Pat Bateman

A few years into training Jiu Jitsu, I put my practice on hold and moved to the East Coast to pursue a career in real estate. Moving to New York was a massive leap outside my comfort zone, but it changed my life. I landed a job at a real estate startup on Park Avenue, […]

I originally started my jiu jitsu practice in the mid-2000s, about the same time Andrei Arlovski won the heavyweight title in the UFC. I remember watching that fight with a few friends in a second-floor walkup apartment in Wrigleyville on the north side of Chicago. As soon as Bruce Buffer announced him, we were all […]