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Grappling Arts Allow Honest Testing of Skill

Grappling arts like Brazilian jiu-jitsu can be trained at near-full force without serious injury, so unlike traditional martial arts there is no luck or pretense involved: a much better practitioner will defeat you 100% of the time, making it as decisive a test of real skill as chess and exposing fraudulent martial arts whose practitioners only pretend to be effective.

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Sam Harris

Evidence Quote

with jujitsu you can really test to see whether something works and there's really no luck involved

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Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:37 AM

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