Hey great message sir. Reminds me a lot about life and about our walk with God. You may or may not be into that but it still applies for like I said life in how 1 John 2:19 essentially says exactly what you're saying. People left the faith because they were never really of it. And that's pretty much what you're saying about people that leave jiu-jitsu. People leave jiu-jitsu who never were TRULY in it. We can fake a lot of things for a while whether it's spirituality, marriage, bjj, whatever. But when you truly get tested and your resolve has to show that's when you find out who and what you are. Which is why as a blue belt, like you I'm a lifer and I'm just in love with the grind more than anything. Played football my whole life and in college and it's the closest I've come to replicating that grind outside of that.
I have been trained in boxing karate and takwondo when I started I went to gang area club's never bothered taking grades only went for the fighing a cloth belt won't help you in a street fight my age 70yr old I still do bare knuckles planks on a wooden floor and punch the heavy bag bare knuckles 5 days a week when sometimes I visited another club some black belts wouldn't spare with me Alec from Scotland
I see people leave all the time some stop at orange never come back some become 1st degree and never come back. What they don't understand is, if you don't train and try to use it in the real world your lights will be cut short.
"The standard"? There's no such thing. As far as the IBJJF, I think they've pushed sport BJJ light years ahead, organizationally, but that's not something I participate in. My students compete in local and regional competitions.
