Monday, January 24, 2011  "Omg! Haven't seen you in forever!
What are you, a purple/brown belt now???" Ummm... well...
errr... you see...  I got my blue belt in November 2003. I am a
blue belt today. Yep. But hey, I'm at a different academy now so
something changed! So... what happened?   But anyways.  Why go
back to jiu-jitsu? Who knows. I don't know if I really enjoyed
it the first time around *gasp*! But one of my closest friends,
Crystina Coats, is and always will be a jiu-jitsu chick and I
guess that's what kept me thinking about it...... every now and
then I'd go and take a class, get smashed, run back to muay
thai.  It's definitely intimidating to think about going back
when all the people you started with or even started AFTER you
are now purple/brown/black belts. Crystina, Giselle, JOEL
(wtf!).  I'm 33 whereas many of the top female competitors today
are lethal enough to whoop my a$$ with their eyes closed but not
old enough to get into a club (legally). Again, wtf???  But
whatever. In the end, who a