Writin' Forty

  I’m going to do the military thing where you start with bottom line up front. Here goes: I don’t care much for Joe Rogan. That statement isn’t really much in itself and I’m going to do everything I can to support it but it’s going to be indirect and may not even necessarily be about the man himself. It’s highly possible I do like the dude; if we were somehow to meet without cameras around we would have conversation and I would be blown away by what a complete human he is. Maybe. I try to be open m inded so that is a possibility. With that out of the way: One of the…things that bugs me about, I  dunno  if it’s even endemic to just MMA/ jiujitsu  culture or if it’s widespread to overall “manly” culture…ugh. Let me try this again. I am not the hugest fan of the “image” of being a man. No matter what, there aren’t really a ton of things around that are required for you to be a man anymore. One might say that’s the problem overall with society and I’m not really here to discuss that. What

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 7 years total time since I started jiujitsu. I prefa ce total time because with many things that happen in life there are always interruptions, via injury or  idk , moving from one state to the other because your job dried up where you were.  Seven years being a part of something and you definitely get an idea of what the culture is of the thing you’re a part of. Make no mistake about it, jiujitsu has its own culture. That culture is intertwined with MMA culture (mixed martial arts). In no particular order here are a few charact eristics of jiujitsu culture: 1.  Everyone listens to Joe Rogan’s podcast.  Ev .  Er . Y. Bo. Dy. 2.  A whole lot lean to the right side of the aisle politically. A whole lot would describe themselves as being anarchist. 3.  A whole lot love guns. Talking about them, shooting them…talking about shooting them. 4.  Most don’t like watching any other sports but MMA or jiujitsu and oh boy, do they watch a TON of MMA or jiu