Rickson Gracie

of supporting your life, not as a fighter.

Because today, this is winning fighting.

This is win without a fight.

I can give you tools for you to become more peaceful, more connected with yourself, more sensitive to others, better in the relationships, better in your sense of believing in yourself for endeavor.

and you don't have to spar with nobody.

The concepts I change in my teaching progress now is before, in the first month, you're gonna learn some techniques, and the end of the first month, you're already sparring.

And that sparring session can be very positive for some warriors, but can be jeopardizing a lot of guys who are not designed to fight.

Yeah, because if you come in to learn techniques and you amazed by, oh, I like the tech and you come in and I put you to spar,

with a 17-year-old, brutal, aggressive, with nothing in the head.

And he coming to grab him.

So hurts and discomfort and agony.

And you're going to say, I don't want that in my life.

The guy is stupid.

So if you get too soon involved with the actual competition aspect, jeopardizing your learning process in martial arts, which I believe the first year

Right now, I'm sure the first year of practice has to be learning, practicing with a training partner, not with an opponent.

The opponent, you're just going to face, not in the first month, not in the second month, but you're just going to face when you say, yeah, I feel like I want to learn a little more how to get a belt.

And so now you're going to start to, Tom, go here.

John, come here.

So you try to see who falls on top.

And then you start the competition.