17/02/2026
When I first walked into jiu-jitsu in 2023 at , I started training with my brothers, Aidan, Yong, Ho. We where then the Four clueless white belts wrapped up in gi.
Then 2024 happened. I got kicked out of the current Daisho ( for skipping warmups )& The white belts who stayed got their blue belts. The guys who left with me? We had to hit reset.
Under Prof stringent grading, “almost there” means “wait next year.”
I joke about buying belts. Truth is, these guys paid more than anyone. Not with money. With time. With resilience . With starting over when it would have been easier to stay. The exodus cost us a year. Not just in rank, but in being split from people we trained & came up with.
So today, watching the crew finally get recognised for the hours, the rounds, the countless hours of pirated bjj fanatics studying… it hits different. This wasn’t a fast track. It wasn’t convenient. It wasn’t political.
It was earned. Congrats brothers , time to put "BJJ" in your IG username .