Everybody has to start somewhere!

Recently I was flipping through the latest Gracie magazine and came across this picture of the Gracie clan. The photo was from the 70's and showed Royce and Royler (both very young) as blue belts. For me seeing Royce as a blue belt was fascinating. In my mind, I always imagined Royce (and Royler) as being born as black belts. But, that's simply not true. Yes, they were born into Gracie Jiu-Jitsu But, they still had to learn it. Everybody starts somewhere.

A brief comment about UFC 81

I thought UFC 81 was a pretty good event. It was a GREAT event for Jiu-Jitsu. It once again proved the benefits of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Without a doubt in the two main events the bigger stronger man lost due to the equalizing factor of Jiu Jitsu.

One of the standards of BJJ is that the smaller man can defeat the bigger stronger opponet by using better technique.


On a side note, I've never been a fan of Tim Slyvia, but he did score some points with me in his comments in the post fight press conference. If you didn't see it I've attached a link below:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/251.7/popup/index.php?cl=6264694