Match areas at Long Beach Pyramid / Photo: Mike Colón/GRACIEMAG.com

A quality common to Jiu-Jitsu practitioners is that they never give up, no matter how thorny the path gets. In the following movie you’ll get a look at the saga brown belt Tony Ferraz and juvenile blue belt Robert Rodrigues went through in getting back to Brazil after winning medals at the 2012 Worlds.

Short on cash but with grit to spare, the daring fighters went through comic adventures, moments of drama and plenty of trying ordeals. Get a sense of what they went through, and try not to ever have to get yourself into the same situations they did.