Measuring Your Progress Against Teammates

I read an interesting post from Jackjitsu over on Jiu Jitsu Forums..

He explains progress between teammates as two intersecting sinewaves that ramp up together. Both of you plateau at different times, and peak at different times.

You're the green, your teamate is the red 

I love this example/analogue as it sums up those times when I easily tap out my teammate one week, only to be smashed the next week.

I think the moral of what jack was trying to say is that regardless of the short term "ups and downs", when you look at it on a longer timeline it is easy to see the upward trend of both of you.

Jiu Jitsu Changes Lives...

Before I started BJJ, I was on the wrong path. I smoked, I drank heavily, and I was out of shape.

I was recently looking over photo's of a Jean Jacques Machado seminar that Jesslyn and I attended when we were both white belts. I was shocked to see an old photo of me and how soft around the middle I was.

Now fast forward to the Machado Camp last week, and I had the opportunity to take another photo with Professor Jean Jacques Machado.

I think the results of two years of BJJ are undeniable!

(Also, thanks to Jesslyn for teaching me how to smile!).