Thanks for sharing a bit more of your backstory with us. In my case, moving to Denmark at 14 is easily the most consequential step. My life would look very different had I stayed in Ukraine.
I also have a yellow belt in taekwondo from back when I was about 11 or 12. You get it by performing a series of pre-choreographed steps and punching air in front of judges. So... that's not very consequential at all.
Still, fun to hear about! Let me know if you wanna write some more of this stuff down. I am interested in doing so largely because I know a lot of these memories only live in my head right now, and that's unacceptable.
Well, for one thing we really prioritized hygiene. A huge pet peeve was going to other tournaments and seeing people just walk barefoot into bathrooms... then back onto the mats, with those same peefeet!
So cool. I wish I’d discovered it when I was younger. I found the ole osteoA in other ways. But BJJ is inspiring and clearly addictive. Thanks for sharing Andrew 💪🏻
Part of what I've worked hardest on is to make jiu jitsu more accessible to successively older folks over the years. We do have some students in their 60s, and this makes me incredibly happy! But there's much more work to be done.
I discover that when moving away from a tall building instead of shrinking in size, it grew. I realized that shorter building shrank much more quickly and that is why skyscraper seed to grow when they were shrinking.
I need to learn trig, so I ask my grandfather who pointed out a book. I that realized than someone else had discovered, since I was near a small city (Albany NY) and larger cities had had skyscrapers much earlier.
Ever hear Feynman talking about how he kept discovering scientific ideas that were already known? He did this right up until he butted into something nobody had figured out yet, and of course he went right ahead and just figured that out too.
Thanks for sharing a bit more of your backstory with us. In my case, moving to Denmark at 14 is easily the most consequential step. My life would look very different had I stayed in Ukraine.
I also have a yellow belt in taekwondo from back when I was about 11 or 12. You get it by performing a series of pre-choreographed steps and punching air in front of judges. So... that's not very consequential at all.
Still, fun to hear about! Let me know if you wanna write some more of this stuff down. I am interested in doing so largely because I know a lot of these memories only live in my head right now, and that's unacceptable.
Really, really cool and interesting. ❤️
How was your new tournament different than others?
Well, for one thing we really prioritized hygiene. A huge pet peeve was going to other tournaments and seeing people just walk barefoot into bathrooms... then back onto the mats, with those same peefeet!
So cool. I wish I’d discovered it when I was younger. I found the ole osteoA in other ways. But BJJ is inspiring and clearly addictive. Thanks for sharing Andrew 💪🏻
Part of what I've worked hardest on is to make jiu jitsu more accessible to successively older folks over the years. We do have some students in their 60s, and this makes me incredibly happy! But there's much more work to be done.
I discover that when moving away from a tall building instead of shrinking in size, it grew. I realized that shorter building shrank much more quickly and that is why skyscraper seed to grow when they were shrinking.
I need to learn trig, so I ask my grandfather who pointed out a book. I that realized than someone else had discovered, since I was near a small city (Albany NY) and larger cities had had skyscrapers much earlier.
I was 3 1/2 at the time.
Ever hear Feynman talking about how he kept discovering scientific ideas that were already known? He did this right up until he butted into something nobody had figured out yet, and of course he went right ahead and just figured that out too.
That is the way of most people who want to learn.