I think when girl come, they start off with this idea that fighting is like scary, hard, and that they're nice and gentle, and they come in and at first it's hard and at first they're playing catch up and they feel behind and then every week they kind of gain a little more, they learn a little more and they put a couple more tools in their toolbox.

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I don't know if you know but a long time ago I found you on Facebook I messaged you on Facebook and I was going to do a private group for girl like our girls because there's a lot and their friends are the whole group of them and I just haven't got my life together to have you do it yet but

I was like I need to talk to her about more about what she's doing why she's doing it and then we have this team in twin group and I was like there must be a reason we need this so why don't you tell people who you are what you do why you do it yeah okay so I'm going there we are okay well I'm jamma I am from Toronto oh yeah we're recording we're good oh you're there now oh you can see me

well your hands over the cup your your covering it was something it's red oh that's that's fine just carry on okay well I'm jamma I'm from Toronto and I started doing martial arts when I was 14 before that I had done a lot of different sports but I was never I never really shined at anything and when I found kickboxing first it was the first thing that I actually felt kind of talented that after a while and everyone around me wasn't so encouraged to do it.

I was just a little bit more challenging and kind of convinced me to start trying competition so I started with that and then I I started doing to jitsu and wrestling and and before I knew it my only goal was to be like the next big UFC star and wow yeah fighter and all that so I pursued that I did that for about eight years after that where like all throughout high school university I just trained and competed and it was going super well like my my

career was going well with fighting and I felt very very on track for my goal and then when I was 22 my doctor told me I had something called white hyper intensities which is visible brain damage so it's not like a concussion where you I have had concussions too but it's not like a concussion where you can kind of see or you where you don't see the damage they said that they could actually see a lot of damage

in my brain and that that was linked to a lot of degenerative diseases like dementia and MS and and these other things and you're really not supposed to see it in young people so that from fighting.

Yeah that was that that was an interesting day because it was funny because I had I had to have so many doctors advised me to stop fighting before but only for like stupid things like not having cartilage in my knees or like

your nerve damage in my elbows just you know regular no big deal no big deal okay brain is what took you out.

Well yeah well not not originally not at first I actually didn't tell anyone and I started training for my next fight at that point.

Oh jamma you didn't tell your mom did you because every moment here is like are you not right now I did not go home and tell my mom I had this whole brain damage

on age 22 but I did obviously it impacted me a lot so even though I didn't tell anyone about it I still knew about it and it really impacted how I spard I was more scared and hesitant to go in there and like get close to people and punching range and it just threw everything off and luckily the girl that I was supposed to fight can't like she backed out of the fight.

So I had some time to think about what I was doing with my life and if it's actually what I wanted and it's kind of crazy but up until that point I hadn't really thought about like why I wanted to be an MMA fighter and my coach one day asked me he actually made me write down like do some homework and answer why I wanted to be an MMA fighter and I think it really came down to me wanting to be significant and have that thing make me like rich and famous and just feel super cool and I'm going to do it.

I love super cool and I loved how cool everyone thought I was at school and in the community and I love being someone that people kind of knew but other than that it didn't it didn't really have a lot of a reward.

Yeah it didn't and I started looking at like okay if I zoom out because I'm a main me seem like many feel like such a big deal and it seemed like a big deal but it didn't really impact anything beyond me and when I looked at it like that and just other things like how short lived a fighting spotlight is like and watching people like ronda rousey and other fighters who are so big and then they lose and they just go off the rails and like suddenly they lose all their they lose like movie contrast.

And nobody you know because they lose well they lose as soon as you lose a couple fights people people stop being interested in you and you can get fired from the UFC so it's it's very sure it's very very highly competitive and it's it's really non stop the stress on your body and how old were you when you had the self check.

22.

22 and so then what did you do when you knew you you had this moment in time where you had to do homework.

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