A Dream

28May/090

If money was not an obstacle, what kind of career path would you choose? What would you do with yourself?

I forgot how the question goes, but it's something similar to that. It's a question that I've come across in the past that I was never able to answer. It's supposed to help you discover what your passion is in life, or at least that's what they say.

Well in the past few weeks, I've been secretly entertaining an idea that will probably only amount to nothing more than a dream, at least in the near future. I hope to one day open my own bjj school, but I want to focus on a youth program. Schools in the city are notoriously expensive. Ideally it'd be a low cost after-school recreational type of thing.

I want to open up my own school because I want to spread the art. I love and believe in brazilian jiu-jitsu. I love the concept of minimum effort for maximum efficiency. Of personal efficiency to protest the stronger. The force of leverage against brute force.

I want to focus on youth because I feel it is not very known on that level. When parents think of martial arts for their children, they think of karate or TKD. I want brazilian jiu-jitsu to be accepted into the mainstream. To be viewed beyond the context of UFC, which is what many people associate it with. I also think bjj is great for youth because it'd help keep them in great shape due to the intense nature of the sports. Way better than video games. It's also competitive but fun at the same time, and most importantly, the skills you learn in bjj are PRACTICAL.

I'm a long way from opening my own school. Hell I'm a long way from even being close to being qualified to teach.

None of this means very much if I don't train hard. I have years and years to go before any of this can be a possibility.