If you are currently training or thinking about training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, be sure of one thing: it will be a very long journey, so try to enjoy it as much you can.

Be patient, the time you will take to get from white to black belt is the same time that a person takes to do two university degrees. Some people will make the journey to becoming a good black belt faster than others.

Here are few tips to make your journey to Black Belt more enjoyable and faster:

Parents know that raising kids is always a challenge and that as our kids grow we try to choose the best for them, the best schools, the best sports.

These days one other thing that goes through parents’ minds is their children’s security. Many of us are finding that it’s getting harder to spend as much time as we’d like to with our kids, and many parents are choosing to put their kids in martial arts in the hope they will gain some key life skills like discipline, focus and co-ordination.

I hear from a lot of people about how frustrated they are with the fact that they didn’t start Brazilian Jiu Jitsu earlier. But we have always got to remember that we can never choose a new beginning, but everyone can choose a new ending. Throughout the years I have been training BJJ, the main thing I have seen stopping people from training is injury.