Former world longboarding champion Joel Tudor, 31, placed second in his division at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi World Championships in November, and now the San Diego Union Tribune is telling the story of Joel’s new sport.
The San Diego-born surfer began practicing jiu-jitsu five years ago, but said he’s seen it throughout his life, especially when living on Oahu’s North Shore and watching Hawaiian and Brazilian surfers there. Accustomed to the ocean’s physical beatings that sometimes accompany serious surfing, the prospect of jiu-jitsu’s bumps and bruises didn’t faze him.
This will certainly help Joel get along better with some of his Hawai’ian longboarding acquaintances.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
