Jiu Jitsu is embodied knowledge. It’s a return to the movement patterns of childhood. The ones we forgot.

Watch dogs, cats, or babies play. They all know Jiu Jitsu. They shrimp, roll, and play guard with all four limbs, and they do it unconsciously.

Then we age. We hit a tipping point in our development where nurture overpowers nature. Education skews us toward cerebral knowledge and away from embodied knowledge.

This is how a middle-aged software developer arrives on the mats and seemingly does not know how to squat, or does not know the safe range of motion of their joints.

It’s not that they don’t know. They do. Their body does. They just need to remember.

Category: Inner Work

Tag: Embodied Wisdom

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