Katrina

“True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful.”
― Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

“Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to conscious attention all that once went unseen. It is meant to make you more loving. It is meant to make you more wise, but less certain. It is meant to make us humble, yet supremely confident. It is meant to remind us of our frailty while simultaneously making us feel invincible.”
― Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

“For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.”
― Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

“This is what Jiu Jitsu gives us, and is what so often remains ineffable. Jiu Jitsu frees us and allows us to be what we have always been, but simply never had the medium to express. Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the Road.”
― Chris Matakas