Emotional Surprise Black Belt Promotion - Maria Varshavskaia 

White belt here. Got me in tears. One day I will achieve this for myself. Beautiful speech, spoken like a true black belt! So inspiring..

Congratulations! To do it in 8 years!? BIG RESPECT!

Nice. I had my 3rd BJJ class today and I'm loving it

Those white belts will remember that for years after they quit.

Non Jiu Jitsu people may never know how much that means.

Congrats... I know that feeling!!! You can't possibly understand until you go through it! OSS

Damn every one of these gets me teary eyed. I guess we all know what goes in to getting one.

White belt here. Just got my second stripe tonight at practice. Congrats to this woman, and I Hope I make it all the way to black one day too 🙏🏽

“I need to do more, learn more. More jiu jitsu!”

The world will be a better place when everybody will start train jiujitsu oss 💪👌

Not into martial arts but I'm into hard work and dedication to a craft. Well done.

I don't practice jiujitsu (one day hopefully), I do a completely different style of martial arts, but I have so much respect for jiu jitsu practitioners. It is so much harder to obtain any rank, especially a black belt, and takes so many more years of practice, dedication, hard work, etc. Congrats to her. Amazing.

Felicitaciones 👏👏👏👏👏 voy a llorar yo también 😭😭😭😭😭 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷.

BJJ is one of the few or may be the only martial art where someone truly takes the time and effort that should take to become a Black Belt

Congratulations ma’am 💯👊🏽....yes this man is crying , so happy for you on your black Black Belt also other classmate on promotion 💯🙌🏽👏🏽💐🔥❣️

My favourite part was the speech at the end.

True Martial Artists...showing respect towards another. Awesome !!!

never get tired of these ...the humblness

Felisitaciones desde Argentina 👍👍

Congratulations!

I can only imagine. Getting your brown and you know the next one is black. But it will only come in time. Don’t focus on that or rush it. And you get a stripe. And another. And another. Each time knowing you’re getting closer but obviously there is no x number of stripes to get black. It happens when it happens. So with each stripe you think to yourself if the next time is the belt. But remind yourself not to focus on that. And then it happens. You go up. You get your stripe. Only as a distraction so you can receive your black. And all that anticipation that’s been building but you’ve been pushing aside surfaces all at once. You’ve done it. But it’s not over. Not only is it a new chapter but a new installment of the novel if that makes sense. Good job. I’ll be starting the journey myself soon.

Congratulations. I know how you feel. I just got mine brown. Proud of you

Congratulations

Very, very cool. Congratulations 👏💐

Seen it 100 times. Still makes me tear up

that actually make me cry! congratulationnnnnnn

Congrats! Strong work!

Massive congrats!

Congrats my sister oss. May u be bless Alhamdulillah. And enjoy your new exciting journey.

Very awesome congratulations!!

I just got my first belt today and got a gray-white after nine months

I’m only a purple belt and I can only imagine what this moment will/would mean to me

I’ve been jitsu’n for a month and I still don’t know how to tie my belt.

Never stop reaching for what might look unreachable. One day you will surpass it and realize that with hard work and dedication you're capable of anything.

Big congrats!

Amazing.

Congrats my sister getting that black belt ossssss:) lowkey I am crying 😭

Congratulations Maria!!!

Congratulations from one black belt to another

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Huge respect 💪

That’s awesome! She looks relatively young too! 8 years???? What !!?

Earned not given

Beautiful woman

So awesome.

I know how to make BJJ practitioners cry... give them a black belt 😁.

Tape man be like "hold on hold on lemme finish my job here"

Congratulations well done

...respect!!!

8 year black belt. She must be really good

🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭🥰I am sobbing

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Congrats

Wow respect 💯

BURAK DEĞER BİÇER BJJ KİNG 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

Spoken like a true black belt

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I absolutely hate this culture of the “surprise” promotion. It is 100% subjective, It creates a feeling of uncertainty that there is a cohesive format to BJJ. It is also exclusive and very unprofessional. The unprofessional nature of this is magnified when there is the podium promotion. Think about training, going to a competition, and then finding that the person you lost to was really a belt higher than you to begin with. I am a physician. There is a process, and a distinct pathway to becoming so. Same with engineers. Same with pretty much everything in a society. MAYBE, if this crap didn’t exist, there would be more people interested in the sport. Maybe, your gyms would do better.

🖤

I'm not crying, you're crying...

Notice How emotional getting a Bjj black Belt is because you literally spend a decade getting smashed to earn it💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

I thought that the previous belt was the black belt bit it turned out to be blacker belt

4 stripes. ya such a surprise

Viva anthenaaaaaaaaa

Can't wait to get mine

Oss 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏⚘🌷🌼🌻

She deserves it 😢

everybody cry

crying for taking a belt? I dont understand why people cry for taking a piece of cloth fabric

Dont worry im on the case sike

🙏💪 respect

Congratulations

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