o that’s awesome man! find a bjj gym after that has wrestling practice.

i grew up wrestling in the midwest. my stepdad was a national champ/coach. I wasn’t good at all but was around it a lot.

I’ve been doing bjj as often as possible just over 5 years. with a lot of wrestling classes and grappling for mma classes sprinkled in. it’s my whole social life outside of work 

 Damn national champ is crazy impressive! 

I’ve done a little bjj in the offseasons but definitely thinking I’ll transition to that and maybe some muy thai / mma training post college just to have something to keep working at. 

Such a great community of people with combat sports and the awsome thing about bjj is it can be a lifelong discipline. 

 dude i’m pumped for you. So much endless discovery there. The other cool part is there is jiu jitsu almost everywhere on the planet, and the people are usually interesting and fun 

 Thanks man, I’m definitely exited to dive into it!  love how the UFC has really mainstreamed martial arts I think more people training is a big net positive. 

 absolutely, just like how the grappling community all grow together you now have almost unified principles across martial arts 

 Crazy how much martial arts have leveled up in such a short period of time. 

But then again it’s kind of an example of how free markets and open competition drives innovation. 

When all the arts were siloed there very little improvement but put them all head to head and we can actually figure out what works! 

 yes, plus the magic of open source / internet