Take a beating

We just opened our first stand alone location, and I had a brown belt walk in that trains somewhere else, but my spot is close to his house, so he wanted to come check it out in case he wanted to train, but couldn’t make the drive to his regular place. What he said after we got done training got me thinking. He said that a reason he didn’t want his own school, was you never know what will walk in the door, that it took “balls” to have some rando walk in off the street and just say yes to training with them. I never really thought about it until then, because that was always the example. When someone walked in the door, we always rolled with them. I remember watching a 165lb purple belt be a consistent training partner of a 320lb purple belt former college offensive lineman. That was the example that was set for me. Somebody’s going to take the beating, why not you? You’ll only improve from there.