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It’s official!! AG1925 HQ - Franklin, Tennessee - Grand opening info coming soon!

The spirit of our mission has been the same for over 100 years. AG1925 🥋 A heritage of human empowerment 😤

Email info@ag1925.com for early training opportunities.

Grateful for everyone and everything that made this moment a reality and the forces that tested/ guided my journey, leading me and my family to such a beautiful part of the country/world🙏❤️🏆

@academiagracie1925 ⛩️ taken in Franklin, Tennessee by @ralekvision

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Warrior spirit = keep your faith in the higher power and keep moving forward 💯🥋⚔️

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The script was already written 🌍🚀 by @ralekvision

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Many women will tell you:

“That wouldn’t happen to me.”
“I wouldn’t put myself in that situation.”
“I would kick him in the groin.”
“I would poke him in the eye.”
“I would scream, run, or fight back.”
“My husband/son will protect me.”

But what happens when none of those options are immediately available?

A young woman in our community was allegedly attacked by someone who was already too close for many of these instinctive responses to be effective.

Self-defense is not simply about knowing how to strike. It’s about understanding how to progress when your options seem limited.

Learning even basic strategies to manage distance, improve your position, create space, and recognize new pathways to safety should be an essential part of every young woman’s education.

When people believe they have no way forward, they may stop trying—even when other options exist. Understanding those options can change how we respond to uncertainty.

Empowerment isn’t the belief that nothing bad will happen to you. It’s developing the knowledge, awareness, and practical skills to navigate difficult situations when they do arise.

A safer community begins with better education.

KNOW YOUR PATHWAYS.
AG1925 | Women’s Jiu-Jitsu + Self-Defense www.AG1925.com | Franklin, TN taken in Ag1925 Jiu-Jitsu Franklin by @ralekvision

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Gi. No-Gi. RealitY 🚂🚂🚂🚂

Always looking for the balance ⚖️

@academiagracie1925 taken in Ag1925 Jiu-Jitsu Franklin by @ralekvision

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One of my favorite ideas from Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets is that we have to be careful about judging a decision entirely by its outcome.

A good decision can produce a bad outcome.

A bad decision can produce a good outcome.

Martial arts is full of this.

You attempt something technically unsound against a beginner and it works.

Does that mean it was a good decision?

Not necessarily.

Maybe you were stronger.

Maybe you were faster.

Maybe your opponent didn't recognize the opening.

Maybe you simply got away with it.

Then we make one of the biggest mistakes in training:

We confuse success with validation.

Something worked, therefore we assume it was correct.

But training should be asking a deeper question:

Why did it work?

Was it the quality of the strategy?

Or did the circumstances allow a weak strategy to succeed?

This is where Thinking in Bets becomes incredibly relevant to martial arts.

Duke writes:

“What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome.”

That's a powerful distinction.

The objective of training isn't simply to collect successful outcomes.

It's to improve the quality of the decisions that produce those outcomes.

Because eventually you'll meet someone bigger, faster, younger, stronger or more experienced.

And the margin for a bad decision gets smaller.

Don't just ask:

“Did it work?”

Ask:

“Why did it work?”

That's where real learning begins. taken in Ag1925 Jiu-Jitsu Franklin by @ralekvision

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Strategic prioritization in self-defense is essential 🏁

This appears to be a road-rage incident, and if that’s the case, it likely could have been avoided. That said, there’s much to learn from natural body mechanics between two people operating under fewer expected conditions.

With someone less trained, top position is often overvalued and underutilized for control, especially when the person in bottom position is determined to try multiple pathways and has a size, weight or strength advantage.

Striking more often means controlling less / with the exception of striking serving as a distraction to better control 😴😴😴 by @ralekvision

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Training in a way that exposes you to dangerous outcomes in competition or self-defense seems to be becoming more popular. This person had to undergo emergency spinal surgery. I hope he makes the best possible recovery—this sucks.

It’s an important warning, though: how you allow someone to position you in guard should be taught and practiced more carefully. There’s very little efficiency, progression, or value for the bottom person when they’re fully inverted like this. It seems like he was following a triangle attempt. 🤦‍♂️ by @ralekvision

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Is your BJJ training preparing you for street self-defense or MMA, where there are fewer rules?

How you maintain position and adjust at every stage makes a HUGE difference when the stakes become more threatening.

Big respect to @nedward_kiani who was humble enough to come out for a week to work with me privately and in our group classes on exactly that. After training for 20+ years and earning a black belt in BJJ, he was surprised by the level of exposure that exists for him in a striking context. His JJ is really solid so fortunately I have a lot less to help him with!

Still, the biggest takeaway was how we fine-tuned his strategic value system to accommodate both sport and street applications.

Going from one position to another is fine—but what if you’re far less efficient going one way than the other? At scale, the implications become massive when you’re no longer preparing exclusively for the people you train with regularly.

How adaptable you are depends almost entirely on how fundamentally you train and the assumptions you make about progression at every stage.

I call it Value Mapping.

Value = efficiency + effectiveness at scale against your worst-nightmare opponent 👹 taken in Ag1925 Jiu-Jitsu Franklin by @ralekvision

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Happy place ✅ by @ralekvision

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