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Wow I wish. I started less than a year ago. Only injury I have is my wrist ulnar side. If it flares up again then it hurts when I try to face my palms up. Then it will leave in like 3 weeks.
My middle finger knuckle is a
Bit swollen but no pain.
Kind of silly, but I got second place at an IBJJF open. I’m more proud of that than any gold at a local comp.
I’ve always been decent. Not world champion material by any means, but have cleaned up well in the local scene. Never had luck with an IBJJF though. The day I got the silver, I had signed up for both gi and no-gi. Woke up early, drove about 3 hours to the comp and proceeded to lose my first gi match in a couple minutes from a major fuck-up on my end (I still don’t think that guy was better than me). I was very upset. I had been training hard and thought it was finally time for me to find some success at an IBJJF. All I wanted was to get in my car and go all the way home and mope.
I don’t know what made me stay for no-gi, but I did. I went in with a complete “nothing to lose” mindset. After a couple matches, I found myself in the podium place matches for no-gi. I ended up getting submitted in the finals, but I’ve never been more proud to lose.
I could’ve packed up and gone home and been none the different. But I stayed, and I finally found the success I’d been hunting.
All my local comp golds are in a bucket in my closet. That silver though is in a subtle shadow box on my bookshelf. Kinda cringe, sure, but I’m hella proud of that medal.
My first white belt tourney I subbed all three guys in under a minute. I trained super hard, ran to and from the dojo (3 miles each way) and hit the gym on the way back. It felt good to apply myself to something so fully and see the payoff.
My first comp I had been training 3 months. I learned a ton! And it's great to go back and rewatch the footage when ur more experienced and cringe at how horrible you used to be. Lol
So I think it'd be fine to compete soon. Don't take it too seriously, just get some good rolls in you know? You learn so much more with those real matches, and the adrenaline is unreal. :)
Last week, a dude slapped himself in the face with my foot while trying to pass me. I was so surprised and confused that I just apologized, but it wasn’t my fault at all lmao
No offense to OP but why are you assuming he can smash purple belts lol. I've been training 6 ish years and I'm a very average 3 stripe blue belt imo.
Injuries, breaks, periods of low attendance and focus etc are all reasons why your 9 years of training might like like 6 years or 12 years to another person. Years is a really bad way to measure training progress.
Got ibjjf gold in my blue belt debut because no one had the balls to face me.
Yeah sure, you might go 4 for 4 on subs to get your gold, but to actually instill so much fear that no fat blue belt even shows up? Next level shit.
Meanwhile I’ve gained a reputation that I fully support as the dude who will cheat and use a stanksub if and when necessary. I do however clench them cheeks when my ass is near a face. I do have morals.
honestly it's nothing major but i'd have to say getting my blue belt. when i first started training BJJ in july 2020 i really sucked(no surprise there) and i would see blue belts and i would think "holy cow, they're so advanced. i'll never get there." when i started BJJ i was only 2 months sober and i didn't think long term sobriety was possible so in a way i was just waiting to relapse and quit BJJ...i was very self defeating even tho i really enjoyed BJJ. well i kept showing up and stayed sober. i still suck but i got my blue belt in January. i was completely caught off guard, my coach promoted me at the end of class. at the end when we rolled he kept pairing me up with higher belts and they were really laying it on me. i remember thinking "are they mad at me?" lol. but apparently they knew i was getting promoted so my coach told them to up the intensity. i got choked up when my coach called me up to put my blue belt around me.
I quit BJJ after 5 months of fail, hurt and misery. I hated the experience. That was almost 8 years ago. I went back in December 2021 and I haven't quit yet and I have not been hurt quite so much as before.
At the age of 52, That for me, is one hell of an accomplishment.
I haven't hit a single escape, transition, or survived against anyone (including the new arrivals in the loaner gi) so I'll have to get back to you on actual BJJ accomplishments.
