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TCB #105_P.O.V. you start Jiu Jitsu_PART.2

TCB #105_P.O.V. you start Jiu Jitsu_PART.2

You are the white belt. You are assimilating but still getting choked pretty bad. You have your moments of acceptance. Now it’s competition prep time. God bless the pure bodily struggle of man. Amen.

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1.You heard Louie Simmonds say something like, The way of the sword is the journey into hell.

Why would you go on that journey? Your whole life you’ve thought that you should be kind, harmless, compassionate.

And now hell? But fire destroys and fire refines, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it do both?

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