I have been training in Kenpo Jujitsu since August 2010 and I haven't once looked back since. Jujitsu isn't just a sport, it's a hobby, educational, character building and developing, team building and a way of life. but first and foremost:

 "Jujitsu is respect"

Throughout my Martial Arts journey I have seen fellow students, coaches and combatants learn what respect means, for some it starts as an understanding that someone is higher in the pecking order, for others it starts as bowing to someone else's knowledge but to others its knowing someone is a winner. After training in Martial Arts respect becomes more, it becomes friendship, understanding, giving and taking, helping and most of all, respect for your training partner and or team. Without respect for each other we could never learn more than how to build our own egos.

 "The winner is the one who takes something great home"

If I asked you to talk about this statement you may interpret it in many ways; he takes a medal home, he takes home wins, he brings his club pride, but what I see is a reason to learn. To me this statement  demonstrates all to do with Martial Arts, to me it means that the winner is the one who learns from their experience, win or lose, they take home knowledge and understanding.

 I now train in Traditional Kenpo Jujitsu, Brazilian Jujitsu, Kickboxing, Boxing and MMA and my journey has only just begun.