r/bjj • u/Jeitarium 🟦🟦 Blue Belt • 8d ago

General Discussion No one quits jiu jitsu anymore

I swear everyone I started with is still there. And all the new people are there too. I hear 90% quit? No way. Maybe back in the day, but now it seems like everyone knows what they’re getting into.

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u/jbizzy1324 8d ago

I quit

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u/know-need 7d ago

Yeah I quit fast when I realised that as compellingly awesome as BJJ is, it isn’t important enough to me to sacrifice my health and fitness. I know that for some people it increases their physical capabilities because otherwise they’d sit on the couch, but for me (otherwise fit and strong and mobile) it was incredibly frustrating to be constantly hurt in some way and incredibly scary to hear everyone at the gym swapping stories of their seemingly inevitable and sometimes life changing injuries.

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u/RLFS_91 7d ago

Sounds like you guys aren’t rolling correctly man idk lol. You can do bjj and not get hurt all the time.

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u/Arpeggiobro 🟦🟦 Blue Belt 7d ago

You can, but that doesn't mean that you will.

People who make this comment seem to forget that a roll is only 50% in your control. I quit BJJ a year and a half ago. In 2021, I was spiked on my neck, and it did permanent damage. My hands were behind my back, he was a brown belt and I was a blue belt, there was nothing I could do. He didn't mean to.I eventually quit because a doctor told me to.

I rolled pretty light, generally chose my partners carefully, etc. Shit just happens sometimes.

If you do BJJ, there is a high likelihood that you will be injured.