Boardwine Grappling Academy

Jiu-Jitsu transforms you through the journey and the people you meet. Similarly, exploring exotic places brings peace, self-understanding, and lasting memories.

offers the ultimate experience for your development as a grappler and person. Join us from September 25-30, 2024, at Turks & Caicos, the world’s top-ranked beach, with the incomparable as our Lead Instructor.

Tom’s not just a world-class Jiu-Jitsu athlete, stunningly effective coach, academy and association builder; his immense overall IMPACT sets him apart, shaping our global Jiu-Jitsu community. There is good reason why had him on his epic podcast ( #414). And you’ll experience it when you have the opportunity to learn from him.

His book, “How You Bear It,” helps people find purpose in pain, reflecting his commitment to discussing tough and important topics with great wisdom.

Organized by , a seasoned grappler, event creator and NCAA D1 Wrestling Coach, the all-inclusive retreat offers air-conditioned beach Jiu-Jitsu, delightful island food, unlimited alcoholic drinks, easy local transportation and help with the entire travel and planning process.

Once in Turks, your retreat will grant you access to sailing, snorkeling, yoga, live entertainment and more.

Only limited spots are available for the Turks & Caicos Retreat. Best pricing is accessible now until 2023-end (when prices will increase).

0% APR payment plans are available spanning 12-36 months, making this journey possible for all.

What a great honor & surprise! This week I was promoted to Brown Belt in Jiu-Jitsu by our awesome Professor of who is under the tutelage of leader of

Initial thoughts …

1) wow.. I really need to learn a lot more jiu-jitsu now so I can properly live up to this new belt!

2) I moved up from the freshman team to the JV team. One more step to go to get to the Varsity Squad 🥋 with the big boys.

I am so grateful for so many that have helped me along my journey and for all the benefits that training has provided me … it’s made me matter psychologically, physically and spiritually and given me another awesome grappling community that has become a home.

I have so many people to thank but I am so grateful to my wife who has been so supportive of my journey. It’s hard to find someone who really wants the best for you every time, even when it is inconvenient for them. That’s MJ!

Thank you of for introducing me to BJJ 🥋 and always encouraging me not to quit… even though I was old and my body hurt! And of course his mentor of and for all the good training and visits over the years.

Especially a huge thanks to my professor and for their great teaching and family they’ve built at

If you haven’t checked us out, come visit and try a class. Kevin and Haley are first-class people. You won’t regret it!

Time to get to work …. Lots to learn!

It was so cool seeing my dude and college wrestling stud in Las Vegas and to meet his new wife.

I was a part of Matt’s journey as his college wrestling coach. He’s killing it on and off the mats … crushing it as a college strength coach, brand-new husband and killer brown belt 🥋.

The beauty of the fighting arts is the relationships you build along the journey! And we couldn’t have had a better setting to reconnect.

🤼 + 🥋 WED & FRI 5:45a-6:30a

Start your day right.

Format:

Come Sleepy 😴

1) World-class warm-up
2) 1 technique from a technique tree that’s been proven effective for decades
3) drill, drill, drill for mastery
4) spar

Leave Happy 😃!

It’s time. Are you warm? Are you ready?

As you stand in the center of the mat, or octagon, and await your toughest opponents, you’ve probably gone through an extensive physical (and psychological) WARM-UP process.

But what about before training on an average day at the gym?

Did you know that statistically far more injuries occur during training than competition?

When you get injured and have to take weeks or months off it’s probably going to be during normal training…. Not from competition.

There are a few theories on why this is but the one I think is most accurate is that we simply do not treat our body on an average training day with nearly the care we do on a competition day. We don’t do a Proper Warm-Up, and we get hurt.

That’s not good because it’s a lot easier to keep something going than to start and stop it constantly… that is especially true of skill and conditioning development and ESPECIALLY true after age 35.

Here are some benefits and 1 key to a Proper Warm-Up:

1. UNINTERRUPTED PROGRESS - you need this in your our grappling life! A Proper Warm-Up will help you remain injury-free to train, so that you can make uninterrupted progress in skill and physical development for years on end. If you can do that, you will reach your potential much more quickly!

CHANGE YOUR MINDSET: Too many of us view a warm-up as an annoying activity unrelated to martial arts progress. .. just a series of unrelated and annoying movements that have little to do with our ability to make progress. So we want to skip it and get on with our workout. Don’t think like that!

In another post, we”ll tackle more specifically exactly what makes for a Proper Warm-Up.

Follow us for more tricks of the trade

Try this low-risk takedown technique to put your opponent to the ground and …. pass their guard all at once.

Link is below:

https://youtu.be/FUVaYFwnp4c

Wrestling For Jiu-Jitsu Immersion Day II:
“No-GI…. Session II” is a wrap 🤼 🔥 🥇 🥋

Thanks to all who helped make this possible. Especially to our sponsor with the best wrestling and BJJ gear on the market. Message me if you need anything for 🤼 🥋 for your team. www.spartancombat.com.

We had a large turnout of men and women of all skill levels …white through black belt, and all sizes. It was awesome to see the growth of this group throughout the day.

Huge thanks Lepri BJJ Raleigh and Tony Casarez for the hospitality and my home team
Jiu-Jitsu league with Kevin Howell & Haley Howell for all the support. Also my brother Adli Edwards for sending a nice crew over.

Stay in touch with us for more opportunities around the Carolinas ☀️ 🌲 and the rest of the USA 🇺🇸

Wrestling For Jiu-Jitsu Immersion Day: GI…Session I in the books! 🤼 📚 🔥 🥇 🥋

Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible. Especially to our sponsor with the best wrestling and BJJ gear on the market. Message me if you need anything for 🤼 🥋 for your team. www.spartancombat.com.

We had a large turnout of both women and men, and of all skill levels …white through black belts, and all sizes. It was awesome to see the growth of this group throughout the day.

Huge thanks Lepri BJJ Raleigh and Tony Casarez for the hospitality and my home team
Jiu-Jitsu league with Kevin Howell and Haley Howell for all the support.

Session II is up next!

is widely recognized as one of the most successful and innovative Jiu-Jitsu coaches in the world.

In his post today, he outlines his opinion that the future of Jiu-Jitsu is integrating wrestling.

I agree! 🦉 🤼 🥋 🥇

Our Wrestling for Jiu-Jitsu Immersion Day exists to fill this exact need for you.

Join us Saturday 2/19/22 at the new Casarez BJJ / Lepri BJJ Raleigh (NC) location with my man a black belt and all-around awesome guy!

It’s not too late to register

Sign up or Learn More here ⬇️

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CIF 🤼 Wrestling right around the corner !

I had an amazing day of teaching the great sport of wrestling.

Thank you 🙏🏻 for bringing me in and giving us get these kids ready for the post-season and enjoy the sport !

🙌🏻 🙏🏻 thank you brother

Adli is a beast…. I think the best Featherweight not yet in the UFC! Watch out for him 🥊 🔜 🥇

Wrestling for Jiu-Jitsu Immersion Day!

GI and No-GI sessions.

Take your BJJ to the next level by mastering the essential wrestling skills you MUST have to defend, and execute your BJJ at the highest levels.

Scan the QR code on the flyer below for all the details, including everything you will learn.

Shoot us a DM for questions or go to www.BoardwineGrappling.com for info.

Thank you so much to the following people for making this event possible

Tony Casarez
LepriBJJRaleigh
Lucas Lepri BJJ
JiuJitsuLeague
Kevin Howell
Haley Howell
Spartan