No taunting or jeering like you see in so many other sports. Every single time that I tapped out, however, I was immediately released and was shown a lot of respect.
My joints had been stretched to the limit, and I had been choked out several times. I didn’t have a black eye or a busted nose. I had been submitted countless times, yet I left the gym without a single injury. I don’t think that I even gave them a proper warm-up, though I had put everything I had into each match. The people that I trained with that first session were maybe at the blue belt level at the time, which is just one rank higher than my lowly white belt, and several ranks still below black belt. I felt those ranks were purchased rather than earned, and so it felt very inauthentic to me. I had tried other martial art classes before, but at 25 years old (at that time) I wasn’t challenged by even the meanest 9-year old black belts of those other sports. When I finally left the gym, my head was spinning and I was trying to understand what had just happened to me. Every single instinct that I had was wrong. That being said, I had never been so thoroughly outclassed in anything as I was in that first training session.
#MOST DANGEROUS JIU JITSU MOVES PROFESSIONAL#
While I’m far from a professional athlete, I have enough basic athleticism that I’m rarely the last person chosen in recreation kickball. I’m so thankful that I swallowed my fear and walked into the gym on that first day. This “Gentle Art” has changed me in ways that I never expected when I started. If you’re thinking about trying BJJ, then let me tell you why I LOVE jiu jitsu.
Others just love feeling confident and in control. There are a million reasons that people train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. My first lesson in BJJ wasn’t that I was terrible at the sport, but rather that I could literally trust my training partners with my life.
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