Ok, so I just had a revelation.

I’ve been putting off making this post for the longest time because I just didn’t know what I wanted my goal and focus for this challenge to be.

I knew generally a couple of things:

• I knew I wanted to be more dangerous
• I wanted to get stronger
• I wanted to learn technique that could be a basis for MMA and grappling
• I wanted to feel motivated to work out again

But I had no idea of specifically what I wanted and how I wanted to get there.

But then it hit me. I don’t need to know. This is an experiment. I’m not setting a goal and see how close I get to it. I’m trying jiujitsu for a month and seeing how it will affect me. Along the lines of my goals:

• I want to see how it affects my fighting ability and mindset
• I want to see how it affects my body
• I want to see what concepts and techniques I grasped
• I want to see how it affects my relationship to exercise

Let’s go on a journey! That is why I renamed it Jiujitsu journey instead of jiujitsu challenge.