Timothy J Pupak

I'm Tim, founder and author of The Practitioner’s Journal. If you're reading this, you might be wondering why I created this journal and who I created it for. Well, several years ago, I quit my corporate job to go backpacking around the world. After being an international nomad for over a year, I felt that the structure and discipline I used to possess was starting to fade. Because of this, I was persuaded to give Jiu Jitsu a try. Like many of you, I was immediately humbled by a 14-year-old kid that took my back and strangled me with a rear naked choke. Despite the frog-swallowing blow to my ego, I was hooked. Even with my enthusiasm for the sport and a consistent training schedule, my struggles with Jiu Jitsu were plentiful. There was way too much information to remember, repeat, and reenact, and the structure offered in class wasn’t individualized enough to be sufficient. The next obstacle that subsequently followed was my body. I was physically drained and didn’t have the wherewithal to understand when I needed to take my foot off the gas (despite having 12+ years of functional strength and conditioning training under my belt). Taking notes and daily journaling seemed to be an effective strategy, not only to measure my progress, but to help retain everything I was being taught. Physically writing [pen to paper] seemed to be the most archaic, but functional solution. Despite this, my notes were sloppy, unorganized, and lacked any real structure or pattern. The lightbulb didn’t click for me until months later, when I was on my way back from a failed summit attempt in the Rocky Mountains due to some harsh weather conditions. Shortly after the attempted climb, I was laying in my van, rehydrating and contemplating: When would I try to climb it again? What would I do differently? How could I manage to summit? I began to record all of the details and logistics of my first attempt. I wrote down the total distance, the duration, how my body felt, what time I departed, what time I got back, how many feet of elevation I climbed, how many hours of sleep I had gotten the night before, and so on… After analyzing my notes, I immediately realized how systemized and effective this was for remembering all of the key details that I needed to know if I were to successfully repeat the climb. How I wish I had implemented a similar system for Jiu Jitsu. After 12+ months of testing the methods, systems, and structure found in The Practitioner’s Journal, the product was born. Whether you are struggling with specific issues or just looking to improve your overall game, this journal can be used as a resource to help aid in your jiu jitsu journey and overall path to self-development. You can use the journal to document everything you’ve learned or simply as a record book for your own memory’s sake. Thank you for supporting a small business that was built from the ground up by myself and dozens of other avid Jiu Jitsu practitioners. My hope is that it will help you better enjoy your own process towards mastery. Thank you for the support. . Own the process, - Tim, Founder, Author | Animal | Athlete