Dear Fellow BJJ Die Hard
Keenan Cornelius Here.. There has been a lot written about me since I won the Double Grand Slam at Purple Belt in 2012 – I won my weight and the Open class at all 4 Major IBJJF Tournaments. Even more was written in 2013, when I became a Brown Belt World Champion and then won a bunch of prestigious tournaments in my first few months as a black belt. In the last 2 years I’ve won a lot, But……..In The 6 Prior Years I Hardly Ever Won!!!
I have spent the last 8 years of my life dedicated to jiu-jitsu, Learning the techniques, tweaking things to make it work for my body (im not very strong) and developing concepts and philosophy to apply to the positions of jiu-jitsu in a systematic and understandable way.
In the beginning, I lost alot! In competitions, in training, in online arguments EVERYWHERE! I was beginning to feel like I was never going to amount to anything with my jiu-jitsu skill.
But with a simple mental trick I reset my whole jiu-jitsu game.
I went through the biggest transformation of my life, I was a skinny purple belt getting my ass kicked ego beatdown over and over by people training less time than me, and smaller than me. Don't tell anyone, but as a blue belt, a girl used to beat the crap out of me daily. ** cold shiver as Keenan recalls the horror** I can still see those horrible braids in my nightmares...
I changed my mindset about jiu-jitsu. The way I learned, the way I competed, and especially the way i trained. I want to share with you these secrets. Before now I have only taught techniques through my DVD series. But I want to go beyond that. Through this online training website I want to not only show you the competition proven techniques I use, but to share with you the ideas thats formed me into the grappler I am today.
I always wished I had been able to learn Jiu-jitsu in a more organized teaching environment. Every jiu-jitsu gym, website, youtube channel, you name it, was teaching techniques at random.
A guard pass here and fancy submission there. one day we are learning flying triangles the next we are learning closed guard escapes. Thats all fine, but its sporadic. Its like trying to fit puzzle pieces without the flat edges to show us the border.
So I created this online, dynamic training system, taught how I would have liked to have learned jiu-jitsu (more on this later, let me continue this story!)
"BUT KEENAN! WHY SHOULD I LISTEN TO YOU? YOU USED TO GET YOUR ASS KICKED!"
AH! My dear reader! A valid point! You should listen because I have gone from a zero to being the first athlete ever to win the coveted "Double gold grand slam" Thats 8 gold medals at the 4 major tournaments in 2012. In just that year alone I amassed a competition record of 119 wins with a single loss.
As a brown belt I competed in the well known BJJ Kumite, I had 20 Sub Only matches over the course of 3 days against the best brown belts in the world.
I submitted all my opponents to become the champion. and In 2013, the very next year, I went on to compete and win in another 108 matches with only a single loss at my brown belt level. The whole time maintaining an 87% rate of tapping my opponent out.
Following my three world championship titles at purple an brown belt, I earned my blackbelt from Andre Galvao and have fought and won in numerous black belt competitions including gold medals at the IBJJF Pro League, 5ive Grappling Round Robin Superfight and a double gold medal in the Abu Dhabi Pro Trials. Now fighting my way towards my 4th world title!
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