Ashley Linville

EXPLORE THE WORLD OF RIN

When others fall, we rise.

"They were always there. I can’t remember a time when they were gone. The world which I live in struggles, as do its habitants. We learned early on to make ourselves virtually invisible to fear, by evolving. Elevating our minds to relatively untouchable. Even with all this effort… they still tore us down; down into endless shadows. All I knew is that there was darkness and there was light; the Ravinar, we were always the in-between. And from the dark of the shadows, we will rise into the light once more.”

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EXPLORE THE ART OF JIU-JITSU

Breathe before you suffocate.

"Everyone told me, just breathe. Breathing was the hardest thing I could do. They don’t realize how much fear creeps into you until they are in the same position. How much you must rely on yourself to get out and get on top so that that fear settles back down. In that moment you can’t think, you have to force yourself. Words of encouragement from the sidelines fade away, they are meaningless words if you tune them out. Few people who train can hear your words of guidance. You begin to only focus on one thing. Escaping. Getting out. Doing anything you can think of to keep from suffocating underneath another person. That person is set out to beat you. To win a competition. To keep their own head above water. As a 15-year-old girl, I find it hard to believe that most people would understand how I felt starting Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu."

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