Blue Belt

​Why do many people stop at blue belt? I think most people stop at blue belt, because it makes you realize how much work you’ll have to do to be a black belt. Let’s say that it takes you a year and a half to get a blue belt and you continue that trend all the way to black belt, that is six years. That will probably only happen if you are training consistently with no injuries or life events. If you’ve trained, you probably know that extenuating circumstances get in the way of grappling, so it probably won’t be six years. If you’re a blue belt, you are ahead of the majority in terms of skill, so you look at that mountain and just nope your way out of continuing the climb. I understand that this is hard, but coming back is harder. It is more difficult to restart and regain the skills you lost than to stop. If Jiu Jitsu needs to take a backseat, let it, but don’t stop. You will regret it.