The little cotton balls that form after use and washing are also known as cotton pilling. 1stly let's begin by understanding pilling on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Cotton Uniforms What is Pilling? Pilling is the formation of small balls or clusters of fibres on the surface of a fabric. These tiny balls appear when loose fibres become tangled together due to friction and rubbing. In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, this happens naturally because your uniform is constantly subjected to intense contact, gripping,...

There is an undeniable fact that the dropout rate for BJJ blue belts are very high. Why is this? Well lets put it this way.. it isn't just something that happens to blue belts but purples, browns and sometimes even black belts. Let us focus on the blue belts for now and come back to the rest later. When we start to consider why this happens, then we have to start with the nature of BJJ itself as a martial art. Brazilian Jiu jitsu is a difficult, technical, an ever evolving martial art...

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