Jiu-Jitsu
Technique
Self-defense and learning to grow through failure
"It's one of the main things that I think a lot of people can get out of jiu-jitsu, other than self-defense, is that everybody starts out terrible... If you could force yourself to go through that process, it's one of the very best processes of a failure and..."
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Decompressing from traumatic law enforcement work
"There's no time off. So for me, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, I would wear the same shirt to work. I had a great therapist that she would say almost, you treat it like a medical examiner has a laboratory coat. Take it off."
Self-defense, learning to stay calm under pressure, full-intensity training without serious injury risk
"I think jiu-jitsu is the best one because although there's always a risk of injury in jiu-jitsu, you're not getting hit all the time and so you can go pretty hard. That's the difference really between martial arts sparring like kickboxing and boxing and jiu..."