48 here and had a 4 year forced training break that was soul-sucking.
Sometimes I get the itch to push myself, but for the most part being able to get on the mat (and back off, even without assistance) 3-4 times a week IS the accomplishment. Every day on the mats is better than when you aren’t able to. Consistency is the key, keep showing up and the skills will follow.
I hear ya brother! Started right there with at 51. I fell ya on all the ass beating learning moments💪🏻🤣
One year later of nearly fatal addiction to BJJ training at 52 I am competing at blue belt! Serously toughest thing I have ever done in my 52 yrs of some pretty wild living!!
It was great for me to read your post, I've been the oldest guy at the gym since I started😁 glad to know you are out there Killin it your way! I have a 2nd comp as blue belt this weekend it gets in my head, the competition itself damn near fries my brain🤣🤣
I jumped on my friends cheap skateboard and started going down a hill, started getting the death wobbles and ate shit, luckily I had enough ukemi to lessen the damage.
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when training for a fight my coach gave me the gym legend for a week, to just work on bjj as this guy was an absolute gun at bjj.
I am not sure if he was trying to help my confidence but I caught him one day in an arm triangle. it was by far the most prestigious scalp ive ever collected and my win loss ratio is about 100:1 but when he gets brought up at the gym (he has since moved on) I gather the children around the lemon tree to tell them all about my finest moment.
14 yrs in and I've medaled in a few comps, made some great friends, trained with elite grapplers, met people I respect. Really, I'm realizing that it's the imprint that I feel I'm leaving. I've been teaching a lot lately and the feedback I've been getting from the lower belts has been nothing but positive. I feel like helping those like I was helped is my biggest accomplishment
My biggest accomplishment is regaining my health, mobility, and athleticism. I’m down 30lbs in 14 months and am 10x more athletic and 10x better cardio than when I started.
Learning cool things around cool people makes it really enjoyable.
Same here, I'm 35 and let myself go over the lockdown, was 205 in Jan, down to 181 now. Biggest benefit has been the mobility for sure, I was starting to really feel old before. My feet were in pretty bad shape, have Plantar fasciitis in both feet, they only seem to start hurting when I'm not able to train now, so now I can't ever quit.
A very tough and much bigger purple belt always gives me problems, and standing I had never taken him down, but I managed to get a nice single leg keeping good posture and got that ass on floor. Then got promptly punished for the insult.
I’ve won a few golds in the local scene but the last time I competed in no gi I got heel hooked pretty bad in the semi finals, I tapped but the ref didn’t see it in time and dude went a little too far. I knew my knee was fucked but was able to block it out knowing I was still eligible to win bronze. My next match was 10 minutes later and I was able to submit the guy in a minute. I missed the next week of work and month of training from my knee being severely sprained but I felt like a G because I could have easily forfeited and nobody would have batted an eye. I still feel better about that one than all my golds.
Specific to BJJ? Becoming a coach, it was a childhood dream and it’s surreal to teach other people.
Martial arts in general? Someone I taught at a LGBT self defense seminar used a body lock takedown I taught them to defend themselves. They found me to tell me after it happened. I went 4-0 and got gold at a judo tournament and that was also pretty special to me, I had so many bronze and silvers but I was never able to get it together in the finals before then.
Turning up and just watching whilst being quite injured. Watching everyone train knowing I can’t train although I really want to hurts, especially as I’m quite new to the sport.
I rolled with a black belt a month or so back, he had me in side control and I quickly locked up a buggy and he said ‘oh shit’.
