Privilige

​This will be another uphill both ways in the snow type story, so you’ve been warned. When I started doing Jiu Jitsu there were two or three black belts in the state of Arizona and they were all in Phoenix. I trained under purple belts, and if you wanted to level up there was a yearly conference in Utah where you might get a new belt. All tournaments were at least an hour away and the one you wanted to go to happened quarterly. At least for me, having a coach was more of a luxury than an expectation and the rules were somewhat undefined. I know it’s hard to appreciate what you have when you don’t know how good you have it, but sometimes it’s hard to understand frustration when there’s been so much improvement.