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Gameness BJJ Belts Compared: Lightweight vs Standard vs Pro Series (Which Is Right for You?)

Lightweight vs Standard vs Pro Series—find the right Gameness BJJ belt for competition, training, or long-term progress and durability.

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Choosing the Right Gameness Gi: Your Ideal Jiu Jitsu Uniform Guide

Choosing a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gi isn’t just about appearance—it’s about weight, feel, durability, and purpose. Gameness equips athletes at every level with gis designed for specific training goals.

Use this as a resource when examining the actual GSM (grams per square meter) of each Gameness gi offering. This information will help you choose the gi that fits your training style best. You can find your perfect BJJ gi with this guide from Gameness today!

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10 Tips To Recruit 10 New Students For Your Gym

The most common question we are asked when it comes to owning a martial arts school is, “How can we get more new students?” School owners of all sizes are looking for new members.

5 Things to Focus on When Teaching BJJ to Children

Most parents who send their children to martial art classes usually have very little experience in the martial arts themselves. This means that the first thing that comes to mind for them is ‘is this safe for my child?’

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3 Ways to Avoid Injury

Below is just some friendly advice. Each suggestion varies from case to case, but if you speak to a great number of people in jiu-jitsu, they will tell you that their injuries occurred because of these reasons.

Top 4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Jiu-Jitsu Class Regularly

Technique does not develop itself. Neither is it downloaded into your brain and muscles when you practice it only five times. Repetition is the key to your brain and body remembering anything. There have been studies stating that to be an expert in any field, you must dedicate one thousand hours to it.

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5 Reasons Why BJJ Is So Addictive

No one can deny the gratifying results that BJJ produces for its practitioners. At first, people hesitate because they are either uncomfortable with the full contact factor or they don’t believe it will really help them get in shape.

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5 Old School Rules of BJJ

Like them or not, these rules are out there. Not every gym abides by all of them, but you may find traces of at least one of these rules in your academy.

Is Money an Issue in BJJ?

In this world, money is the means to most things and Jiu-Jitsu is not an exception. You need money to train and jiu-jitsu is not particularly cheap, especially for younger practitioners and students.

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How Often Should I Compete?

The biggest question associated with tournaments is how often one should compete. Thought processes range from one extreme to the other, such as “it is not necessary to ever compete in your life” or “perhaps once is good, just to know what it feels like,” to “if you don’t compete you’ll never get your next belt.” So, what is the truth of the matter?

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How Necessary is it to Compete in BJJ?

On one hand, we have practitioners who argue that competitions are necessary for improvement and awarding your next belt, whatever belt that may be. On the other side, you have people who argue that although competitions can help your game, they are not essential to your jiu-jitsu journey. So what is the truth?