If I didn't want to teach anymore, I wouldn't have to make instructionals, I wouldn't have to teach privates or seminars - I could just make a living through competing. Whereas now, I think we're kinda bridging the gap where, for the first time ever, you can start making money just as being an athlete. You'd have to win your titles, accomplish what you wanted to, and then you'd have to either open up a school or you'd have to start fighting MMA in order to make money. It was very amateur for the generations before me, and there was no way to make money through jiu-jitsu. “You pretty much had to be there live to even watch it, and then you'd wait for to come out with the results and that's how you'd find it. “Ten years ago, it was almost impossible to even watch the worlds or ADCC or a replay of it,” said Ryan. Couple that with the technology and services like UFC FIGHT PASS that bring the sport to the masses in ways it never has, and it’s been a perfect storm to not just make the 27-year-old a star, but to allow him to make a living at his art. Yet, at the same time, to his fans and a new generation of players in “the gentle art,” he’s made grappling cool. “It's always refreshing to go against someone who doesn't hate me,” laughs Ryan, whose confidence, willing to say whatever’s on his mind and social media presence has rubbed some members of the jiu-jitsu world the wrong way. That must be nice to enter a match with nothing but competing on your mind.
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