Our friends from BJJ Pix wrote an interesting article how BJJ being a “niche sport” is not that bad at all. Here is a very good point to consider:
“Normal people have the ability to learn from the Jiu-Jitsu elite. I mean I cannot go learn how to play basketball from Lebron James and I cannot go learn how to play soccer from Lionel Messi. It is not possible because of how huge these sports are. The average person doesn’t get to learn, meet or interact with these athletes.
Yet, a normal person working a day job is able to go learn Jiu-jitsu from Saulo Ribeiro, a multiple time world-champion. Is that not surreal? You can go to a seminar from Rickson Gracie and learn from arguably one of the greatest Jiu-jitsu practioners of all-time. In no mainstream sport is this really feasible. It really is something that I feel makes people very passionate about Jiu-Jitsu. The accessibility of the athletes, the ease in which we can find knowledge and overall communal feeling jiu-Jitsu gives to people.”
