Devotion blue belt Seth with a nice sweep and Con Air choke setup and finish.

He’s getting his final days of training in before he goes to compete at Worlds - looking calm and focused.

Who else is heading to Worlds?

A quick look at our breakfast session on Wednesday.

The energy in the temple is good right now, everyone is loose and having fun.

A great place to be ahead of the biggest competition of the year.

Breakfast at the temple

Doesn’t feel good to come up short, but Devotion co-founder Matthias with some strong words for the crew today.

Exciting mail day at Devotion HQ Offices

Viktor joins us at Devotion for Circle of Honor

Hope you all had a great week training!

Good morning from our fog shrouded Appalachian temple!

Devotion 5 is currently nearing the halfway point of its writing process.

Anyone interested in contributing writing on the topics of devotion, martial arts, training, fitness, and so on can email submissions to

devotionjiujitsu@gmail.com

Our deadline for submissions is September 30.

We accept any length under 2500 words so long as it is well written, well edited and thought provoking or inspiring.

Sunday Sessions.

This week, we will be bringing you some video techniques from Matthias’ aggressive turtle guard game, and showing them applied successfully in competition.

Devotion co-founder Matthias Waggener introducing you to his turtle guard game.

Some basics to his system and a clip of him using this technique at worlds this year.

Hope you enjoy it!