No gi jiu jitsu

Here's an email exchange I had with IBJJF staff. Read from the bottom up. On Jun 17, 2015 6:49 PM, Rebecca Silva <rebecca@ibjjf.com> wrote: Hi Georgette, we never had a problem with you at the event. You are definately right about that. You were always professional with while working for us and I appreciate that. However, its our police that people who have an active voice/take stands (i'm sorry for the language barrier) should not be added to our staff. Our staff should ne neutral. I wrote you that because I believe its best to be honest. I agree that you have the right to have your opnions and we have the right to have our polices. Thank you, Rebecca ▼ Hide quoted text On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Georgette Oden <georgetteoden@yahoo.com> wrote: By the way, there were no issues at Seattle Open. And if it helps, of course I will always behave, as I have always in the past, with complete professionalism. My rights to free speech stop at the door of the workplace,

William Burkhardt is the photographer behind BJJPIX, and has more than once dipped his toe into a sea of controversy.  First, with his "Hot or Not" postings on facebook this past January: Next, with his sexy photoshoot with San Francisco purple belt Jena Sapinoso: I did a little looking at his other work including his facebook page and it's clear he's quite talented.  (He was named 2014 BJJ Photographer of the Year .) It also seems to me that he has an interesting attitude towards women... not only for his views on sexualization of women in jiu jitsu, but also the arguable objectification of women in these examples, and because of his wholehearted support of the "PUA" pick up artist/seduction artist community. If you look at William's facebook page, you can see he's attending/listening to pay-per-view broadcasts of "Seductive Instinct" lessons taught by Arash Dibazar .  William filmed a promotional clip he refers to as a  "document

Rener Gracie + 114 jiu jitsu students + eight hours + a giant high school wrestling room in Bellevue WA (just outside Seattle) = almost too much of a good thing. But really, there's no such thing as too much jiu jitsu, right? Rener's super seminar was amazing. I'd done a Rener seminar before, a few years ago when I was still a pretty new blue, but that was just three hours on the back mount.  This was four seminars compressed into one solid day. Rener and his wife Eve (expecting their first baby in about three months!) came to Seattle so Rener could teach the Gracie Survival Tactics course to law enforcement this week.  The lead organizer is my good friend Craig, a Bellevue police officer. Craig runs a Gracie Garage in his garage, and trains all over Seattle at most of the jiu jitsu academies.  He is a blue belt through the brothers and visits Torrance several times a year to train directly with them. This personal connection is certainly part of why Rener agreed to teach t