First post / Academy Progress

Introduction

Welcome to the Ground Rules Academy Blog. The purpose of the blog will be to share any information relevant to the academy and grappling in general. This may include grappling technique, martial arts philosophy, Brazilian jiu jitsu competition, science and physics, reviews, recommendations, news, promotions, and anything else I feel the urge to write about.

Progress

We are making good progress on building the academy (follow us on Instagram and Facebook for recent updates). The judo-style subfloor is in with help from several Darcio Lira team members, and I’ll be spending another 2 weeks working on details like paining, building furniture, etc. The final push will be on Sunday 7/14, when we’ll build and install the wall pads and mats.

Preparing the back-end of the academy has also kept me very busy as well. I’m nearly finished setting up a credit card processing/point of sale system, registering the website on as many online directories as possible to help with search engine optimization (i.e. ranking on google searches), ordering merch/materials/supplies/furniture, and establishing affiliations with professional organizations.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed with all of the tasks on my to-do list, and if I’m being honest, I’ve had one or two sleepless nights in the last month. But so many lessons learned from BJJ have made this undertaking manageable. Reminding myself to focus on the problem in front of me, to appreciate incremental gains, to do things correctly now so that small errors don’t snowball into big problems later on, and to simply keep showing up every day.