Its All About Desire

Sorry for no post yesterday, work was busy and I was gaming in the evening.

On Wednesday night I went to Jiu Jitsu class and attended for the first time the Orange to Purple belt class. Like the first day of school I did not know hardly anyone and ended up working with the teenager named Jeff who was an orange belt with two stripes. But in my opinion, he should have been in the white belt class.

Doing the co-operative warmups, he didn't try and I felt like a fool. His techniques were sloppy and only tried half-heartedly. He lacked confidence in what he was trying to do and seemed fine with just moaning about not being able to do it and whining about it. I was embarrassed for him. I wanted to ask him what he was doing here if he really didn't want to be here but I didn't want to be rude. Perhaps his parents force him to come, or maybe he was having a bad night (although I doubt that).

This is my one complaint with this dojo: they will promote people who simply say they want to climb the ranks instead of just the people who are able to climb the ranks. Being able to survive a belt test is not the same thing as passing one in my humble opinion. I know why they do it; if they didn't a number of people would become frustrated and just give up and martial arts strives to be inclusive of all, not just the phsyically fit and the dedicated. But there was nothing physically wrong with this kid, he just seemed to lack any desire to try.

And excellence is all about desire.