Belt by Belt makes BJJ apparel and gear for people who train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, gi or no-gi, from first class to black belt. Every design comes back to one idea: be a little better than yesterday, and help your training partners do the same.
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Most advice says push through the blue belt blues. Read why they happen at all, and the one rule that stopped them for me. Start with...
Read the guide: Blue Belt Blues: How to Get to PurpleGuide
Grip fighting for BJJ players starts before the takedown. Learn the judo grip drill, one trick from my coach, and a block to try next class.
Read the guide: Grip Fighting for BJJ Players: The First Fight You Have to WinGuide
A BJJ training journal is the catalogue jiu-jitsu never wrote. Copy my four-column sheet, learn to spot gaps by position, and start tonight.
Read the guide: How to Keep a BJJ Training Journal That You Actually UseStart with BJJ t-shirts if you want something to wear to class and after it: plain-spoken lines like Better Than Yesterday, Show Up Anyway and Jiu Jitsu Coffee Repeat, plus a youth tee for kids who train. When the gym is cold or the drive home is long, the grappling hoodies and crewneck add the layer.
For the gi bag and the life around training, BJJ accessories gather the steel bottle, the gi tote and the dad hat, while BJJ stickers and BJJ patches put the hand-inked belt mark on bottles, laptops and bags.
If you want to get better faster, the BJJ training gear shelf is built around the BJJ training journal: a place to write down the detail your professor showed, what worked in rolling and one thing to fix before the next open mat.
Buying for someone else? BJJ gifts sort things by who they are for, from gifts for BJJ coaches to gifts for kids in BJJ. Every piece of our BJJ apparel is printed to order, and the designs are made to work on and off the mat, so the tee from Saturday open mat still looks right on Monday.
Both. The designs are about training itself, not a specific uniform, so they suit gi and no-gi players alike.
They work for drilling and warm-ups. Many academies require a rash guard for live no-gi rounds, so check your gym's rules.
Not right now. The shelf is apparel, accessories and training journals for the life around the mat.
Most work for Judo and BJJ alike. A few, like Jiu Jitsu Coffee Repeat, are made for jiu-jitsu specifically.
