Violence of Action

​This is probably the biggest difference between people who start Jiu Jitsu today and when I started in 2003. Most people are too nice. At the root of what we are doing is combat, a giant game of mercy if you will. Genuinely, we are attempting to inflict pain upon another person so they give up. Some have called it simulated murder. As long as you keep yourself in control, being “mean” is part of the activity. It’s the gentle art simply because we are not hacking at each other with swords and no matter what it looks like from the outside, it is still in fact a fighting discipline. Within the rules, be violent.