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This class is a Brazilian jiu jitsu

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class . And it's one of the martial

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arts here uh offered at Aviano Air Base

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and it's just basically wrestling on

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steroids is what I would say . I'm

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still a beginner white belt . Um barely

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been doing it , but I just know that I

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uh came to my first class and I was

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humbled real quick and I fell in love

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with it . I work with uh all the guys

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in my shop and we always did everything

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together and it was something that I

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could do that was away from the shop .

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It was something that I had personal to

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me and none of the guys from my shop

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did it . And then I eventually started

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inviting them to jiu-jitsu because I

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fell in love with it . So now some of

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the , the people I work with come to

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jitsu , I ev I straighten my left leg

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so she falls in this pocket . All right .

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I'm gonna open up my leg so far . It's

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been uh so good . I've been doing it

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for about a year now . At first it was

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a little hard to get over the fact that

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like it humbles you real quick , but

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it's also challenging . It's like a

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mental challenge , a physical challenge

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and it's something absolutely new .

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It's a great way of self defense as

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well . Um That was a huge factor for me

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is I just wanted to learn how to

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protect myself . So it's just been a

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really , really good opportunity to

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learn how to defend and meet new

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friends and do a bunch of stuff like

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that . Yes .