I was looking to train with an mma fighter Igor Zanovia he was the dude that got slammed by Frank Shamrock up until then he was whipping some ass in the cage, I saw he was fighting out of Brooklyn New York so me and my boy tried to find him. A friend of mine who was into martial arts told me he might of found this dude it was an Igor not the same one what he did was a style of traditional Jiujitsu called Shizen Ryu Aiki Jiujitsu. The emphasis was on combat effectiveness self defense against people who actually knew what they were doing in a fight. I fell inlove every week we added or discarded fine tuning our art cross training with bjj, boxing, judo, muay thai, wrestling, karate, and kungfu using what ever techniques were useful intergrating them into our arsenals at the same time getting rid of any traditional techniques that were obsolete or finding new ways to apply them practically. I learned discipline it helped to build character to fortify the spirit it saved my life. I developed a grudge against bjj practitioners who looked at my art of jiujitsu as something that didnt work i thought to myself this isnt aikido. We didnt train for competition it was for life or death situations I thought to myself pull guard on the concrete I'll make you pay for it. Eye pokes fish hooks head buts will change the whole dynamic of what these guys do they dont train to fight they trained for sport since in my programming it wasnt practical to go to the ground in a street fight. Then I read Eddie Bravos book and it was inspiring I realized my quarrel wasnt with bjj pracitioners who looked down at my style of jiujitsu it was with myself my insecurities towards my own ground game how i needed to improve it to make my jiujitsu complete. For that i will forever be grateful to Eddie Bravo for reminding me what i should of known in the first place keep an open mind.
