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You can all drop the polish corridor thing now, BJJ guys: 'After surveying 605 BJJ devotees, 52.9% of whom had undergone a belt whipping, Kavanagh found no evidence that the painful ritual was associated with greater identity fusion overall.' https://psyarxiv.com/cjvsa/
'Despite widespread claims that shared experiences of pain are uniquely able to bind people together, we found that there was no difference on group bonding measures between BJJ practitioners who had experienced belt whipping events during their promotions and those who had not.'
Wonder if these rituals are more about knowing that your brothers are capable of cruelty and violence, thus actually feeling safer among them and emboldened to be violent if necessary
That’s a stretch, in my opinion, but I could well be wrong. Personally it didn’t bother me one bit, it was just a heavy pat on the back....but it takes very little for a band of monkeys to undergo a phase shift from play fighting to brutal beatings.
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