Gone too soon.
When Brazilian jiu-jitsu first entered the surf scene, some two decades back, it was seen as a wonderful boon. When not in the water, surfers could stay in surf shape by dressing in pajamas and rolling around with each other on the floor. Everyone, it seemed, got in on the game, even the greatest surfer to ever do it, one Kelly Slater, who has risen to the lofty heights of make-believe blue belt.
Alas, no one could have foreseen that BJJ would, some two decades forward, eclipse surfing in popularity, even cannibalizing potential future surf stars like AJ Iredell.
The California-based 14-year-old appeared on CBS weekend news, last night, to share how he had kicked surfing to the curb and, instead, gone all in on BJJ. Two years ago, the same CBS news program had interviewed Iredell when he was a “surfing phenom” with sponsors and “heading to the pro circuit.”
The newsman, Carter Evans, asked what he liked best about surfing and he answered “the people.”
You and me.
But that was then. Now he is a champion in BJJ and surfs no more. “I just felt this (BJJ) is what I was really passionate about,” he told Evans. “This is what really made me happy.”
Iredell, Evans explains, “Now trains six hours a day, which forced him to make a hard decision about surfing.”
Iredell, picking up, says, “I can’t train as much if I’m doing both. I gotta pick one.”
“He picked jiu-jitsu,” Evans ends, twisting the dagger.
Oh what might have been.
Watch here, if you enjoy heartbreak.
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That kid was no phenom. He couldn’t get through two rounds of a local WSA event. Gonna go get a HamSammish now.
Her ol boy Gunna go Wolf Creek on IM.. Farkkkk
One of the rare sports male testicles often smear one’s face. Not my cup thanks.
A Russian and an Irish wrestler were set to square off for the Olympic gold medal. Before the final match, the Irish wrestler’s trainer came to him and said, “Now, Derek, don’t forget all the research we’ve done on this Russian. He’s never lost a match because of this ‘pretzel’ hold he has. It ties you up in knots. Whatever you do, do not let him get you in that hold! If he does, you’re finished.”
The Irishman nodded in acknowledgment. As the match started, the Irishman and the Russian circled each other several times, looking for an opening. All of a sudden, the Russian lunged forward, grabbing the Irishman and wrapping him up in the dreaded pretzel hold. A sigh of disappointment arose from the crowd and the trainer buried his face in his hands, for he knew all was lost. He couldn’t watch the inevitable happen.
Suddenly, there was a Long, High Pitched Scream, then a cheer from the crowd and the trainer raised his eyes just in time to watch the Russian go flying up in the air. His back hit the mat with a thud and the Irishman collapsed on top of him, making the pin and winning the match.
The trainer was astounded. When he finally got his wrestler alone, he asked, “How did you ever get out of that hold? No one has ever done it before!”
The wrestler answered, “Well, I was ready to give up when he got me in that hold but at the last moment, I opened my eyes and saw this pair of testicles right in front of my face. I had nothing to lose so with my last ounce of strength, I stretched out my neck and bit those babies just as hard as I could.”
The trainer exclaimed, “Oh, so that’s what finished him off?!!!”
“Not really. You’d be amazed how strong you get when you bite your own balls…”
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fk i’d root him
Ron Dog is a Proper Lion, that acts like just a puppy.
That is why he is so well respected
He looks after EVERYONE.
Poor cunt.
Blame his brother
Tough to imagine, but other humans don’t drink in excess and make social mistakes
Elo? How quickly we forget.
Xox
Gone
HR won’t allow it again.
And they are what we refer to as “shit cunts”
Any shit cunt, gets flushed straight to hell
This hurts for 46% of us all.
Why not just 46 minute heats?
Think Caity has a bag of shrooms ready.
I reckon Vaughan Blakey will be demolishing poon with his womb broom left right and centre
Legit, craziest womb scraper y’ever seen.
thing has it’s own girth certificate
Big fan are you of thick cock?
Long and thick does the trick
Andy C loves a fat womb scraper
Juicy or just plain menacing?
Xox
Go look at Steve Shearers report.
The opening photo of Jack is fuckn epic.
He is only human, and most of them crack at some point. Coulda at least smashed his board up.
I heard Jack is still down sitting on the rocks.
What is the hardest thing about bjj?
Telling your parents you’re gay.
And autistic.
Hahaha fuck hey.
Xox
Brazilian Jew Shih Tzu
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Can we show this to Tyler
bbbj b better
Been 6 hours and I am still trying to figure out something witty to say.
Brain Fog is real.
Its been more like 6 years.
Fk i thought Ju-jitsu was where a few blokes blow into a cup and a chick drinks it
Should be an initiative in Australia. Get the cunts to quit! You know the Brazzos have moved into your town when the BJJ Studio opens up…
BJJ dojo, tattoo studio, whey isolate shop and illegal tobacco store. The four horsemen of the apocalypse.
don’t forget the açaí bowl shop!
Must be the cold weather but acai has not made it to Victoria.
