Mark Johnson

"A balanced game will allow you to attack from both sides, making your skills more complete, more effective, and essentially doubling your techniques."

- Mark Johnson

"A balanced game will allow you to attack from both sides, making your skills more complete, more effective, and essentially doubling your techniques. Always drill both sides. Balance is good."

- Mark Johnson

"In order to control your opponent, you must control yourself, and to do that, you must breathe and relax."

- Mark Johnson

"A great goal of jiu-jitsu is to be technical—not to be fast, or strong, or tough, or tricky; it is to be the master of movement."

- Mark Johnson

"The thing about jiu-jitsu gis is that some of them are really expensive. Don’t get caught up in how much your gi costs; it doesn’t matter how much you pay for a gi, it won’t make your jiu-jitsu any better, the only thing that will make you look good on the mat is your technique."

- Mark Johnson