It’s been
a pretty successful week!
Yesterday
was my 50th post on my blog and it has been a journey to say the least. It took
me a while to get noticed and to attract readers to my blog but I think over
the last six months I have achieved quite a lot. I still have a lot more I want
to achieve with this blog but my main goal was always to get 100,000 views in a
year. Well, I'm a few hundred views short of 80,000 and I think I can get to
100,000 by September. My posts over the last week have attracted a lot of
views, and I mean in the thousands. My ninth installment of my '10 Years of
BJJ' series attracted over 1000 views in less than 12 hours. I would like to
thank all my readers for making this possible! It means a lot.
A few
months ago I was approached by a woman claiming to be involved with the Gracie
Barra website asking me if I would be interested in writing an article or two a
month for their website. She said if I accepted the offer I would be put through to a
selection process to choose who they want to write for the website. It was a
little suspicious, so I checked her out. She did indeed train BJJ and was
part of Gracie Barra but I don't know if she worked for them. If she did or not, I declined.
Why?
Well, I love blogging and I do it because I love to do it. I also have the
freedom of talking about what I want to talk about and what I think I have
enough knowledge on to talk about. I mean what would I write about for Gracie
Barra? Techniques, nutrition, living the "BJJ lifestyle"?
Realistically I don't feel confident in writing about any of that stuff, and if
I don't feel confident in producing content it’s probably not going
to come across very well. Don't get me wrong it would be
great advertisement for my blog and most probably my views
would go through the roof, but I don't think I'm capable of writing
content for a website like that.
I have no
idea if this was even legitimate, but if it was I would like to say thanks for
the offer and having faith in me to write for a large organisation. Maybe someday in the future I will feel confident enough in my own ability to write
for you.
Now that's out
of the way, let’s get onto the topic of interviews. Kit Dale has received my
questions and is working on them as we speak. I know I told you last week that
I would expect them to be done by Thursday but he is a busy man and I'll just
have to be patient. Although, I do have some good news! I have managed to get
an interview with Edwin Najmi. If you don't know who Edwin is, I highly suggest
you look him up. Edwin is the 2014 purple belt absolute world champion and
after winning was promoted to brown belt by his professor, Romulo Barral. I am
working on the questions and hope to send them off to him in the next couple of
days.
I
have also been lucky enough to be in touch with Ollie from Saviour Tea. They make a line of sports teas especially for athletes and he was kind
enough to send me some sample to review. I've also bagged myself a short
interview with him where he will explain the benefits of drinking such teas for
BJJ. On top of all that, he has been kind enough to offer my readers a discount
code if they would like to try some of his products. I will be getting my samples soon and hope
to get a review and interview done ASAP!
That's
all I have for you guys for this week. If you missed any of my last posts I
will link them below.
Catch you
later,
Giordano
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