A couple of the questions someone said what's the best way to start your journey to get a black belt that's an interesting question how do you answer that?

Get your first class right get finding an academy that's got a good reputation and go there every day for seven years and you'll be a black belt.

Good point. How long? Seven years? Took me seven. Seven. That's pretty fast, right?

Yeah, pretty quick.

Photo says Ross, how has BJJ changed in the last 10 years?

It's become far more systematic and chaining techniques and so I guess like the DDS guys out there have been like the last major

the push with the leg locks and how system their systematic approach to

actually competing. Okay all right and last question Joshua says I'm 20 years old, three stripe

well, a white belt in the UK under a Balamer. I know Balamer. What should I do to

prep for blue belt? And by the way, people don't know. You start off as a white belt,

usually so then it goes blue purple brown black again

Ross got is black in seven years some people take ten years a blue belt if you're training

very consistently should take?

uh anywhere between a year two years three years. Okay so what advice do you give to him?

Competing help me you don't have to compete if you don't want to but it did highlight

errors and weaknesses in my game. A lot of instructors will tell you that and just

embrace the grind shut your eyes and

think what how good you'll be in a year if you consistently hit five sessions

five sessions a week that's always what I did. How good will I be in a year if I keep this up?

Now I get there, how good will I be in another year? And then you're 12 years in.

Yeah, you're all right in. You're all right.

And they're inviting you to a horrible division at the ADCC's.

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