Today we talked to Sam Brown, whose performance at the Queen of Hearts tournament from Battle Grappling was a stunner for the books. Sam is a sheep farmer, mom, wife, and Jiu jitsu practitioner who has stuck through the process and is on her way to greatness.

JJIH S2E3 - Erica Guilliot

Jiu Jitsu is hard - pure and simple. Day in and day out, people from diverse backgrounds walk into Jiu jitsu gyms looking to start classes. Unsurprisingly, Jiu Jitsu has close to a 90% attrition rate for new students, so who are the 10% that make it through the first couple months and continue to train? What drives them to continue through brutal workouts that involve contorting into a human sweat pretzel? In Season 1 of Jiu Jitsu is Hard, we’re talking to people who did just that.