Okay. My turn, although there are some serious stories being thrown around on here already. ^_^
Got a kid at the academy who's been training for a year and a half in October. I say 'kid', but he's 21. Anyway, he fought his first competition after about five month's training, winning that, and then his second after six month's training, which was probably the biggest domestic competition of the year, and won his white belt division in four fights, including a final against a two year white belt who is nicknamed 'Rolls' in his academy because of his extreme talent.
He then went to the Europeans at white belt, and won that (after nine month's training), before getting his blue belt.
He went to the World's this year at a year and a couple of month's training, and won three fights, losing in the quarter-final by one advantage to the guy who went on to win the whole thing.
He's now a three-stripe blue belt, training in the advanced class at the academy and tapping purples almost at will, and has tapped browns and even blacks in training. And all of this at a weight of 61kg, with most of his training partners 10 or 15kg heavier than him at least.
I can't really do much with him anymore at all, and I outweigh him by over 10kg, and have been training more than three times as long as him. He hasn't caught me yet, but I'm sure he will at some point, and he's already gotten close too many times.
Keep an eye on him, guys. ^_^
Joe/Joseph Lennon, Roger Gracie Academy.
Take care,
Oli
[Edit: Oh yeah, forgot the rules. He's that good because he trains two or three times a day every day, is surprisingly strong for his size, and is new enough in jiujitsu that he can continue to evolve and be creative. He hasn't settled into familiar habits and patterns yet, simply because he hasn't been training long enough. Or at least, that's how I see it.]
