DEVOTION JIU JITSU

The wait is over. The hoodie is LIVE! ORDER YOURS HERE

Hoodie drop goes live on our website at 9am EST tomorrow! Members got theirs tonight. This is my personal favorite piece of apparel from Devotion-and the first one ever featuring Paul’s artwork. Set your alarms, we expect these to move quickly.

Cold AM training and then shipping work! Your soap orders are going out today!

5:00 rounds 2:00 rest from 8pm to Midnight. Madness. Happy New Year Ultras!

HAPPENING NOW: MIDNIGHT MASS

Purify the Unclean Devotion Black Soap available now! All Natural. Organic. Handmade. Order HERE

Video shoot and no-gi class combined tonight.

“The Yoga of Action” excerpt from article by Paul W. In Devotion Magazine Issue 4 available HERE Watch the full video on our YouTube

Coach Paul W. working with Mary, one of Devotion’s newest white belts.

The few, the proud, the crew that froze their feet off on the icy mats this morning 🥶

Yoga for the Kali Yuga

In this new video, Devotion Co-founder Paul W. reads his article “the Yoga of Action,” from Devotion magazine issue 4. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel and share this with your friends! https://youtu.be/X8Mkl-q-G88

9° at class time. Welcome to extreme cold weather training at Devotion Jiu-Jitsu

Sweet guard passing

RIP Orlando Sanchez 2015 ADCC 🥇

The constant “gi vs. no gi” argument is at this point a pretty desiccated and rotting horse in Jiu Jitsu. There’s absolutely a difference between the two in both technicality/options as well as pacing/speed, but a good grappler is a good grappler. Two local examples are our co-founder Matthias, who hasn’t competed no gi since he was a white belt, winning no gi worlds. Another local black belt is top ten in the world in his age bracket no gi…he trains almost entirely in the gi as well. In our circle, training in the gi is done slightly more often, but we generally use “prison rules,” that is, all submissions are allowed. I find a lot of newer people like no gi because it is much less complex, and those with speed and strength can often pair that with a few techniques and be relatively dangerous on the mats for their experience level. The gi is daunting - grip fighting, lapel and collar chokes, strange esoteric non-Euclidean guard styles, having to LEARN TO TIE YOUR BELT and other eldritch horrors abound. At day’s end, gi specialists are usually better at the transition to no gi than vice versa. For all the people who will say “no gi is more realistic in a street fight…” When was the last time you fought a sweaty guy in a rash guard with short shorts on? Might want a lifestyle change or quit frequenting those kinda bars.

Not neglecting our guard passing.

No better way to start a week than on the mats with your friends

Icy morning of long stepping