We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding.

Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.

Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn.

After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming.

We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.

AmbiJits- the ability to perform jiu jitsu techniques on both dominant and non dominant sides.