Journal
Training Culture
How rooms work, and what that does to the people in them.
Training Culture
Drilling, rehearsing, and what positional sparring changes
Three different activities share one word in most gyms, and the confusion is not linguistic: it shows up in how the hour is spent and in what the room believes it is buying.
4 August 2026 · Guard Theory editorial · 7 sources
Training Culture
The dropout number nobody can source
Ninety per cent of white belts quit, or seventy, or seventy-five, depending on which page you landed on, and ninety-five never reach black; following each version back to its origin is more instructive than any of them.
4 August 2026 · Guard Theory editorial · 8 sources
Training Culture
What to wear to your first no-gi class
We read four academies' published dress policies and two competition rule books. They agree on less than you would think, and none of them asks a beginner to buy anything first.
Draft · 6 sources