Rickson Gracie

I cannot teach a girl as I teach a boy.

Their inspirations are different.

So based on that sense, I start to realize jiu-jitsu has a lot to do with the mindset, with the approach, because we all need to learn something from martial arts.

But sometimes you're not aggressive, you're not mean, you're not a competitor.

That doesn't mean you don't need to learn martial arts.

Martial arts is not exactly just to win.

My developments, my mental, spiritual, and physical developments, they could reach a plateau if I was not involved with breathing the way I am.

It's very interesting, but the only organs are capable to give and receive information are the brain and the heart.

Other than that, the body just works, but doesn't have influence.

If you get a bad email, you immediately gonna get upset, you're gonna get claustrophobic, you can get emotional, you can get depressed, because your brain tell you you're not happy.

Sometimes you feel something, but doesn't hit your brain, hit your heart.

And immediately you feel emotional, you feel sad, you feel whatever, because you felt in your heart.

The lungs are the only organ who are capable to have a connection, a direct connection with your brain and with your heart.

When I started training breathing, I started to feel a completely different dimension of death.

and my sensibility and my capacity to feel myself deeply.

Because normally, on average, people born, people get slapped on the butt, start to cry.

And then they feel like they know how to breathe.

They can survive.

And then they learn soccer.

They learn fighting.