Brazilian Jiu Jitsu [EN/ES]

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Ten years ago I was locked inside a gym without stopping training and teaching classes, talking to people and getting to know my body a lot. But I'm not talking about the banal of knowing my body, I'm talking about knowing my limits, knowing when my body is fine or when something is wrong with it. Being present with my body and keeping track of it. Possibly it sounds like something stupid and obvious and that all people have the same thing and realize what happens to them, that they are capable and have real records of their own body, but the reality is that it does not happen in most cases.

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I had gotten it after so many years of working with the body showing, explaining and trying to convey what I knew, and I had reached a point where I was really bored and couldn't find what had led me to be there. It was like I was losing the love or the magic and that's when my two friends, Martin and Francisco, showed up and started telling me to come to the class that I was going to like what I could be. I had never done contact sports before or yes, but different ones not where you fight or hit so I wasn't convinced until one day I was encouraged.

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That day I finished giving classes at 18hs and when I finished I went to the Tatami for the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class, I went up the stairs of a part of the gym that took me to the Tatami for the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class. It was strange to train barefoot, not lifting any kind of weights, wearing a very thick suit that gives you a lot of heat, you do not train alone, you have to train with someone else who has your smell, your breath, your perspiration were a lot of things that you are not used to and if you read them as I tell you, I am not romanticizing the activity hahahahaha sorry.

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It was all new so after an extensive and complete warm up we were asked to choose a partner and with your training partner the class started and we did a series of attack and defense techniques. The activity for those who do not know it is a sport where you play chess with the sole purpose of neutralizing the other person with keys of all kinds or strangulations. There are no blows, so what I really liked was that as soon as they inflict a minimum pressure or pain on you, you slap your partner or the ground twice and he lets go and the action stops.

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I left that class and from that moment on I never stopped going. 3 times a week I was there ready for class for about 4 or 5 months straight, I would watch videos of techniques and go over them alone or with my ex at home on the weekends. I remember fighting as many partners as I could, white, blue, brown and black, any color was fine and the higher the level of the person I was going to fight the more I wanted to fight. The adrenaline I lived was great until one day my coach told me -Gasti is organizing a tournament in Boca and you have to come, are you up for it?
I asked him if he was really ready to go and he answered me that he was there to try a tournament.

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The day of the tournament came and I had felt adrenaline until that day, at that moment the adrenaline did not enter my body, I felt like I wanted to shit myself and vomit at the same time. I went without any intention or pressure of anything, I went to have fun but I wanted to win. In my category I had 3 fights and I had to win 2 fights to win. Here are some pictures of what that day was like and I learned a lot from it.

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Spanish Version

Hace 10 años que estaba guardado dentro de un gimnasio sin dejar de entrenar y dando clases hablando con gente y conociendo un montón mi cuerpo. Pero no hablo de lo banal de conocer mi cuerpo, hablo de saber mis límites, conocer cuando mi cuerpo esta bien o cuando le pasa algo. Estas presente con mi cuerpo y tener registro de el. Posiblemente les suene como algo eestupido y obvio y que todas las personas tiene eso mismo y se dan cuenta de lo que les pasa, de que sean capas y de tener registros reales de su propio cuerpo, pero la realidad es que no pasa en la mayoría de los casos.

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Yo ya lo había conseguido después de tantos años de trabajar con el cuerpo mostrando, explicando y tratando de transmitir lo que yo sabía, y había llegado a un punto en donde realmente estaba aburrido y no encontraba lo que me había llevado a estar ahí. Era como que se estaba perdiendo el amor o la magia y fue ahí que aparecieron mis dos amigos, Martin y Francisco y me empezaron a decir que me acerque a la clase que me iba a gustar que podía ser. Nunca había hecho deportes de contacto o sí, pero diferentes no en donde se lucha o se golpea entonces no estaba convencido hasta que un día me anime.

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Ese dia termine de dar clases a las 18hs y cuando termine elongue un rato antes para estar lo más entrado en calor posible y subí las escaleras de una parte del gym que me llevaban al Tatami para la clase de Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Era extraño entrenar descalzo, no levantar ningún tipo de pesa, es usar un traje muy grueso que te da mucho calor, no entrenas solo, tenes que entrenar con un otro que tiene su olor, su aliento, su transpiración eran un montón de cosas que uno no está acostumbrado y si las lees como te las cuento yo , no estoy romantizando nada la actividad jajajja perdon.

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Era todo nuevo así que después de una entrada en calor extensa y completa nos pidieron que elijamos un compañero y con tu compañero de entrenamiento empezaba la clase e hicimos una serie de técnicas de ataque y defensa. La actividad para quien no la conoce es un deporte en donde uno juega al ajedrez con la única finalidad de neutralizar a la otra persona con llaves de todo tipo o estrangulaciones. No hay golpes por lo cual lo que me gusto mucho fue que apenas te infligen una mínima presión o dolor vos le das dos palmadas al compañero o al suelo y este suelta y se corta la acción.

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Salí de esa clase y desde ese momento no deje de ir. 3 veces por semana yo estaba ahí listo para la clase durante unos 4 o 5 meses consecutivos, me la pasaba mirando videos de técnicas y las repasaba solo o con mi ex en casa los fines de semana. Me acuerdo que luchaba con todos los compañeros que podia, blancos, azules, marrones y negros, cualquier color estaba bien y cuanto mas alto era el nivel de la persona con la que iba a luchar mas queria yo. La adrenalina que vivía era genial hasta que un día mi entrenador me dice -Gasti se organiza un torneo en Boca y vos tenes que venir, te animas?
Le pregunté si estaba para ir realmente y me contestó que estaba para probar un torneo.

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Llegó el día del torneo y yo si había sentido adrenalina hasta ese día, en ese momento la adrenalina no me entraba en el cuerpo sentía que quería cagarme encima y vomitar a la vez. fui sin ninguna intención ni presión de nada, fui a divertirme pero quería ganar. En mi categoría y me tocaron 3 luchas tenía que ganar 2 luchas para ganar. Acá les dejo unas fotos de lo que fue ese día y del cual aprendí un montón.

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I made this post and by mistake I uploaded it to the Black&White community but I wanted to upload it to photography lovers. @monochromes what can I do to fix this mistake?

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There's not much you can do now.
The post will be muted, for obvious reasons.

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I don't want to be disrespectful to this community to which I like to belong. That's why I also made this comment.

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I don't think you did it to be disrespectful. Mistakes happen all the time.
The post was muted because we are a black and white photographic community and there's not a single black and white image here.
I do not understand why you crossposted it to the community again after it was muted though. Specially since we clearly state in our rules that we do not accept crossposts.

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