What up, guys? Welcome to the Jiu-Jitsu podcast episode. I don't know. It's his number in 372.

There it is. And today we're going to talk about what it means to be a legitimate black belt.

It's going to be a little bit open-ended because I think it's in a lot of cases it's there's a bit of subjectivity to it. I think we would agree, right?

There's some things that we kind of kind of agree on, but there's still a lot of subjectivity to it. I think we would agree, right? There's some things that we kind of agree about on, but there's still a lot of subjectivity to it, I think, which is pretty common in an art form.

But the reason why we're going to bring it up is because recently there was an internet guru guy name, like he goes by the name Derek Moneyberg.

I looked him up a little bit i did a little bit

of research because i was curious his real name's dale something you know but who am i to

make a thing about that because i mean my name's chewy but my real name's snick so you know um but

you know nonetheless this guy got his black belt in three and a half years in

jiu jih Tjitsu world was a buzz very like interesting what's going on now i will tell you for

the most part i do not care doesn't really doesn't bother me i well it i would say it doesn't

it doesn't bother me in the sense that it doesn't affect me.

I think it's silly.

We'll talk about why in a bit.

But I did get questions from several people, including one of my students, Victor,

sent me a message and was like, you know, Chewy, I saw this.

You know, what do you think about people that are only doing private lessons to get black belts,

you know, and wanted to know my opinion. Maybe Victor's thinking about trying to

speed up his progress to black belt. I'm just kidding, Victor. So, you know, I got questions about

it and I figured we would talk about that story, but we would also talk about just the idea of black belt. What is a black belt?

I'll talk about some different ideas and things to chew on. It'll be open-ended. So I'm not going to

give you the definitive thing, but I'm going to give you some ideas to think about. And for some of

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