Dont base your choice on belt-level, just ask yourself if jits is a, permanent, part of your life or not?
It would, however, be kinda lame to end up getting a permanent "fighting" marker and then quit after 18 months of training.
Seems to be alot of threads on this from time to time, treat it like any other tattoo, if you can stand for it, get it!
I have trained for 8 years now, first 4 years very hard then 12-18 months no training b/c acl-surgery etc. then 3 years averaging once or twice per week because of law-school and full time work. All being said, im still a blue belt. Lack of local blackbelts, bad knees and just life overall has kept me from being promoted (some people i started traing with are at black belt now
). Despite being a blue belt, I would say that jits is a permanent part of my life.In fact, friends, family, girls, pets and porn has all changed in 8 years, jits is still there.