If you stick with bjj for very long, you will at some point be showing a move to another person.  That can either be as one student to another perhaps after a roll, or in a more formal teaching role - perhaps as an instructor coaching a class.  In either case you will be explaining and demonstrating a movement you learned somewhere.  Of course, there will be times when you are showing something you came up with on your own, but the vast majority of cases are more likely to be you demonstrating something you picked up from someone else via a conversation, private lesson, seminar, class attendance, dvd, or similar.

When passing along that information you have a simple choice: to quote the source or not.  As you may have guessed from this blog, I am all for referencing your sources.  In my estimation this honors the transmission of that information.  It honors the person who took the time and cared enough to share their hard earned experience with you, and it honors the bond of student and teacher so integral in martial arts.  In that spirit, I credit John Frankl with ingraining this in my mind as I watched him credit guys like BJ Penn and Rickson throughout a seminar last year in Berkeley.

Honor those who shared with you by giving credit where credit is due and perhaps one day you'll be praised by another for your willingness to share openly what has worked for you on the journey.

See you on the mat!