"There is no loss for those who came to win."~~Master Roberto Traven

"Quit talkin' and sign a waiver."~Roberto Traven Black Belt, Chip Coffey

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When you get rid of the wrong people and things in your life, RIGHT things begin to happen!!

Jacksonville FL is running a HUGE http://ping.fm/iQuFa Groupon campaign Mon-Wed...tell your friends, their friends and their friends, friends!

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."~~John F. Kennedy

BJJ Workshop today with the best instructor in the world, with some of the finest people in the world, in the greatest country in the world. I dig my world!!

Team Traven Time......"Jiu-Jitsu Up" people!!

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."~~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."~Mark Twain

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there."~~C.S. Lewis

"Skill to do comes of doing."~Longfellow

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."~~Mark Twain

Big ups to our JaxBJJ Instructors in BJJ, KJ, MT and ILKB: Nate, Kohl, Marc, Mirna, Brian, Nelson, Jeff, Phil, Shegog, Spenser, Ernie, Mark, our assistant instructors and our Leaders......this is what makes JaxBJJ awesome! Thank you guys!!

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."~~Confucius

I Love Will Rodgers! Here is one of his better nuggets of wisdom: "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

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"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"~~Vince Lombardi

Traven Seminar is filling up....register online. http://ping.fm/GWlAI

"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."~~Benjamin Franklin

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."~~Winston Churchill

JaxBJJ childhood development expert Dr. Robyn Silverman (@DrRobyn) will be on the Today Show...tomorrow morning at 8:09am. Check it out!

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."~~George S. Patton

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him."~~Henry David Thoreau

I Love Kickboxing @JaxBJJ: 3 classes & Boxing Gloves only $19.99. Fight the Fat@JaxBJJ!! Tonight at 8pm (12 classes to chose from per week)

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."~~Proverbs 3:5

"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."~~W.E.B. DuBois

"Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.". ~~Sun Tzu

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.". ~~C.S. Lewis

"Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.". C.S. Lewis

Master Roberto Traven at JaxBJJ on August 27. 11am to 2pm. (1/2 gi, 1/2 nogi). $60 on or before 8-20. $75 after 8-20. Reserve spot ASAP!

Some days you're the hammer, some days you're the nail......

Great training this morning. Missing 4 straight days on the mat was brutal, and I don't recommend it.

Great job today--TRT cleaning house at Lutador. Great work JaxBJJ and affiliates. Fantastic job overall, still work to do.....for Pan Ams and Worlds. Ousssss!

With Chip teaching seminar in Warner Robins, Ga. Great people!

We now have 12, "I Love Kickboxing" classes per week! Attn. Moms: 930am-1030am Mon-Fri....drop kids off at school & come "Fight the Fat"!