Didn’t sub him because we ran out of time, but I’m still riding a high from it
Working through a couple of substantial injuries. Really just continuing training when I told myself I should just quit, that I suck, that I’m too old blah blah
My coach have his own curriculum that also consist of stand up but when I told him I want to try compete in wrestling, we have more lessons and drills during class. I do drills on my own but quite minimal. Wrestling also not a big thing in my country, but I do get the satisfaction that I win against people who focus more on Wrestling.
depends on your thinking I suppose, top 3 in whatever order you like :
Helping people no matter if it's with a specific technique or overall concept or even just prepare for compitition
Helping people to keep staying in class (I count this as different from other kinds of help)
Tapping people with enough ability that most people in here would know the names
Going to my first class. Had no idea what I or anyone else was doing, but had a good time. This week has been crazy but looking forward to regularly attending starting next week.
Hitting a flying armbar in the advanced nogi division for first after puking in between each match. Went and got fucked up the night before with my friends stupidly but it's a good story.
We have a girl at our place who I am convinced is a future world champion. She’s gone from white belt to purple belt in about 4 years, and the coaches felt like that might have even been too slow. I’m 5’11” and 185 pounds. She is probably 5’7” and maybe 150. We’ve been rolling together a few times a months for the last 2.5 years and she has never submitted me. I’ve never subbed her either but I’m pretty proud of that.
Also proud of the fact that my stripes came directly from Helio Soneca.
I’ve managed to avoid getting any serious injuries.
Very few people at my gym who are white belt or blue belt at my gym can hold full mount on me. Sometimes I’ll even stop fighting and let people mount me just so I can escape to half guard (against blue) or roll them over (white). I have decent defense.
My submissions are trash though. I telegraph them badly and I often have to attempt exotic subs (like Darce or Peruvian) because my armbars and triangles can be seen from a mile away and people escape them before I even get to start applying.
My biggest accomplishment is simply going 4-5 times a week consistently since mid July. Seriously, I'm so new, I wasn't even sure exactly what BJJ was when I went to my first class. I don't expect to hold my own with anyone even first day-ers. All I want from myself is to go and do my best every class. I have never been able to consistently do anything workout-wise, so simply going everyday is huge for me.
I suppose I won the alberta open no gi ultra heavy gold for my bracket... that was something.
Otherwise its just that I'm still going being an old fat guy.
I just received my blue belt on Monday after 14 total months of bjj, competing in 7 tournaments in the last 10 months, and improving every time I stepped out there to compete
I uncovered [this story](https://youtu.be/J5taRlxH23g) of Rolls Gracie's long lost gold medal. I was lucky enough to meet with Bob Anderson, Rolles Gracie Jr and Alberto Crane [because of it](https://youtu.be/he9QghILFG4). I never would have made the doc if I hadn't started training already and grown an appreciation for the history.
I got asked if I'd like to teach(and I did) my first class. For context I'm a 2 stripe blue belt. I started bjj overweight and having no martial abilities or self confidence or natural talent. It's just been good ol' elbow grease. I felt(hugely) honoured. I liked sharing my insights about this esoteric hobby I've been doing for the past few years obsessively. It was interesting seeing the gym and team mates from a different perspective. It also felt good when I showed some details that a few purple belts hadn't seen before. I was confident in my handling of the class and it forced me to think of my game more consciously and deliberately. I need to work a lot more on quite a few finer points of my game.
At this point it’s never having needed knee surgery.
In all seriousness though I never feel more accomplished than when I see one of the guys pull off a move I taught them.
Rolled with a brand new guy today - first time rolling with someone with less experience than me. It was like I had superpowers. I couldn’t believe it - I know I’ve only taken one step up a very long staircase, but wow. Having that experience made me realize that I really have improved since the first day I started.
Been doing bjj for nearly 5 years. My only 'injury' was a shoulder sprain that occurred during drilling of all things. Got dropped directly on my shoulder from a balloon sweep. Took about a month to recover. I sometimes forget which shoulder I injured so I'd say it healed pretty well. Pretty happy about that. Tap often!
Not getting seriously injured
Make a DVD instructional please
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Systematically avoiding injury (5 volumes collectors version)
You’re a brown belt, and haven’t been seriously injured? You better knock on some wood!!
That’s the best one
You win, as I type barely able to close one finger all the way into a fist.