Note from the field: all the new jiujitsu joints are no-Gi, Australian or US-owned operations. Brazilians are maintaining via Gracie and co but losing a ton of market share.
wouldn;’t mind learning some Dagestani wrestling.
Everyone has heard of Nazis hiding in Brazil after WW2, and the Israeli agents who hunted them.
But did you know that the famous Jewish dog owning drummer/producer Tommy Ramone once had a Brazilian Jew Shih Tzu ?
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Wait until you find out what the zionists are trying to pull off in Argentina.
Womens dicks?
Go look up the way Argentina-under the rule of their Zionist leader- recently changed the laws so that in Patagonia, which was previously not fo4 sale to foreigners, was subject to bushfires then suddenly it’s now eligible to be sold to foreigners.
What an odd thing to legislate you may be thinking?
https://www.sott.net/article/504047-Patagonia-under-siege-How-fires-foreign-capital-and-the-Isaac-Accords-are-reshaping-Argentinas-last-frontier
The Bilgola Company..etc etc etc
Argentineans share a lot of personality traits with Israelis but don’t have the money to pull it off.
Good. If only it was that easy to get people to quit surfing I’d start a dojo at every half decent wave on the planet.
For real. Idc who you are, it’ll fuk your joints, the injuries will have you sidelined and the cult of Jiu Jits ultimately, usually, will overcrowd the surf brain.
Unless you have unlimited time on your hands. Then you can be the mega cunt we all aspire to be.
i had to listen to a douche every week at my local poker game go on and fucking on about how much weight he lost how awesome jiu jitsu and himself oh my god i wanted to crack him so badly
yeah, but if you did, he would have gone to the ground and insisted that you just agree to join him down there and play his game. Most one-dimensional martial art out there
geh
But yeah, so geh.
What’s the story with Ju-jitsu ? How effective is it? I’m not talking Gracie , I’m talking regular Jijitsu practice. It can’t be invincible or else everyone would do it? What defence is there against a couple of fast cracks to the head or gut?
Derek….whats the story? Are you basically a clandestine Hulk able to smash anyone at will now?
Let’s just say I’ve done some adjacent stuff. All martial arts teach the same things, eastern or western. Their differences come down to what they prioritize. In the BJJ instance, it’s ground grappling that is the only thing (though there is some upright grappling stuff). But all other martial arts have grappling parts of them.
With other martial arts, the ground stuff was historically not a priority because it was correctly assumed that once you were on the ground in battle, you are dead and so is your opponent.
So, BJJ is a modern martial art designed to deal with modern laws and modern competition. If the cops can’t understand how bad you hurt the other guy on the ground, you at least get to say, “I never hit him.”
Got my kid into it young so he wouldn’t have to go nuclear with punches in a fight. Being able to subdue someone, pin ’em and choke em, if you have to, nice skill to have.
100% agree that it’s the best less lethal, less maim
someone martial art out there. It all gets rather fucked (on the ground in particular) if someone has a knife on them though.
Grappling, not just jiujitsu but wrestling/judo/jiujitsu, gives you something pretty useful. Nate Diaz described it as a essential skill like learning to swim. You never know when someone’s gonna try and drown you etc. Best lesson I’ve learned is, size diff is real. Height, weight equals momentum and, usually, strength. And, surprising to me, a lot of fat cunts are tougher to deal with than muscle boys. I think, cause, fat boys are born big people and muscle boys are usually insecure skinnies stacking for vanity.
Just get on insta and search for some Foxy Korean chicks doing Tae Kwon do. Fucking hell. It will waste way more time than beachgrit and no awkward explaining that you are not gay.
But pivot into grappling, when you add wrestling takedowns in the mix, it gets a little better.
ok, but the best possible grappling situation in any martial discipline is still where you throw someone to the ground and you stay on your feet
You’ve been doing it for a while? As said above it looks like a golden ticket to injury if you start that stuff at our graceful maturity.
Isn’t that also known as “twister”? Right foot yellow!
Only thing I may add is a fight is dynamic event and the aggressor has the advantage in the first exchange. When practicing jiujitsu at most academies you have a set of rules or boundaries that you adhere to. In a fight you are immediately well past those boundaries or rules which can be a shock to the nervous system. And now you are behind. So unless you train in a manner incorporating strikes you might get KO’d in the first exchange or when trying to close the distance for a take down. Now if you are training jiujitsu regularly with larger, smaller, faster , slower and stronger partners. Your nervous system is use to the pressure of another human and this is where the advantage of the art of grappling counts. The longer the fight lasts on the ground the person with jiujitsu training advantages compound.
Just shiv the cunt when you know he’s got a good hand
idk, that might just be a recipe for more Brazzos in more lineups when members of the impossibly huge Gracie clan set up shop across the street from your dojos.
Gawd….is there anything gayer than foreign crew thinking they’re on equal footing to the locals in a lineup?
Bronzed Aussies?
Jkizzle.
what you mention transcends all nationalities and is really just whether or not you’re a fuckwit
yeah there’s one thing …worse than foreigners in a line up for locals….locals who are not locals?
Why doesn’t Flojos sponsor more dojos?
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