Category: Self Improvement

2 Kinds Of People! It’s a crazy time for sure! The world is divided right now into 2 groups… those that are making resolutions and those that are making fun of them. It’s never a bad idea to think about what you want to achieve, develop a plan, and get started to make it happen. […]

The Truth About Goals and Achievement. There’s an old Steven Seagal movie, “Marked For Death.” What can I say, I’m a lifelong martial artist so I’ve watched all kinds of martial arts movies. The movie joined the rest of Seagal’s movies in making Aikido look both cool and effective. In the real world let’s just […]

It feels awesome to set challenging goals and nail them! You know how good it feels to set your sights on a goal and then achieve it. It’s empowering and invigorating. Hitting goals and overcoming challenges is not just a matter of chance. Goal-setting is an important life skill that serves everyone and is especially […]

Often we watch an athlete perform at the highest level on ‘game’ day. We don’t see or think about the massive effort that’s occurred behind the scenes day after day for so many years. No success in anything happens without persistent effort over long periods of time. Everyone… every man, woman, and child have incredible potential within […]

Jiu Jitsu is more than a type of fighting. It’s an art the teaches you that you can overcome challenges that others find insurmountable. It does this through experience not reading about positive mindsets. As you conquer each new challenge you develop a new confidence that allows you to tackle harder things on and off […]

This is a great story about overcoming tragedy through martial arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training offers so many benefits for people beyond self defense. Training helps people improve their lives by helping them become more confident, developing positive habits, getting in shape, and getting to hang out with great people. This […]

Martial Arts Mindset and Achievement It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. This one is really worth far more. The elephant is tied with a piece of rope that it could easily break. It has been conditioned since he was young to think that he’s stuck and can’t get away… so he […]

How To Develop Mental Toughness and Confidence In Kids. It’s time to talk about another core tenet of martial arts. In many ways, this tenet brings all the other tenets together – and it explains why kids who study martial arts like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu achieve more at home, in school, in other sports, and […]

Martial Arts Helps Kids Develop Coordination and Athleticism… Even If They Aren’t Naturally Athletic At All! Kids come in all shapes, sizes, and attributes. Some kids seem to be born with natural grace and athletic ability. Other kids struggle with physical coordination and athletics. Anything they achieve in terms of physical fitness requires more work […]

Texarkana Jiu Jitsu’s Kids Martial Arts Program Helps Kids Improve Attention, Focus, and Memory. Focus and memorization go hand in hand. In a past blog post, I talked about how studying martial arts helps kids focus and behave better in the classroom. Today, I want to tell you how it can improve your child’s memory, […]

5 Key Core Tenets of Martial Arts at Texarkana Jiu Jitsu Martial arts instructors talk about core tenets, things that dictate our behavior inside and outside of class. These are things that we teach our students. Their value goes far beyond martial arts instruction. In other words, these are life skills. There are five core […]

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to meet Larry Winget and hear him give a presentation on success and achievement. If you haven’t heard of him, he is an author (a 5 time New York Times/Wall Street Journal bestselling author), speaker, and television personality. (A&E’s Big Spender, Fox News, Fox Business, …) Larry Winget […]

Our kids really need to become much more active. So many are significantly overweight and also have poorly developed postural musculature and coordination. These kids are a ticking time bomb for major future health crisis (diabetes, heart disease, …), as well as, extremely high risk of injury and a life of pain. It’s not their […]

We Are Built To Learn and Adapt To Our Obstacles Each Time Becoming A Little Better. Getting past each challenge makes us a little better at the next thing life throws at us. It’s really remarkable how we can always improve. Seneca, the stoic philosopher, on how overcoming challenges is a requirement for happiness. In […]

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Is A Phenomenal Way For Men and Women To Get In Shape Without Going To The Gym Or The Mind-Numbing Task Of Running For Hours.   The less taken and more effective path to getting into shape. There are unique advantages to training in martial arts like Jiu Jitsu. Fitness, losing weight, […]

What’s The Best Way To Get In Shape In Texarkana? The real benefit of training Jiu Jitsu is that you actually have fun just simply following along in class. 👍 You don’t have to go do the mind numbing task of running endless miles or wandering around the gym trying to figure out what to […]

Often something seems impossible until you see someone else doing it then the only challenge is to believe you can also do it. So many adults tell us they want to start Jiu Jitsu but they’re too old or too out of shape.We have people in their 60s training with us. We’ve had so many […]