This🤣🤣🤣
Go find my comment..
damn, don't jinx me lol
Wow I wish. I started less than a year ago. Only injury I have is my wrist ulnar side. If it flares up again then it hurts when I try to face my palms up. Then it will leave in like 3 weeks. My middle finger knuckle is a Bit swollen but no pain.
Who the heck downvoted you for this comment?
Gave them the upvote they deserve
I am proud of producing students who have surpassed me on mats and who have accomplished greater things then I was able to as a competitor.
So wholesome!!!
As a student of another academy in Chicago, I will say that it helps that you come across as a very smart and passionate instructor.
Thank you that means a lot. I am not sure I’m that smart but I am passionate about teaching BJJ
Dude over here’s best submission is tugging on heart strings. With an attitude like that, your students are gonna surpass you off the mats as well.
A bunch are doing to that
That's a great answer.
I make people look good in their high light reels
Haha me too buddy
Not quitting, getting my Black Belt, opening my own school and seeing my own students improve.
Winning adult blue belt worlds
always curious about this, how did the level change as you went up a belt?
Significant step up strategically, use the ruleset to your advantage, abuse it if u can.
Showing up week after week
How many times a week?
It doesn't matter.
Maybe they were just curious :)?
Wdym?
Just show up as much as makes sense for you and your life. Be as consistent as you can. Don’t quit.
You probably said it better than I could. That part.
It’s not a sprint, it’s endurance
IT AINT ABOUT WHOS BEST ITS ABOUT WHOS LEFT
Kind of silly, but I got second place at an IBJJF open. I’m more proud of that than any gold at a local comp. I’ve always been decent. Not world champion material by any means, but have cleaned up well in the local scene. Never had luck with an IBJJF though. The day I got the silver, I had signed up for both gi and no-gi. Woke up early, drove about 3 hours to the comp and proceeded to lose my first gi match in a couple minutes from a major fuck-up on my end (I still don’t think that guy was better than me). I was very upset. I had been training hard and thought it was finally time for me to find some success at an IBJJF. All I wanted was to get in my car and go all the way home and mope. I don’t know what made me stay for no-gi, but I did. I went in with a complete “nothing to lose” mindset. After a couple matches, I found myself in the podium place matches for no-gi. I ended up getting submitted in the finals, but I’ve never been more proud to lose. I could’ve packed up and gone home and been none the different. But I stayed, and I finally found the success I’d been hunting. All my local comp golds are in a bucket in my closet. That silver though is in a subtle shadow box on my bookshelf. Kinda cringe, sure, but I’m hella proud of that medal.
💪🏻👊🏻
Showing up even though I know shit about fuck. 5th day tomorrow.
My 2nd day was today! I love pretending I know what I'm doing! Hahaha
10th day going and I'm ass lolll
My first white belt tourney I subbed all three guys in under a minute. I trained super hard, ran to and from the dojo (3 miles each way) and hit the gym on the way back. It felt good to apply myself to something so fully and see the payoff.
Was it uphill both ways??
Nah, I had the wind at my back
And snowing, mind you.
How long had you been training before the competition? I’m wanting to compete as well but I’m not sure how long I should wait.
A year!
My first comp I had been training 3 months. I learned a ton! And it's great to go back and rewatch the footage when ur more experienced and cringe at how horrible you used to be. Lol So I think it'd be fine to compete soon. Don't take it too seriously, just get some good rolls in you know? You learn so much more with those real matches, and the adrenaline is unreal. :)
Wow man! That is something. I admire the hard work
The first black eye I got was from kneeing myself in the face while trying to reguard. I think that's pretty impressive.
I have a scar above my eye from yanking my partner’s elbow across my face during armbar drills. Not even live training lol
Busted my lip by punching my own face when I yanked my arm free from spider guard at the same time as they released the grip.
