Few people have ever choked Mark Zuckerberg. Khai Wu is Definitely one of them.
Educated wrestleer Usually acknowledged As a Outcome of the Shadow, Wu has a black belt in jiujitsu and has been using it on the Fb founder all by way of private mixed martial arts teaching durations the final a quantity of months. Their sparring bouts embrace an occasional down-on-the-mat Brazilian jiujitsu chokehold. “He’s by no means like, ‘Don’t Do this,’” Wu said. “He’s truly requested, ‘Are you able to give me Barely extra resistance, Barely extra strain? I even Want to really feel it.’”
Wu’s Clinic, the Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu Academy in San Jose, Calif., has been seeing A lot of tech guys like Zuckerberg coming in to study to wrestle. “We name them jiujitsu nerds,” he said—Individuals who don’t Appear to be a lot of a menace till they get on the mat. Zuckerberg, a slight 5 foot 7 inches, might not encourage fear Inside the octagon, however his power is in his thoughts. “You’d by no means anticipate these guys To have The power to take you down. Subsequent factor You understand, they’re attacking you with these terribly technical strikes,” Wu said. “You don’t know this nerd is a silent killer.”