I was born in Lima, Peru, raised in a middle-class family, and moved to the United States in 1999. My father, a martial arts enthusiast , enrolled my brother and me in different styles of martial arts Karate, Kung Fu and Judo. I can say that for most of my youth I practiced more martial arts than our national sport called football. At thirteen I was about to see something on TV that would impact my future. On November 12, 1993, my father and I were watching a show called Ultimate Fighting Championship, also known as UFC. This TV event was about a group of eight fighters from different martial arts such as Judo, Karate, Sumo, Kung Fu, Boxing, Muay Thai, Sambo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, who will fight each other to see who is the ultimate fighter and the best art martial of all (the history of the UFC). Royce Gracie originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, weighs no more than 170 pounds and is five feet nine inches tall. He won every single fight by submission and was proclaimed the first UFC world champion. His opponents outweighed him by more than fifty pounds, and most of them were taller than him. We were amazed at how easily and quickly he beat them without a single punch or kick. I asked my father if he could find a place in the city where I could train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, but at that time he couldn't find any academy or gym where they taught this art. Nobody knew that martial art and the only two places to train were in Brazil and the United States. Jiu Jitsu is a martial art originating from Japan. Jiu Jitsu was used as a weapon by samurai from the 8th to the 16th century, and was primarily used on the battlefield. Jiu Jitsu means “gentle art” in Japanese because the technique of this martial......middle of paper......not physical exam the result said I was so close to the limit of having high cholesterol. According to the chart My father asked me if I was interested in doing some exercises, so I joined a local gym to lift weights. I was at that gym for a month, but I was lost and felt like I didn't belong there. After a month I was still 38 kilos overweight and on some days even more. I started changing my diet, but with no better results I started trying to train something else. I remembered my old interest in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so I started looking for a place to train. This time was different from my search in Miami, because I was able to find a place close to my house. This gym was Brazilian Top Team Boston, located in Everett. It is only a ten minute drive from Cambridge and has the best reputation in Massachusetts and New England.