Originally Posted by danfaggella

KidBJJ, I have never read something I enjoyed so much on this site.

I feel exactly the same, I am ashamed to be training with these angry, tatooed, "fighters" who just want to get strong and "be tough."

I love grappling and I love martial arts, and I wanted to be technical and be proud of myself and my art. I wanted to learn more form the art than how to "kick ass", it was a passion that I planned on being proud of.

Now when someone brings up the fact that I do BJJ people are like "yeah cool, just like the UFC". This makes me kinda sad, and it also makes me really want to instil some value and humility in the people I teach grappling.