What Jiu-Jitsu Is All About

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Training with my friends Keith and Mike in San Diego, CA

When I started Jiu-Jitsu, I was 17.

I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life and I thought that being a UFC fighter would be way more interesting than being an accountant or a salesperson or whatever “regular job” I’d end up with if I went down some alternate timeline for my life.

After getting really interested in Jiu-Jitsu, I realized that MMA was not the lucrative career I thought it was going to be and I also realized that I didn’t really want to get in a cage and fight people.

I was probably 22 when I realized I didn’t want to do MMA at all, but at 19, competing in Jiu-Jitsu became the center focus of my life. Everything I did was so that I could compete more in Jiu-Jitsu at a higher level.

For me, Jiu-Jitsu was first about competition.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that Jiu-Jitsu is not about the same things for everyone.

Here's what I think Jiu-Jitsu is really about: