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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On this episode, Chewy answers a question from Rolo, who says that he is an out of shape 50 year old BJJ hobbyist that doesn’t feel deserving of his belt promotion.
Chewy provides some advice and perspective on how to deal with not feeling worthy of the belt promotion and some ideas to work on.
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0:00.0 | What up, guys? Welcome to another edition of this solo jujitsu podcast episode where we're doing some Q&As with you. |
0:07.5 | Today's Q&A comes from a guy named Rollo, and we'll get into that in a second. |
0:11.5 | So again, thank you guys for joining us. |
0:13.3 | If you want to support the podcast, you can do so at our Patreon, patreon.com slash the Jitzu podcast. If you want to get my daily email that I send out, you can join the Chu |
0:21.3 | crew by going to my website at chiujitsu.net slash join. When you join, you'll get access to some |
0:27.2 | ebooks and you'll receive my daily email that goes into everything from this philosophical stuff |
0:31.6 | that I'm reading to ideas I'm working into my jihitsu and training ideas. I'm working into my |
0:36.1 | jih Tjitsu, the books I'm reading and everything in between. With that said, let's get into this question from Rolo. So |
0:41.2 | basically he's having a bit of imposter syndrome was recently promoted to Purple Belt. Now he says he's |
0:47.5 | I'm going to read all this stuff pretty much verbatim. He's 50 years old, fat, old, slow. Can't do a lot of things. |
0:55.3 | Can't touch his toes. |
0:56.9 | He gases out. |
0:57.8 | He's unathletic. |
1:01.0 | I have very little from north-south, top or bottom. |
1:03.8 | I call front headlock, the position I'm in before the other guy makes a single out of it. |
1:10.7 | And I end up on the |
1:11.6 | bottom. I know nothing about leg locks or entanglements from the bottom or any position. |
1:17.0 | And, you know, I show up for three days a week. I don't compete. I don't plan on it. I'm a hobbyist |
1:21.1 | at best. Despite all this, my coach promoted to me for Purple Belt. I'm actually embarrassed |
1:25.8 | by it. And I just want to go to class and |
1:27.7 | hang out and be in the back and fight off obesity and depression and not worry about anything else in my |
1:32.8 | life but getting choked and choked out for an hour. I would wear a white belt again forever if it |
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