Ha - strangely enough, I used to be one of those 'I will ONLY wear a white gi' people. A flip switched when I started my own club, and I went 'fuck it' and dyed them all stupid colours. :P I wrote an article on it back in the day: http://www.slideyfoot.com[...]shion.html

That’s so me. I only own white Gi’s Smiles.

You mean, you have a lot of gis that are ready to dye. That was the great thing for me too: once I decided to colour my gis, I had loooooads of white ones to test out different dye options. :P

Well, you will never get into Gracie Jiu-Jitsu heaven wearing those gi's.

Ha - yep, Helio would kick me right out! But then I wouldn't want to hang out with Helio and Carlos for eternity anyway. Great jiu jitsu, but as people they seem like they were arseholes (going by Choque and other historical sources, plus that infamous Helio interview in Playboy). :P

Can, we are all arseholes. However, even aresholes can stand for one, or if we are lucky, more than one good thing before we die. Not because that ever makes up for the evil that each of us have caused. But, on the other hand, we were all born to die, born flawed in a savage universe designed to kill us. The best most of us can do, which is better than most ever achieve, is to do our best, and have some moment of truth, and courage, and hopefully many moments of kindness. Jiu-Jitsu addresses a form of violence, and a method of character development designed to stimulate courage. As to truth and kindness, we have to add those things ourselves. But, truth without courage is rarely in the sun, and kindness without courage disappears at the slightest inconvenience or adversity. Helio was not Carlos nor Carlos Helio. But each of us is the sole author of our intentions, and we can only hope that our results produce more fruit than rot.

On the other hand, the fact you are wearing a gi, and practicing grapple-dapple-fu speaks to the fact that perhaps despite the entertaining warts in Choque, Some dead men left a positive ripple that lived far after their spirits departed, and their bodies were reduced to dust, and food for the worms. Stardust we were, and to stardust we return.

And here I am entertaining the (very possible) theory that there were a lot more people responsible for the huge growth and innovations of and in the art, besides the gracies (takao yano, the fadda lineage, the catch wrestling influence, george medhi bringing real judo back from japan, bob anderson, etc...)

Life gives meaning to entropy

I really like this.

And here I am entertaining the (very possible) theory that there were a lot more people responsible for the huge growth and innovations of and in the art, besides the gracies (takao yano, the fadda lineage, the catch wrestling influence, george medhi bringing real judo back from japan, bob anderson, etc...)

Holy shit. It happened. https://www.instagram.com[...]n5satmvnhu

Shit I just thought about my goal and road to purple belt. I don’t want a 2 year delay In my Bjj vita. Some hot chix could think I’m not good enough

Shit I just thought about my goal and road to purple belt. I don’t want a 2 year delay In my Bjj vita. Some hot chix could think I’m not good enough

It's a journey to be enjoyed, not a race. And although I am no expert on girls, having been married for 25 years, I don't think jiu-jitsu is at the top of their list, or anywhere near.

Nah man, what you lack in jiu-jitsu you'll make up in skateboarding. You're still getting some girl with a bit of luck.

It's a journey to be enjoyed, not a race. And although I am no expert on girls, having been married for 25 years, I don't think jiu-jitsu is at the top of their list, or anywhere near.

I realised I created an environment for my self that I like to exercise in and then I built my habits around that. And now that it's blocked, it's super hard for me to keep physically active :(

Damn I feel this. After 6 weeks of nothing I finally forced myself to go for a miserable 2 mile run/jog/walk. Today I knocked out some living room exercises. I need jiujitsu so bad for so many reasons.