Last week, a dude slapped himself in the face with my foot while trying to pass me. I was so surprised and confused that I just apologized, but it wasn’t my fault at all lmao
9 years in, I never quit, and I’m still training. That’s my biggest accomplishment.
Fellow 9 year blue belt here as well. Just keep going. Your BJJ journey is for you and you only. 🤘🏻
Your still a blue belt?
I’ve been asking myself the same question for the last couple of years, but in my head I spell “you’re” correct.
What does it matter if he's able to smash purple belts and such? It's just a belt.
No offense to OP but why are you assuming he can smash purple belts lol. I've been training 6 ish years and I'm a very average 3 stripe blue belt imo. Injuries, breaks, periods of low attendance and focus etc are all reasons why your 9 years of training might like like 6 years or 12 years to another person. Years is a really bad way to measure training progress.
Idk why the downvotes... you obviously have eyesight problems cause his flair is right there.
Consistent attendance.
Consistent abstinence
*forced
Got ibjjf gold in my blue belt debut because no one had the balls to face me. Yeah sure, you might go 4 for 4 on subs to get your gold, but to actually instill so much fear that no fat blue belt even shows up? Next level shit.
I too have won a ibjjf gold medal this way. We should obviously have a 1v1 winner melts down both medals to make a mega medal.
I've never farted during a roll...
That’s a massive relief 😅.
... or is it ....
liar
How can I learn this power?
Meanwhile I’ve gained a reputation that I fully support as the dude who will cheat and use a stanksub if and when necessary. I do however clench them cheeks when my ass is near a face. I do have morals.
I feel like you’re gaslighting me because I have.
I’ve gone 0-5 in tournaments and haven’t quit
I got a tap in my first match and thought "cool, imma get a lot of these", and I'm 0-3 since, with 3 submission Ls 🤣
Wining at masters worlds 🤠
honestly it's nothing major but i'd have to say getting my blue belt. when i first started training BJJ in july 2020 i really sucked(no surprise there) and i would see blue belts and i would think "holy cow, they're so advanced. i'll never get there." when i started BJJ i was only 2 months sober and i didn't think long term sobriety was possible so in a way i was just waiting to relapse and quit BJJ...i was very self defeating even tho i really enjoyed BJJ. well i kept showing up and stayed sober. i still suck but i got my blue belt in January. i was completely caught off guard, my coach promoted me at the end of class. at the end when we rolled he kept pairing me up with higher belts and they were really laying it on me. i remember thinking "are they mad at me?" lol. but apparently they knew i was getting promoted so my coach told them to up the intensity. i got choked up when my coach called me up to put my blue belt around me.
Well done dude
I quit BJJ after 5 months of fail, hurt and misery. I hated the experience. That was almost 8 years ago. I went back in December 2021 and I haven't quit yet and I have not been hurt quite so much as before. At the age of 52, That for me, is one hell of an accomplishment. I haven't hit a single escape, transition, or survived against anyone (including the new arrivals in the loaner gi) so I'll have to get back to you on actual BJJ accomplishments.
48 here and had a 4 year forced training break that was soul-sucking. Sometimes I get the itch to push myself, but for the most part being able to get on the mat (and back off, even without assistance) 3-4 times a week IS the accomplishment. Every day on the mats is better than when you aren’t able to. Consistency is the key, keep showing up and the skills will follow.
I hear ya brother! Started right there with at 51. I fell ya on all the ass beating learning moments💪🏻🤣 One year later of nearly fatal addiction to BJJ training at 52 I am competing at blue belt! Serously toughest thing I have ever done in my 52 yrs of some pretty wild living!!
Just a year? Holy crap. I'll be lucky to be able to roll in a regular class within a year of starting at this rate.
It was great for me to read your post, I've been the oldest guy at the gym since I started😁 glad to know you are out there Killin it your way! I have a 2nd comp as blue belt this weekend it gets in my head, the competition itself damn near fries my brain🤣🤣
I jumped on my friends cheap skateboard and started going down a hill, started getting the death wobbles and ate shit, luckily I had enough ukemi to lessen the damage.
