It's Different

​You’re not in shape for Jiu Jitsu unless you’re doing Jiu Jitsu. It’s a fact of life. By appearance there are so many people that are in better shape than me, but if you put them on a mat, they won’t keep up. They may wipe the floor with me in any other athletic endeavor, but I’ll wear them out grappling. My best Jiu Jitsu friend and I used to post up at open mats and just wait for people. I was a portly young fellow, and he a long skinny gentleman. People saw us as an ego boost. In their brains they said “we can beat them”. They didn’t, usually it only took a minute or two before they said they were done and sulked on the sidelines. Don’t judge people for their looks on the mats and don’t think you’re in shape for grappling without grappling.