Longevity

What you can or could do in year one and what you can do in year ten are very different, for both good and bad. If you are insistent on not tapping to things out of pride, I promise you that will lead to your detriment. I think the greatest example of this that I have seen are the Miyao brothers. They are younger than me and walk like Frankenstein’s monster. Their bodies are crooked and mangled, and they look like they are in pain pretty much all the time. I can’t control whether that’s the destiny you choose, but I can give you cautionary tales as someone who has done this for twenty plus years. Every time you leave practice with tenderness from tapping late or not tapping at all accumulates, especially after thirty. Give yourself the opportunity to live a life and have fun doing Jiu Jitsu. Nobody cares after all.