Hard work pays off - Martial Arts Rank Promotion

🎉🥋I earned a promotion to blue belt!🔵🎉 I am still riding high and feeling thrilled from this! It would not be possible without all the instructors, role models, accountability partners, teammates, and even cheering audiences at tournaments.

I hope you’ve experienced similar hard-earned success. There’s a great power in finding your momentum in one area, and carrying that over to another part of your life.

A coach can be so powerful — helping, guiding, motivating you to achievements you might never even considered for yourself. I feel that when I hear from my coach, and I provide that for all my online health & fitness coaching clients.

Check out the video for some footage from my instructor during the ceremony in class, recorded after a brutal ‘shark tank’ testing period where fresh opponents constantly attack you one after another! SOOOOOOO exhausting!!

Oh and then you can watch ‘the gauntlet’ — a BJJ tradition of whipping the newly promoted with our belts!

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art based on ground fighting and submission holds. BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, controlling one's opponent, gaining a dominant position, and using a number of techniques to force them into submission via joint locks or chokeholds.

BJJ revolves around the concept that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend him/herself against a bigger, stronger, heavier opponent by using leverage and weight distribution, taking the fight to the ground and using a number of holds and submissions to defeat them.

BJJ training can be used for sport grappling and self-defense situations. Sparring, commonly referred to as "rolling" within the BJJ community, plays a major role in training and the practitioner's development.

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu ranking system awards a practitioner different colored belts to signify increasing levels of technical knowledge and practical skill. There are five colors; white, blue, purple, brown, and black (the highest).

Unlike in some martial arts such as taekwondo and karate, a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu commonly takes more than 10 years to earn, and the rank is generally considered expert level.

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