It Doesn't Matter

​Being good at grappling is very useful. It’s certainly one of the more practical sports you can be good at, but it’s not easy and it’s not intuitive. One of the hardest things for me is people quit before they get started. A blue belt knows next to nothing about Jiu Jitsu, but they also know more than a majority of the world. If you get the blue belt blues and give up, you haven’t even scratched the surface of grappling knowledge. This takes a long time and you will probably be bad at it in some way forever. The nice thing is nobody cares. Don’t place your value in this activity, you’re probably good at something else, and it might even be something that people have far more interest in. Being good at martial arts only matters to other people who do martial arts. I promise that my black belt means zero to basically everyone that I talk to in the real world. Don’t make this harder than it already is by expecting it to be easy and don’t make it more important than it is, because it’s only valuable to you.