Attrition

It’s very sad, but very few of the people you start training with will make it for your whole journey. They may train somewhere else, or they may stop training all together, but you will see infinitely more people quit than make it to black belt. I have probably seen thousands of people start at white belt, and of those thousands, there’s maybe 20 black belts... maybe. It doesn’t matter where you train, people have reasons for not showing up. The only thing you can control is that you keep showing up, when it’s hard, when it’s fun, you just have to keep showing up.