I go to work. I spend time with my kiddos and my wife. And I have one little hobby that I do.

And that is jiu-jitsu. I've been doing it for a few years now. And it has been great. It's made me

healthier. It's made me stronger. It's given my mind clarity. And it's just become a really fun

thing to do. And so that is my one little hobby. And I want to share about it with you today because I finally

went up a rung in the progression in this martial art by getting a blue belt. So I'm going to talk

about what that means, what the martial art generally is, and just kind of my journey in this.

And to encourage you, maybe you're doing something similar. You're doing martial arts. You'd be

doing anything else. The journey of a thousand miles begins the single step, the old Eastern proverb.

That's what I want to talk about today because it's free for all Friday.

Welcome, Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology.

But on Friday, you know, we finally had a belt promotion ceremony and I got my blue belt in

jiu-git-soo, going from white to blue. How do I feel? I still feel like a white belt. There's just more

expectations and the higher belts beat up on me even harder now and do things to me they didn't do

before like wrist locks and heel hooks and

all sorts of fun things just to make you feel beat up and learning more and more but that's

part of the process so all right if you're not familiar with the arts so in martial arts there's

three different there's three basic styles of martial arts you got to throw a guy you can

throwing grappling and striking. Okay. So,

uh, the only one I haven't done very much is throwing. And judo is the big one for throwing.

I asked my coach, hey, should I take a judo class? And he said at your age, only if you want to get

injured a bunch. Like, yeah, you're probably right. I did have a coach who was a black, once he was a black belt in judo and jujitsu,

and he was just a total monster to try to fight, even more so than people who are just black

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