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I Earned My Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. What Does it Mean?

What I like about BJJ is that it’s very practical. We’ve all seen these Youtube “martial artists” teaching things they’ve either learned from Hollywood or just made up that are in no way realistic. Just looking at their technique you think, “that would never work in real life.” BJJ actually works practically. Obviously nothing is one-hundred percent effective, but its extremely high percentage effectiveness over other marital arts has led to it being coined “the King of Martial Arts”.

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