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What Does Kaizen Mean for Jiu-jitsu?

Joe Rogan says kaizen means you continue to improve on one thing in a never-ending cycle. He says that cycle is the jiu-jitsu philosophy of a coach obsessed with getting better, and the Nissan GTR is the engineering example.

The Nissan GTR has stayed essentially the same car for 20 plus years. Nissan keeps the body shape, keeps the geometry, and keeps the all-wheel-drive sports-car layout, then refines that platform until the car is dialed. The work is constant tweaking, dialing the same car in further and further.

Joe Rogan says people apply kaizen by taking one specific platform and continuing to work on it. In jiu-jitsu, the same continual cycle of improvement is the coach's philosophy.

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