This is a YouTube video titled "The Surprising Rise of Women in Jiu Jitsu" featuring a monologue or talk by a single speaker reflecting on the growth and popularity of women in jiu jitsu and MMA over the past decade, contrasting it with the speaker's own experience starting the sport as a young girl about 20 years ago when it was less common and less socially accepted for girls.
But being a young girl in that environment. So Jiu jitsu now, I love how popular it has gotten over the years, and there's so many amazing women that have, like, just taken this sport by storm. And with, like, along with that, women in the UFC and an MMA and all that, I mean, it's really just exploded over the past probably 10 years. And I love it. But when I first started when I was 11 years old, so, you know, 20 some years ago, it was not very popular for girls. So there was, like, a couple of girls in my class, but they didn't really stick around for very long because it's not very cool being a teenage girl in jiu jitsu, or at least it wasn't at that time. It was not a cool hobby to have.
