super high level trickery!

[Cookie Monster]

mr Jason Eisner
showed me this video and he also showed me a few awesome entrances!

(you better keep teaching me ...or i'll kick you ass!)

[Clinton lawrence]

if some one can explain to me how the hell bj got his black belt in 3 years i will eat a lock of your hair cookie

[Justin W.]

if some one can explain to me how the hell bj got his black belt in 3 years i will eat a lock of your hair cookie

clearly it was his dedication to hard work because anyone that knows BJ, knows that he's all about working really really hard. now where's my cookie?

[Nick Powers]

if some one can explain to me how the hell bj got his black belt in 3 years i will eat a lock of your hair cookie

I've read his book, and in it he explains that when he was 17, he moved to California to train with Ralph Gracie and basically that's all he did while he was there: train BJJ all day, and think about it all day. Ralph eventually promoted him to Purple Belt before he ended up transferring over to Nova Uniao, which he thought was not going to be a big deal that he was training with them but apparently Ralph took offense that BJ trained with them while he was in Vegas.

BJ got promoted to brown and black belt while with Nova Uniao, due to his outstanding knowledge and utilization against high level guys who he beat pretty often. He got promoted to black belt, if memory serves me correctly, right before he was slated to compete at the Mundials; I believe when he competed and WON the Mundials as a black belt at age 20, that was the first (and only) time he ever competed in BJJ competition as a black belt.

[John Hickman]

BJ is the man. Period.

[AndyK5]

Maybe it was easier to get a black belt in the past. What I mean is that there was less variations and less practitioners with less competition. For example Einstein got his phd in physics in about 3 years. Today even a genius is stuck in grad school for at least 6-7 years before they get their phd in Physics. I am not taking anything away from BJ and I believe he is phenomenally gifted, but this may have also played a role.

[Nick Powers]

He dedicated his entire life for three years just to jiu jitsu, and was promoted to black belt in three years by Ralph Gracie and André Pederneiras. I'm pretty sure he deserved it.

[derrick ikwueme]

ah, the beauty of passing, hip swiveling, angle changing 101, weak & sloppy guards are futile