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[mud-raven]

I am that bitch

[anulumgygis]

Welcome to the new digs. I’ve created a new tumblr as part of a consolidation of my media presence. I’ll be adding things here and there and posting more often. The old Freedom City tumblr will remain active at johnirathomas.tumblr.com, but johnirathomas.com will point here. I’ll keep you up to date on exciting projects like, well…

There’s this handsome devil, out just before Thanksgiving, 2023. It’s the first in the Candle Light Press Classical line. Kulseth and Larmour draw a line connecting modern Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and ancient pankration fighting. It may be the first such book written by at least one person who’s been in a proper fight or three. I served as editor and saw this work through production. It’s an incredibly interesting work and I hope you’ll check it out.

Here’s their blurb:

What has Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to do with the Ancient Greeks? A lot, according to Joshua Kulseth and David Larmour, investigating the connections between the Greek pankration and contemporary BJJ and MMA. They argue that today's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gyms, training, and competitions offer the closest modern analogy to Ancient Greek wrestlers and pankratiasts and to the ideals of Greek agonism embodied in the Olympic Games.

Their book, Agony: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the Greeks combines Kulseth's first-person narrative of experience in combat sports with Larmour's expertise in ancient Greek athletics, literature and mythology, and is illustrated by original artwork by Jeremy Smith.

When we struggle today for self-improvement or victory in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts, the ancient Greeks walk among us-not only the ordinary citizens of Athens or Sparta doing their daily training in the local palaestra, but also famous athletes like Milo and Arrichion, heroes of myth like Odysseus and Heracles, poets like Pindar and Sophocles, and even gods like Zeus and Prometheus.

The ISBN is 978-0989537155 and is available or orderable anywhere books are sold.

[jillianspina]

1st competition in the books 🥉 I would like to thank my professor and all my teammates at ZR Team Raleigh believing in me 💚🙏 Also, thanks to ZR Team NC and ZR Team Apex family for cheering me on 🙌 Still a lot more to learn, but I’m getting there!!

[easytolovehardtokill]

Might be getting addicted to Brazilian Jiujitsu

[jiujitsunews]

Brazilian jiu-jitsu drills will help you to build an unpassable guard. Use these guard drills to develop mobility and flexibility. Never Get Your BJJ Guard Passed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gXBjGy0uE

[fistfullofboomstick]

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The first submission you learn from Williams guard together with the triangle, is this far side arm bar 💪🔪👌.⠀ ⠀ #armbar #jiujitsutechnique #williamsguard #johlor80 #bjjtechnique #bjjathlete #jiujitsu #bjjsubmissions #bjjarmbar #trainingoutside #martialartsathlete #tatamifightwear #bjjgi (på/i Umeå, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBybMkyJ49W/?igshid=1h178zvnhbf7o

[evildeadgunnut101]

#bjj #bjjlifestyle #bjjathlete #bjjjourney (at WSG Academy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B44xrwEp0AS/?igshid=16n2qxzc8jhhj

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