Jason Mertlich: Fighting is a Team Effort

Jason Mertlich likes the number 47.Many believe 47 is the universe’s quintessential random number. It’s a prime, a safe prime, a supersingular prime, a Lucas prime and an Eisenstein prime for starters. It’s also the number of ronin or lordless samurai in the Japanese epic about a warrior’s code of honor. On the periodic table, 47 is the atomic number of silver, the most reflective known metal in the world, whose uses range from currency and jewelry to water filtration and X-rays. So when it came time for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt to claim ownership of and put … Read the Full Article Here