Craig Jones argues that the higher your social skills, the more your physical performance in Brazilian jiu-jitsu diminishes. At the upper echelons of the sport, practitioners who can talk a big game often can't back it up on the mats. The traits that make someone socially adept are actively wasted in a discipline that rewards obsessive, single-minded repetition.
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