors and shortcomings is also necessary for a child to engage in for success, but that self reflection must be done through a frame of "I will learn and improve. I am capable of being great"

Don't let your kids give up when things become hard and don't let them say things that make them weak