Jiu Jitsu and Martial Arts may be the “cure” to so many modern problems including fitness, confidence, stress, socialization, and more but what is also true is that the benefits of training carry over into every other part of your life whether you’re a child, teen, man, or woman.  Don’t just go workout at the […]

Adults Get Fit, Reduce Stress, and Are Quickly Amazed At What They Can Really Accomplish. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu offers adults so many different benefits. Most people know it’s a great way to quickly get in shape, but what many don’t know is how it can transform every part of your life. There’s a real value […]

Martial Arts Are A Fun Activity For All Kids! Our kids aren’t getting enough exercise and this dramatically reduces their ability to deal with stress and causes so many problems for them. Their poor diets, heavy media use, and lack of exercise not only damages their physical health, but also devastates their self image often […]

Martial Arts As A Vehicle For Self Improvement. The value of challenging yourself and overcoming what you face is the path to becoming stronger mentally and physically. Unfortunately, growth doesn’t happen sitting on the couch eating chips and watching Netflix. Wait, this does cause growth, just of your waistline! Instead spend a little time every […]

The Path To Improvement, Challenges, and Overcoming Adversity. It’s hard to get started in a new sport, hobby, or habit but it’s often even more difficult to continue to improve in anything as you encounter challenges. At Texarkana Jiu Jitsu, we work with the kids, teens, men, and women that come into our program with […]

Developing Problem Solving Skills Through The Martial Arts. The best way to get good at anything is to do that thing over and over again. The experience of trying to do something that has some degree of challenge helps you (or your child) learn, getting better with repetition over time. One huge benefit of Kid’s […]

Faith In Ourselves, Self Confidence. A lack of confidence is why many people don’t achieve as much as they could, both on and off the mat in life. We are capable of achieving far more than we believe we can achieve. This limiting belief holds so many people back from seeing real success in everything […]

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Self Control, Discipline, Mental Toughness, and Achievement. Jiu Jitsu is about controlling and submitting an opponent by putting them in a position where they are forced to give up or suffer severe consequences. Interesting though that before you ever are able to control your opponent, you learn self control. You develop the […]

What We Achieve Is Largely Dependent On What We Believe About Ourselves. I realize this sounds like an abstract concept that doesn’t apply in our own lives, but bear with me for a moment as I explain. It’s an interesting thing where basically our confidence translates into taking bigger actions that lead to having greater […]

Joe Rogan on an underappreciated value of training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and martial arts. Martial arts like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu are uniquely well suited to help you better manage stress in addition to all the other benefits people get training. We’ve had people lose 100 lbs, turn around mental and physical health problems, and […]

Why Do Some Kids and Adults Excel In School and Competition While Others Struggle To Make Things Happen?   Grit, Mental Toughness and Martial Arts Psychologist Angela Duckworth who literally wrote the book on Grit found that the primary reason people are high achievers in any area was directly related to their level of grit. […]

Seneca, the stoic philosopher, on how overcoming challenges is a requirement for happiness. In the great movie, Fight Club, average people frustrated with their lives of boredom and monotony. They joined a fight club where they would beat each other up so they could feel more alive. They got carried away. Still though… We are […]

Happy Veteran’s Day to everyone that has served and all those that support them!  Hey, this is Marc Hagebusch, 4th Degree Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt, Head Coach of Texarkana Jiu Jitsu, and a proud Veteran of the US Army. This was a picture from my time spent with these great people in the Army […]

Martial Arts have traditionally been associated with lifelong learning with martial artists continually working to improve themselves. Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo, really embodied this idea. Jigoro Kano asked to be buried in his white belt to be remembered as a learner and not a master. This was despite the fact that he was […]

Parents put Kids in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu martial arts classes for different reasons… Some because their child is being picked on or bullied, others because they want their child to be more active (and have discovered that it’s hard to get them to do other sports), others because they want to increase their child’s confidence, […]

Are you concerned that many kids today lack drive and ability to overcome challenges? From Texarkana Jiu Jitsu: Kids learn how to deal with tough challenges in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. They are often put in positions that force them to work, so that things don’t continue to worsen… just like life and that’s why we […]

Can you imagine how different our world would be if all kids learned the values and skills taught in martial arts? Martial artists develop discipline, respect, confidence, focus, fitness, and perseverance. These are characteristics that help everyone succeed at anything that they do in life whether it be in school, at work, in relationships, and […]