The story of my trip around the world to train, teach and compete in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and other grappling arts.


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Before it’s too late

When this post is being published, I am sitting on a plane towards the first destination of my four and a half month long journey around the world. Doing something like this is a dream, that I have had for as long as I can remember. In some periods of my life, it has been very clear and concrete, and in other periods, it has been vague and almost forgotten. But is has always been there, and this day I know, that I am doing the right thing. This is what I want to do, this is where I want to be. This is what I want to do with my life.

I will leave with a track from my favorite movie of all time, “Into the Wild”. It is a beautiful film with a beautiful soundtrack, and together with a very tragic event happening around the time I watched this, it really gave me the push I needed to make this dream reality. We have one life and one chance, that not everyone takes before it suddenly one day, out of the blue, can be too late.

“The secret of happiness is freedom.
The secret of freedom is courage.”

Thucydides (471 BC – 400 BC)


Pills!

Went to the pharmacy today to get the last things I needed for the trip. My friend Martin already hooked me up with lots of probiotics pills, and today I bought some anti-inflammation painkillers, malaria medicine (just in case) and something if I get a sore throat. I also plan to shit a lot when I eat all kinds of strange, exotic foods, so got something to help me there as well ;)