Wayling Way
  • last year
WayLing is an art of expression founded by Ruben Joseph aka Lion Heart.
Founded in London Hackney 1976
Transcript
00:00I have done various arts and those arts in which I went into I would say they did fit me.
00:10But the one art that didn't fit me was Brazilian Jiu Jitsu which was the most recent thing I went
00:16into only I think last year or the year before. I went into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu because I wanted to
00:30build myself to a point where okay if I'm taken down to the floor naturally we all know how to
00:36deal with situations when we're on the floor but I want to now be trained in being able to deal with
00:44things when they go to the floor. So I went into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu I was in there until I got my
00:50first bar but I although I enjoyed it at first it was weird yeah because it's like
00:58but you know what his face is breathing in you
01:12it's all mad yeah it's all mad but um I once you get over the initial like whoa
01:19whoa what's going on here um you start to realize the uh the art within it you know
01:26I mean but the reason why I had to stop I got to my first bar reason why I had to stop is because
01:31I started to get um I started uh experiencing issues in my fingers um
01:40I'll do things like I might go to pick up this this bottle and it would hurt my fingers
01:47you know I mean anything I try to pick up it'll hurt my fingers I try to do up my zip it'll hurt
01:51my fingers and I'm like whoa what's going on here and it was the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu because you do
01:56a lot of grabbing of the gi and all these things that they're trying to pull off and they're trying
02:01to pull your hand off you're trying to grab and hold and it's causing issues in your joints
02:08do you know what I'm saying and what happens is from what I understand as I looked it up I can't
02:13remember exactly what he's saying but certain things starts um releasing out of your joints
02:19and it crystallizes and all that and you can start getting like certain um abnormal abnormalities
02:26yeah abnormalities within your knuckles and that to the point where they start looking
02:30like ET fingers and all them things there you know what I'm saying and I saw certain people
02:35like that and I'm looking through the net and I'm seeing people's fingers all like
02:39and I'm saying no no no no no no because initially when I was feeling all of this I was thinking
02:44conditioning this is not for me
02:50you know when you go to the gym and you feel certain pain and you say right it's because
02:54it's the conditioning exactly yeah so I thought with the Jiu Jitsu it's the same thing with my
02:59fingers you understand and when I started to come to the realization that not everybody but some
03:05people will get these type of abnormal fingers and all of that and the fingers are weak and all
03:11these things there I said no no no no I'm trying to better myself I'm not trying to destroy myself
03:18do you know what I mean and because I saw that it was destroying my fingers the me being able to
03:24use my fingers normal normally normally yeah because I'm struggling to use my fingers basically
03:33to even pick up a bottle of a bottle of water or whatever I was like no I have to stop and so I did
03:46and it's also one of the reasons why I didn't get into competitions it was because of my father
03:51and my uncle used to tell me reasons in which I shouldn't get into all of that because they
03:58they got into all of all of that sort of stuff you understand but even though they uh because I
04:04was I always wanted to be fighting and all them thing they were like when I was doing the boxing
04:08I did boxing like when I was 13 yeah do you know what I mean I want to fight do you know what I'm
04:16saying um but I never did get into all of that because of what was being drummed into my head
04:22thing like that do you understand what I'm saying to you but then the one I can't lie one of the
04:28reasons why I got into uh Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is because I start I got into the mind frame like
04:35you know what I don't care what my uncle told me I don't care what my dad told me now I want to go
04:40in the ring and fight yeah understand not show my ting on an ego thing like I have to show everybody
04:51but for myself yeah because I knew that there was a time where I wanted to do that yeah and I
04:55got put off yeah you understand so one day I was like okay so what do I need to do all right
05:03Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu grappling that's one of the things I'll get okay so let me do the Brazilian
05:07Jiu-Jitsu yeah so um yeah that threw me off of it you know what I mean so yeah