Whenever I disagree with feedback I try to find someone more expert than the original critic to evaluate the feedback. The goal is to be low ego enough to take good feedback while filtering out bad feedback. In the case of this random BJJ instructor criticizing me for 15 minutes, I pinged my friend who is world brown belt champion and will probably be world black belt champion soon. I was right this round, but am not always right. Truth seeking is a process.

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Yesterday I trained at a new school in SF with new dude white belts 50-100lbs heavier than me. I decided to play a very basic game (closed guard with occasional submission attempts and successful back takes) to minimize the risk of injury by angry or incompetent dude. The dudes were able to get some smashes and submission attempts, but never enough to tap me. The professor then assumed I didn’t know anything and tried to teach me basic things. It was psychically damaging. I had to call my friend who is a competitive female black belt to confirm I wasn’t bad at things. Being illegible is hard.

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Levelled up. https://swellandcut.com/attending-to-grace

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started reading Breath by Rickson Gracie ten pages in so far so good

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Sprained my toe fighting my nemesis, Beth. Pray for me.

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Jews migrated here and invented superhero comics so I could hop on a huge guy’s back and choke him while wearing a Spider-Man rash guard.

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Jiujitsu is magic because you train to calmly get out of the most deadly positions into positions of undisputed victory. All in 5 minutes. Again and again.

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I am 5’7 (unicorn founder height). I was grappling with a 6’3 200 lb man last night when the answer to a mystery that had been tormenting me all week popped into my head. https://x.com/willmanidis/status/1958917807762285026?s=46

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100 rounds / 8 hours of grappling in one day. https://swellandcut.com/whats-left

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Dancers are always naturals at jiujitsu but never want to do jiujitsu 😔

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Last night I caught myself doing a jiujitsu move I’d only seen Ottavia Busia-Bourdain do and instantly missed her. She and her partner are both incredible grapplers, but disappeared from the scene 5 years ago. It was really special to train alongside them. I’m reminded that whenever you are in a room of special people it won’t last forever and you should take advantage of it.

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Today a man ripped a Kimura on my shoulder so I pendulum sweeped him into a fall onto his face

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@baltobb : How was class? Me: We did a shark tank. @baltobb: Is that when people pitch you their business while they fight you?

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they were not lying bjj does in fact scratch the wrestling itch for a college wrestler 😂 new hobby unlocked

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TIL that water polo is grappling + basketball. … *checks for local water polo clubs.

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