Top Jiu Quotes

  • Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself. – Chris Matakas

    Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.– Chris Matakas

  • By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim. – Chris Matakas

    By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.– Chris Matakas

  • Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings. – Chris Matakas

    Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.– Chris Matakas

  • There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it. – Chris Matakas

    There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.– Chris Matakas

  • For the sincere student, it mustn’t be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. – Chris Matakas

    For the sincere student, it mustn’t be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.– Chris Matakas

  • We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life. – Chris Matakas

    We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.– Chris Matakas

  • Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say. – Chris Matakas

    Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.– Chris Matakas

  • Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road. – Chris Matakas

    Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.– Chris Matakas

  • This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another. – Chris Matakas

    This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.– Chris Matakas

  • It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides. – Chris Matakas

    It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.– Chris Matakas