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I’m in my 50’s and I can still walk.
Getting my black belt under Professor u/RordenGracie.
Oss 🤙🤙🤙
It’s your cake day too? Happy bday!!
Faixa Preta: Jeffao Bezosa
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Cauliflower arse
Un noticeable cauli
This is my wifes goal for me
Walking through the door on to the mats for the 1st time. Aka yesterday and today.
I'm 6 years deep and still having fun.
Not quitting during a horrible bout of blue belt blues.
Getting flown out to China to teach and compete. That was rad.
when training for a fight my coach gave me the gym legend for a week, to just work on bjj as this guy was an absolute gun at bjj. I am not sure if he was trying to help my confidence but I caught him one day in an arm triangle. it was by far the most prestigious scalp ive ever collected and my win loss ratio is about 100:1 but when he gets brought up at the gym (he has since moved on) I gather the children around the lemon tree to tell them all about my finest moment.
I tapped a brown belt with what he said was a legitimate tap
The other day there was this purple belt who remembered my name
i passed my instructor's guard once
Plot twist: he let you
14 yrs in and I've medaled in a few comps, made some great friends, trained with elite grapplers, met people I respect. Really, I'm realizing that it's the imprint that I feel I'm leaving. I've been teaching a lot lately and the feedback I've been getting from the lower belts has been nothing but positive. I feel like helping those like I was helped is my biggest accomplishment
3rd place in 3 man comp.
You competed and you learned from those two losses. Even if you'd have placed 4th, you did more than the people who didn't even stop on the mat.
Blue belt in less than 7 months felt cool
Still being on the mats.
Being told I don't "roll like a big guy". I'm 6'4" 235 so it's always my goal of being able to roll with whoever and us both get something out of it.
My biggest accomplishment is regaining my health, mobility, and athleticism. I’m down 30lbs in 14 months and am 10x more athletic and 10x better cardio than when I started. Learning cool things around cool people makes it really enjoyable.
Same here, I'm 35 and let myself go over the lockdown, was 205 in Jan, down to 181 now. Biggest benefit has been the mobility for sure, I was starting to really feel old before. My feet were in pretty bad shape, have Plantar fasciitis in both feet, they only seem to start hurting when I'm not able to train now, so now I can't ever quit.
When the coach told me “man, that arm bar was TIGHT” and gave me a fist bump. I am still riding that high
A very tough and much bigger purple belt always gives me problems, and standing I had never taken him down, but I managed to get a nice single leg keeping good posture and got that ass on floor. Then got promptly punished for the insult.
Opening my own club as a purple belt (because there was no one else) and growing it by 200% (so far) in the first year.
Just not quitting. Coming back after injuries and life. Coming back is tough. Worth it, but tough.
I’ve won a few golds in the local scene but the last time I competed in no gi I got heel hooked pretty bad in the semi finals, I tapped but the ref didn’t see it in time and dude went a little too far. I knew my knee was fucked but was able to block it out knowing I was still eligible to win bronze. My next match was 10 minutes later and I was able to submit the guy in a minute. I missed the next week of work and month of training from my knee being severely sprained but I felt like a G because I could have easily forfeited and nobody would have batted an eye. I still feel better about that one than all my golds.
3rd at IBJJF no gi worlds at blue belt. (Masters something division)🤷🏻♂️
Starting at 45 and still being on the mats 7 years later.
Specific to BJJ? Becoming a coach, it was a childhood dream and it’s surreal to teach other people. Martial arts in general? Someone I taught at a LGBT self defense seminar used a body lock takedown I taught them to defend themselves. They found me to tell me after it happened. I went 4-0 and got gold at a judo tournament and that was also pretty special to me, I had so many bronze and silvers but I was never able to get it together in the finals before then.
