Our family has been on the mats for a long time. The boys started training around age five and are now 17 & 20. I began in the late ’90s. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to travel and train with world-class practitioners, coaches, and highly successful fighters. I share this only to give context. Professor James Driskill is, without question, our family’s favorite instructor. His jiu-jitsu is just one part of what he brings to the table. James has an incredible ability to connect with people from all walks of life, find common ground, and use both nature and nurture to reach his students. Our family consists of four distinct personalities, different ages, different life stages, and a mom! James has a unique gift for adapting to each of us, modifying techniques, and explaining moves in ways that make sense individually. We’re extremely grateful and consider ourselves lucky to train with him regularly. If you ask our boys, they’ll tell you their games have improved fivefold over the past year, largely thanks to Professor James Driskill. Save your money, skip the trial-and-error, and go train with him. You won’t regret it.

@James Driskill 🙏

The process of writing things down helps commit it to memory regardless if you go back and understand what you wrote. One of my sons documents everything religiously, the other could care less. Another concept is putting yourself to sleep by going through your recent rolls or class instruction in your mind. Try to remember and walk through all the details, let your mind wander, reflect and come back to where you started wandering. @James Driskill please correct me, but if I remember right, Rickson used to call this "mind magic" or something similar. It was a way to decompress after rolling before bed. It was also something used before competitions to relax the mind and put you in a winning state. I think a book or sports journal was written about this in the late 90's.

Solid Question! His Pace: as if you were playing with a small child that could only crawl It's a game: I've never really seen Rickson go 100%. To me, he was always playing some sort of a game to make it challenging. He is that technically superior. i.e. Only using one arm, telling you what move he will catch you with, you pick the submission, you start 90+% in a move, .... the list goes on. Believe what you've heard. Rickson is definitely one of a kind.

WOW!!! Thank you all so much for the recognition. Much appreciated. It's been a long journey for sure. Forever grateful to GM Rickson. James has played a huge part over the past year in making this dream come true for me. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to return the favor. Thanks again! Looking forward to training with everyone.

100% and drill one or two self defense moves every training session. Fundamentals will never fail you