One of the guys who came over had a Son who should be on The Food Channel. He is 13 years old, and a very good BJJ practioner but also an excellent Chef. He made a Chinese Sea Food Soup that was incredible. (Tom Yum Soup)
One of the reasons we got together is to let our wives meet each other and also to give support to each other as sometimes all married men who do BJJ (unless your wife trains with you) can get the "Why are you going to BJJ so often?" line from wifey. We felt like if our wives could see we were not the only crazy ones that would be good for us. Also there is one guy we invited that trains like Crazy. He does 2 a days plus 2 private lessons a week. He spends over $500 a month on BJJ lessons and I thought that with him there we would all look like slackers by comparison and our wives would see that we were not the most hard core jiujiteors our there.
What started out as a good dinner and a show of how the guys that made more workout did better at Worlds turned into the end of a BJJ Wives Anonymous meeting where the Women just sat and discussed why their husbands could not do this or that because of a BJJ injury or because they were too tired. (This or that has to do with Chores around the house and running errands not other things that may or may not have popped into your mind. At the end of the day all was well. Some of the wives decided we were not so bad and they would let their husbands train more. All in all it was good fun and the wives all seemed to enjoy being together with other wives who have husbands that share the same passion. Also it seemed in the end when the dust had settled most of the Women were happy their husbands were doing BJJ and were willing to let them train as much as they could. They even suggested getting together next month and inviting a couple of wives (and husbands who train elsewhere) to come over and join the fun.
