Most leadership advice is written for people who already have authority. Jiu-Jitsu doesn’t work that way. On the mat, nobody has to listen to you. Your partner can resist, stall, ignore your setup, or shut you down completely, and rank alone won’t fix it. That’s what makes a training room one of the better leadership…
Most of the people who walk into our academy already do something physical. They ride at Bent Creek, run the trails at DuPont, climb at Rumbling Bald, paddle the French Broad, or hike enough of Pisgah in a season to have opinions about which trailhead parking lot is worst. They’re not looking for a workout….
Most people email or call us two or three times before they actually show up. That’s normal. Walking into a room full of strangers who know how to choke you is a strange thing to volunteer for, and the questions people ask beforehand are almost always the same five. Here they are, answered the way…
