Hey, guys! You know I've been making my documentary
"Simply Complicated," but I wanted to share something with you
that didn't make it into the film.
So check out the full feature on my YouTube channel.
In the meantime, enjoy this short video of my jiu-jitsu practice.
( laughing )
Don't use that!
So I started getting into jiu-jitsu
about over a year ago.
I fell in love with MMA.
This is a key part of training mixed martial arts
so I decided to start taking jits and here I am.
I'm Danielle Martin. I'm Demi's Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor,
and today I'm going to take you through a couple moves with Demi.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is about technique and leverage beating strength.
So, I believe it's probably one of the most efficient martial arts.
In jiu-jitsu usually at the beginning of class
we do some type of warm up.
Sometimes you're gonna see jumping jacks,
push-ups, squats, strengthen and loosen up our necks,
our backs, by doing technical types of things
that pertain to the training we're gonna be doing that day.
I don't want you to get hurt
being kind of in between.
Big knees, we're going to my knees.
Demi: Knees, knees, knees, knees, knees.
Danielle:
She has such a natural instinct as a fighter.
She picks up things so easily and she can read techniques
and she's got that feel, she just has that it thing.
Demi:
she's very, very technical
so whenever I trained with her,
I knew that I was going to get a lot better
just because she is so specific with every little detail.
Danielle: So, if you pull out here
the person's gonna go out there.
You wanna pull down here so that they're here.
Okay, one more time.
- Demi: Ah, fuck. - Danielle: It's okay.
Sometimes those mistakes turn into something really good
So don't be perfect every time.
So capitalize on the mistake, recover the position.
'Cause what you don't want to do is try to go
"I'm gonna stick to that technique"
and now they're already reversing something on you
and you go right into their little trap.
Let's train-- let's grab a quick drink of water
and then we're gonna train rounds.
Now we're up.
We're always talking like this.
Demi: Yeah, I could be a ventriloquist.
Oh, my God. That's really good.
- Demi: I can do it really well. - ( laughs )
Demi: I used to be in pageants and so the ventriloquist there
and so I kinda picked up on it.
The weirder side, is that I could probably sing doing this.
I was just gonna say, try to sing like that.
( indistinct singing )
Five minute round. Here we go.
Now you know why I get hit sometimes.
Yeah. ( chuckles )
Danielle: Weasel your hip almost like...
weasel the hip.
Let's get heavy. Turn the hip this way.
See how you can slide it out? There you go.
Danielle :
and battles with and the adversity in her life
which only made me respect her more,
and it made me want to work with her more
because I knew that I could make a difference
and an impact in her life with jiu-jitsu
but also just being there for her
and sharing my experiences in life and my adversities.
It's not about how we fall but how get up.
That's what defines us.
It's impacted my daily life because it's a hobby of mine now.
It's something that takes me out of my mind
and it's almost meditative in a way.
It's made me stronger I think as a person
because it's just given me more confidence.
My ultimate goal here would be to be a black belt someday
but I gotta work a lot harder for a long time
to get that, so, that'll be in many years.