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- If you were wanting to train jiu jitsu

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the biggest thing you could
expect is to be challenged.

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It's really gonna allow you to
see how much more you can do

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and just kinda challenge you to do things

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that you are uncomfortable,

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but you'll grow each day you come.

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I've been practicing jiu jitsu,

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as of right now, six years total.

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I would say jiu jitsu offers
you a chance to work muscles

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that you typically don't and
you definitely build a lot

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of technique and you build a
lot of friendships as well.

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There was already someone instructing

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the jiu jitsu program here on base,

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and when he PCSed, I
didn't want it to go away.

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So I decided to take my
little knowledge that I had

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and try to keep the program going.

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My jiu jitsu had grown in the
time that he was instructing

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so I wanted to be able to offer that

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for the other airmen here on base.

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The thing that I gained the
most of it is being able to see

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that my jiu jitsu gets
better like fundamentals

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and seeing people have something

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that they can take for
the rest of their lives

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and seeing their

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their skill sets

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are growing in jiu jitsu
is really rewarding.

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If someone asked me like,

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"Hey, what, if I come to jiu jitsu class

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what can I expect?"

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There's a lot of pulling
and tugging on our gis,

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which is our uniform that we wear.

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There's a lot of joint manipulations

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but we're not pulling on fingers

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and toes or anything like that.

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There's some grappling so
we're those who have wrestled

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before might see some common
overlap between techniques.

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There's just a lot of dynamic movements.

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but then there's a lot of movements

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where you're very in
dominate strong positions

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and things of that nature.

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We're all different body styles,

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you know you have people
who are 250 pounds

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and you have people who are 90 pounds

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and we all train together.

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We don't separate class
based on size, sex,

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you know, anything like that.

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So the resilience the you
grow is being able to have to

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navigate people who are
bigger or smaller than you,

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but also respecting your training partner

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so they don't get hurt, so
they can keep coming to class

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and getting better.

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I fell that jiu jitsu is a good outlet

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because it allows you to connect

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with people that are genuinely invested

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in you becoming a better person

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and a better practitioner.

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Your peers are always happy

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to see you grow and get promoted.

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There's never, like, a competition.

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It's just "Oh, I'm happy
that he got his accolades

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that he deserved cause he's working

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to do his part to get better at jiu jitsu"

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but also training and bring
the next generation up.