Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gained two medals in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu match Saturday, including to the tech chief’s huge array of extracurricular actions.
The 38-year-old Zuckerberg competed on the BJJ Tour competitors in Woodside, California. He gained the gold medal within the Nogi Grasp 1 White Belt Feather Weight Division and the Silver medal within the Gi Grasp 2 White Belt Feather Weight Division, BJJ Tour confirmed. The utmost for the burden class is 154½ kilos.
The web outcomes checklist him underneath the title Mark Elliot — his first and center names.
“Competed in my first jiu jitsu match and gained some medals for the Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu crew,” Zuckerberg posted on Fb. The submit garnered greater than 40,000 feedback together with from UFC fighter Conor McGregor and jiu-jitsu world champion Bernardo Faria.
On an August 2022 episode of the “Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast, Zuckerberg stated he discovered Jiu-Jitsu to assist enhance his vitality and focus at work. He referred to as the game “primal.” He started training the ability through the pandemic.
Zuckerberg’s coach stated he was impressed by the well-known Fb founder’s potential to proceed to be taught new abilities and settle for challenges for himself.
“Attending to see Zuck compete was fairly epic,” stated Zuckerberg’s coach Kai Wu. “No match was simple and every thing was earned. It was an honor to have the ability to assist coach and supply any recommendation I may.
Zuckerberg has given himself a sequence of annual challenges, together with studying Chinese language and killing all meat that he eats. He succeeded in giving a 20-minute speech in Mandarin whereas visiting Tsingua College in Beijing in 2015.
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