Welcome to BJJHeadStart.com
After a few years of thinking, I finally managed to put together the first website for the BJJHeadStart. Nowadays the technical part is easy, but designing the website is a good test for your content. Do you really know what you are doing. As an engineer I have always been fascinated about developing concepts and systems, but before those become useful to others, you need to go through quite some effort to get the message in to clear and easy format. I decided to design the site myself, just to learn more. So here it is, first version. Far from perfect but good enough to start (80-20 rule in practice).
I am working full time outside of BJJ and BJJHeadStart is a hobby project for me. Typically this means that bigger projects, like creating a website, I do on my holidays. That is why there is sometimes a break of silence here, that just means that I am busy elsewhere. Doing this as hobby project does have some disadvantages, but there are lots of positive things that come along. First of all, when I work for this, it’s driven by passion. I really like to spend time with the BJJHeadStart project, and with BJJ in general. And when I do that, I don’t feel that I am working. Second, all what I do does not need to make sense from time investment point of view. I can try out different things, study others, make mistakes, think slowly, and waste time in many other ways. This would be probably bad business but it is very good when you are inventing something new.
After spending stupid amount of hours around the takedowns for BJJ, it probably makes sense to share my findings with others. And that is what BJJHeadStart is all about. I have learned that one of the hardest things related to this project is to get people to listen, and that is for obvious reasons. There is a lot of information out there and getting the mind share is tough. I have also learned that after getting some attention, people really appreciate that input that I am bringing. Hopefully people find this online information useful and the ideas would spread. That remains to be seen.
I am native Finnish speaker, but I chose to write the site in English. This way I only need to do it once to share the information with wider audience (Finnish people do know English quite well too). Occasionally some of the videos for example are in Finnish, but I do my best to keep things universally understandable.
As always, I am open to any feedback. Please contact me for any comments or questions. Also if you do feel that I should keep on working on this, like/follow BJJHeadStart in social media (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube) and share the content with others too. That will always trigger me to work more on this.
Have fun and stay safe!
Jukkis
