After Blue Belt Funk/Plateau/Burnout

[Tyler Larsen]

It's impossible to hit plateaus if you are rolling and drilling consistently.

It may only seem that way because most everyone else in class is also progressing along with you.

Just keep training and don't trip. If Jitz is truly your passion quitting would never be considered. Always remind yourself how awesome it is having the ability to kill people in self defense with your bare hands :-)

Always taking it back to murder lol

[Tori Applegate]

Drillers make killers!

Love this...stealing it!!

[Chris "Beowulf" Burchell]

It has been almost a year since i got my blue, before i got it i was pushing hard to get it, i work alot of hours as an auto technician and three days a week is pushing my limits physically but i was doing four or five days a week and i would wake up barely able to walk some days. After i got my belt i fell off to about one day a week for a month or so, and i felt like a quitter. I took a week off and got my head right and came back ready to work. Since then i have done that same thing again about two months ago. I dont fear quitting because i never will, but sometimes i just need to hit the reset button

[Justin W.]

I feel like the blue belts that quit after they get their blues are the guys that trained so hard to get their blue and can't imagine what it'll take to get to purple. Or the guys who treat jiu jitsu as just a hobby. The lifestyle jiu jitsu guys never quit.

I really don't understand how people plateau. There's way too much to learn and jiu jitsu is always evolving. I never once felt like I didn't progress after training. There's a bunch of ways to get better like drilling, rolling, stretching, cardio, strength and conditioning, dieting, watching instructionals ect... There's no reason to be plateauing unless you choose to like those guys that only bother learning what their instructors teach them, rather than constantly searching the web for answers to their own problems.

As for burning out, this isn't too much of an issue as long as you have a goal. If you have a goal, you can be burnt out and push through. I get burnt out every 3-4 months and I just keep training, business as usual and eventually that fire will spark again.

[Tori Applegate]

I feel like the blue belts that quit after they get their blues are the guys that trained so hard to get their blue and can't imagine what it'll take to get to purple. Or the guys who treat jiu jitsu as just a hobby. The lifestyle jiu jitsu guys never quit.

I really don't understand how people plateau. There's way too much to learn and jiu jitsu is always evolving. I never once felt like I didn't progress after training. There's a bunch of ways to get better like drilling, rolling, stretching, cardio, strength and conditioning, dieting, watching instructionals ect... There's no reason to be plateauing unless you choose to like those guys that only bother learning what their instructors teach them, rather than constantly searching the web for answers to their own problems.

As for burning out, this isn't too much of an issue as long as you have a goal. If you have a goal, you can be burnt out and push through. I get burnt out every 3-4 months and I just keep training, business as usual and eventually that fire will spark again.

I really like your viewpoint. I'm gonna keep all this in mind. :-)