Jiu Jitsu - The Great Equalizer
I have this saying: BJJ won't help you be the athletic kid with all the muscles, it'll help you beat the athletic kid with all the muscles. I grew up playing sports. Baseball, football, basketball, even wrestling (but only for a season). But as a kid with no natural athleticism, no speed, little strength, slow reflexes, and poor body mechanics; sports weren't much fun. There was always someone bigger, faster, stronger, better. And for someone like me, it was everyone. But I was competitive at heart, and as a young intellectual, I always thought that there had to be some kind of way to level the playing field. I spent the majority of my childhood trying to make up for my athletic ....
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