Been saying it for years — “The last true Meritocracy left on earth is a jiu-jitsu or wrestling mat.”

Most everything else in life is “who you know,” “how much money you have” or how much can you B.S. people and make a sale without being detected.

Not on the mats. The mats shine a crystal ball on our character. The good, the bad and the ugly that lives inside of us. The mats reveal all things to us — we can learn every life lesson on the mats that Buddha learned sitting under a tree — and dare us to fix it.