To Jasons

The friends you meet through grappling are a different kind of friend. To me there’s a deeper connection with someone you trust with your safety and has been physically closer to you from the day you met than almost any other person you meet outside the room. Two of my closest grappling friends happen to be named Jason. On 3/13/26 I lost Jason Cockrell to pancreatic cancer. There’s not a lot of people or places that I feel accepted with or in. Both Jasons make me feel that way. No matter how many times I got a little or (a lot) chippy, they didn’t hold it against me. I can speak freely and they just go along with it. To a certain extent we were all forged in the same fire even though they’ve never met. So, to all the Jasons or whoever that person is for you, you are loved, appreciated, and never forgotten.