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Category Archives: Gracie Jiu Jitsu

Political Jiu Jitsu – Pt 1

Friday, December 7, 2007

I’m now in the third week of my Gracie Jiu Jitsu class. The fundamentals class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., and with one exception I’ve scrambled home in time to get there. The exception was on the day I had my annual physical. The doctor noted some tendinitis [...]

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The Whitest Belt

Friday, November 23, 2007

A few weeks ago I visited my friend Bill Odom, a retired Army colonel whom I met during our grad student days together at Ohio State. He was then a captain tapped to become a military history instructor at West Point and one half of a pair we called the “Ranger Twins,” since both he [...]

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