I'm so glad I ended up in a martial art that involves live sparring.

I spent years trying to find a martial art that suited me. Tai chi lessons, years of research and multiple rejections of BJJ because of the physical proximity...at least a solid five years of active searching.

I remember one night dancing at a local Salsa club and coming out of a cross body lead, I got this nagging feeling that the dance would never quite fulfill an internal need for competition and aggression.

So yeah...looking on Wikipedia under the BJJ article and seeing that the hardness level BJJ registers under is the highest possible for training an art...well, it makes me smile.