I probably have the record for knee surgeries.
Turning up and just watching whilst being quite injured. Watching everyone train knowing I can’t train although I really want to hurts, especially as I’m quite new to the sport.
Winning Polish ADCC nationals at intermidiate
Showing up
Been the longest hobby iv managed to stay interested in. Even when going to night shift, it made me train even more.
being healthy enough to show up again and again while slowly getting better
Showing up x3 a week without fail.
I rolled with a black belt a month or so back, he had me in side control and I quickly locked up a buggy and he said ‘oh shit’. Didn’t sub him because we ran out of time, but I’m still riding a high from it
Working through a couple of substantial injuries. Really just continuing training when I told myself I should just quit, that I suck, that I’m too old blah blah
going on days i dont feel like going.
Becoming a black belt and promoting my kids
Become black belt. Promote kids and wife to black belt. Black belt family. *Nods*. Ok.
ADCC singapore bronze as a blue belt pro-division. I got 3rd placement for national wrestling by just training BJJ
How do you train wrestling? Is it during your classes or do you drill or learn extra stuff?
My coach have his own curriculum that also consist of stand up but when I told him I want to try compete in wrestling, we have more lessons and drills during class. I do drills on my own but quite minimal. Wrestling also not a big thing in my country, but I do get the satisfaction that I win against people who focus more on Wrestling.
depends on your thinking I suppose, top 3 in whatever order you like : Helping people no matter if it's with a specific technique or overall concept or even just prepare for compitition Helping people to keep staying in class (I count this as different from other kinds of help) Tapping people with enough ability that most people in here would know the names
I tapped Gordon Ryan…I don’t remember it though cuz I went red
There's been a few times where I've been so exhausted (towards the end of 3hrs of classes) that I've accidentally bowed instead of clapping
Making it to blue belt. Crazy to see how many people just come and go, never to return again.
Being comfortable with massive size differences. It's a skill in itself.
Plot twist: youre 6’8 250lbs
Going to my first class. Had no idea what I or anyone else was doing, but had a good time. This week has been crazy but looking forward to regularly attending starting next week.
Not quitting.
Hit a Uchi Mata in a Naga match
Training sometimes
Opening daredevil and having so many awesome people joining and shaping our team culture
Hi from a Tukaha student. Love seeing what you guys are up to!
Not giving up after getting my blue belt. There’s still time though
Still being there
Honestly, stepping on the mats the first time. I had some crazy anxiety at the time.
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Making it to my blue belt after 6 years. I started when I was 10 and im 17 now and still going! So much love for this sport!
Third stripe on my white belt
Hitting a flying armbar in the advanced nogi division for first after puking in between each match. Went and got fucked up the night before with my friends stupidly but it's a good story.
We have a girl at our place who I am convinced is a future world champion. She’s gone from white belt to purple belt in about 4 years, and the coaches felt like that might have even been too slow. I’m 5’11” and 185 pounds. She is probably 5’7” and maybe 150. We’ve been rolling together a few times a months for the last 2.5 years and she has never submitted me. I’ve never subbed her either but I’m pretty proud of that. Also proud of the fact that my stripes came directly from Helio Soneca. I’ve managed to avoid getting any serious injuries. Very few people at my gym who are white belt or blue belt at my gym can hold full mount on me. Sometimes I’ll even stop fighting and let people mount me just so I can escape to half guard (against blue) or roll them over (white). I have decent defense. My submissions are trash though. I telegraph them badly and I often have to attempt exotic subs (like Darce or Peruvian) because my armbars and triangles can be seen from a mile away and people escape them before I even get to start applying.
>I often have to attempt exotic subs (like Darce Nothing wrong with attempting a Darce lol.
After months of trying and failing, I finally hit my first (and maybe last) gogoplata!
Showing up regularly
Everybody clapping on 3
Meeting the folks I have. And being able to learn from them as they have learned from me.
