Bitcoin acceptance point: Triforce Aoyama Jujitsu Studio

I'm Yuki Ishikawa, the Head Instructor for Carpe Diem Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I first started practicing BJJ in America in 1998. I was 22 years old and it was a hell of a shock for me. I thought to myself, "This is awesome! I definitely want to do this!" and so I trained for hours everyday.

When I came back to Japan, my head was stuffed full of Jiu-jutsu. I didn't get a job in a company. So while I worked as a waiter and stuff I trained everyday. When I look back on it now I realize that my twenties really were a great time for me. I made a lot of great friends in those days.

When I hit my thirties, even though it was small, I was able to open my own Dojo. I hadn't won any big international competitions and I wasn't a famous or accomplished competitor, but somehow for whatever reason I had a lot of students enroll at the Dojo.

For 6 years, I was the head Instructor at the Aoyama Branch of the Tri-Force Acadamy of BJJ, under Mitsuyoshi Hayakawa. It was a big difference from my fun filled days of training and competing in my twenties but I had a lot of students and being able to help young aspiring competitors to develop was like a second heyday for me...

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