Research Project

​I saw John Danaher say that a piece of advice he would give an aspiring Jiu Jitsu athlete was to treat training like a research project, and that’s interesting to me. Almost from the beginning of my Jiu Jitsu journey I was trying to absorb whatever information I could find. I had magazine subscriptions, books, instructional videos, I was in Internet forums, whatever I could find that allowed me to gather information. I would ask questions, bring things to work on, be early, and watch almost anything martial arts related. I know I have said before that this is not a hobby if you want to get better. If you’re not obsessed, to make it to black belt is incredibly hard. If it’s fun for you that’s cool, but there’s a weight to putting a black piece of fabric around your waist in this sport that you only understand when you have it. Treat this like more than something you show up to do, because it’s only going to be frustrating otherwise.