Much of it not his fault, but all the same, Gracie has had more than his fair share of traumas. While it is clear Rickson Gracie found that flow in his training and within the ring, his life has been marked by conflict. Perhaps most poignantly, he asserts himself as a self-aware realist, and while that is undoubtedly true, it is also evident that he isn’t quite as self-aware as he believes.īreathe: A Life in Flow is in itself a sort of paradoxical title. Adamantly in favor of respecting progressive, dynamic women, and a father who believes in empowering his two daughters, he also repeated the chauvinistic behaviors modeled by his father and uncle. Born with a fierce temperament, he adopts wild animals, gentling them into pets. Rickson Gracie is very proud of being humble.Īnd that is only the beginning of the paradoxes that surround the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend.Īn alpha personality in the dojo, within his family he took a backseat to his brothers.
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