Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is hard. It is punishingly, ball bustingly, verge of tears hard.
That said, I'm probably not going to stop anytime soon. The interesting thing about BJJ is that the reason it is so hard is also the reason it is so effective, and perhaps why the best in the world are so much better than the rest of the world.
The thing with grappling is that you can go balls-out, 100%, with no mercy. You can try out new things, you can look for new techniques and you don't get your head caved in. Consequently, when you're starting you get absolutely slaughtered. During this slaughter, you try out ways to fight back. You last a couple more seconds. You do that again and last a couple more seconds. After you last a few more seconds you try out something else, and see if it works. You learn to how your body can move in ways you never knew, how to feel when you're in danger.
I can't think of many other things where you learn by failure. It seems to be such an effective way to learn, difficulty aside, that it makes me wonder why this method has not been adopted in more areas.
Sidebar: GSP Diaz. Holy shit that is gonna' be cray cray.
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