Short Term Goals: Improve my instructing abilities, specifically the ability to simplify movements for my students to easily comprehend and display. Traumatic experiences can happen at any time with no warnings. You never truly know what life has planned for you.
This article isn't a plea to live in fear but rather inspiration and reminder that no matter how dark and scary your life might be, you can always find some light to guide you through the madness. Learn more about the effectiveness of Jiu-Jitsu for mental health and physical wellbeing as well as specific strength and conditioning exercises for grapplers and a heart-wrenching story involving a tragic moment.
This interview is filled with interesting topics and discussions around varies topics and benefits of BJJ. I have always preferred the Gi because it represents tradition.
That tradition is what altered the course of my life, directing me away from a very negative path toward being a more peaceful human being. The only thing that makes sense in this world is a kimono, the belt, and the mat. The kimono strips us of all that we are except for our spirit, mind, emotions, and physical attributes essentially our physiological, and mental fortitude.
There is order in that structure, in an otherwise unpredictable world. Rodolfo has helped me as a man, as a human being. That if you can seek peace in a situation that you indeed should. He has opened my mind to the fact that our belt, our rank, doesn't make us superman. We are all human, and all susceptible to a loss on the mat. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has helped correct my train of thought from a very aggressive, hyper-vigilant state stemming from PTSD, depression, anxiety, and OCD, to a more peaceful mindset.
