Episode 48. From a Street Fight to Running a Gracie Academy
The conversation
About Ryan Brinkman.
Ryan Brinkman sat down for Kumite Lifestyle. That conversation is episode 48, “From a Street Fight to Running a Gracie Academy”.
Ryan is a longtime jiu-jitsu instructor and the owner of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Ocean Springs in Mississippi, where his wife teaches Women Empowered on the other side of the mats.
He grew up surfing in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. He started martial arts in 1997, at about 15, after someone slapped him in the face at a party in front of a hundred people. He was given a school to run around 2004 or 2005 and joined Gracie University around 2021.
Ryan talks about building strong academy culture, training for the long run, and coming back after a stroke on the mats in 2021, when students he didn't expect stood behind him.
“I had a stroke in 2021 on the mats”
“I'm from Jacksonville Beach, Florida”
From the episode
- When you can't train, still show up and sit in.
- It's okay to say no, and sometimes it's harder than saying yes.
- Turn a negative into a positive the best way you can.
- Discipline
- Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
- Gym or dojo
- Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Ocean Springs
- Location
- Ocean Springs, Mississippi
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