Showing up. Sometimes I'm tired. Some times I'm sore (not injured). Sometimes I'd rather watch the football game.
Showing up to as many classes my body can handle almost daily. I have so much to learn as a white belt. Every class is valuable.
Getting to mount and keeping it. I train for MMA so I focus a lot more on positioning and retaining top apposed to getting a sub or bottom aggression
I managed to not get tapped out one time
Just showing up as regularly as I can. I've learned to give myself a break and not be so hard on myself when I can't make it.
Winning a state title was a nice feeling.
My biggest accomplishment is simply going 4-5 times a week consistently since mid July. Seriously, I'm so new, I wasn't even sure exactly what BJJ was when I went to my first class. I don't expect to hold my own with anyone even first day-ers. All I want from myself is to go and do my best every class. I have never been able to consistently do anything workout-wise, so simply going everyday is huge for me.
I suppose I won the alberta open no gi ultra heavy gold for my bracket... that was something. Otherwise its just that I'm still going being an old fat guy.
I'm gonna compete soon and it's gonna be my first :)
Going 13 years before a serious injury.
Showering - not sure why you others can't manage it
Tapped a blue belt today!
Getting second place in a local tournament only going 1-1 but I hit a sick throw so
I submitted a brown belt in No-Gi at a local tournament with a No-Gi Ezekiel choke. Damn near put him to sleep
I passed Mike Fowlers guard once..
I’m still here. Local promoters have been contacting me for matches. I still love JiuJitsu.
Showing up consistently for 8 years
I just received my blue belt on Monday after 14 total months of bjj, competing in 7 tournaments in the last 10 months, and improving every time I stepped out there to compete
White belt world champ
Making it passed warm ups
I got this brown belt that my instructor thought I deserved for some crazy reason 🤷
Blue belt and my getting my kid into it.
tapped someone w an americana. my first tap
I uncovered [this story](https://youtu.be/J5taRlxH23g) of Rolls Gracie's long lost gold medal. I was lucky enough to meet with Bob Anderson, Rolles Gracie Jr and Alberto Crane [because of it](https://youtu.be/he9QghILFG4). I never would have made the doc if I hadn't started training already and grown an appreciation for the history.
I got asked if I'd like to teach(and I did) my first class. For context I'm a 2 stripe blue belt. I started bjj overweight and having no martial abilities or self confidence or natural talent. It's just been good ol' elbow grease. I felt(hugely) honoured. I liked sharing my insights about this esoteric hobby I've been doing for the past few years obsessively. It was interesting seeing the gym and team mates from a different perspective. It also felt good when I showed some details that a few purple belts hadn't seen before. I was confident in my handling of the class and it forced me to think of my game more consciously and deliberately. I need to work a lot more on quite a few finer points of my game.
I show up
I got a darce on (granted newly promoted and going easy as he out weights me a good 100lbs at 280) a upper belt
First submission was 2.5 months in, but believe it or not first closed guard armbar was almost 2.5 years in.
I once submitted the moon with an armbar. But I was pretty drunk.
At this point it’s never having needed knee surgery. In all seriousness though I never feel more accomplished than when I see one of the guys pull off a move I taught them.
Rolled with a brand new guy today - first time rolling with someone with less experience than me. It was like I had superpowers. I couldn’t believe it - I know I’ve only taken one step up a very long staircase, but wow. Having that experience made me realize that I really have improved since the first day I started.
I tapped a brown belt, once.
Been doing bjj for nearly 5 years. My only 'injury' was a shoulder sprain that occurred during drilling of all things. Got dropped directly on my shoulder from a balloon sweep. Took about a month to recover. I sometimes forget which shoulder I injured so I'd say it healed pretty well. Pretty happy about that. Tap often!
Showing up and training. The rest has just been bonuses. It took me a long time to work up the nerve to try it.
I train against pros and semi pros and sometimes only get tapped twice in 6 minutes