Name: I Wasted My Life Doing Jiu Jitsu
Uploaded: 2026-01-27T13:04:22.000Z
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Jiu Jitsu is a waste of time to learn, and

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I just lost the last 15 years of my life doing it.

Throughout the years of training, I thought I was learning the best martial art, a real superpower.

I was convinced that you could beat people of a bigger size, even if they're 260.

Walk around with a fresh ego, knowing you're safe and could defend yourself.

And that I would be learning valuable skills for the real world from coveted professors.

But it turns out just the opposite was true.

Instead, what I racked up from all those years was a list of repeated regrets.

Or have you ever shot a double leg and been sprawled on just right and tore your shoulder?

In Jitsu, we love to tell people that it's fun and a safe sport.

YouTubers talk about mat safety, coaches talk about band moves, and

people claim they don't roll hard in the gym.

And yet everyone I know starts Jiu Jitsu looking like this and changes into this a few years later.

Let's be honest here, the sport is about breaking limbs and choking people unconscious.

And we pretend that will never happen to you.

It goes as far as saying Jiu Jitsu is a gentle art when this is the reality.

When we say Jiu Jitsu is a gentle art, we mean that.

A famous quote for Jiu Jitsu is to leave your ego at the door.

This is a great model because you can strip yourself of worries and just spend time learning.

But instead of that happening, my Reddit is stuffed with people crying about egos in the sport.

The ultimate goal of any martial art is tranquility and self respect.

So let me show you the top athletes of the sport and tell me if they're using it.

Even the founders of the sport didn't believe in this, as they would kick you out of the gym if you even had the thought of training elsewhere.

However, that just isn't the case when ego is involved in the sport, and

We practice a sport where you wear a fancy uniform, wrestle around in some pajamas, and

one mythical thing holds the whole outfit together.

This belt is supposed to represent your expertise in the sport.

If you're a higher rank than someone else, this they're basically a free meal to you, right?

There are no universal standards to who gets what belt.

Jiu Jitsu is a sport that requires money to operate and be a successful business.

they want to see their time is rewarded, so they all obsess over the cloth around their waist.

Gym professors rank up students on a whim, have standards different from everybody else, and

some gyms even charge more than $100 just to rank up.

Instead of trying to better yourself, the students just want to chase a shiny new color.

I regret doing Jiu Jitsu because I was robbed of my time.

I spent 15 years learning a sport where I'd be walking away practically paralyzed.

even though I have a black belt, does it even matter when Professor Amazon can just promote you?

The only other regret I have is that you watched this video on April 1st and took the video seriously while commenting an essay on how I'm wrong.

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