In reply to O.G.
I had a similar experience, but on the opposite end of the age/size scale. I was visiting a different school's belt ceremony and one of the newly promoted blue belts asks me to roll after class. He had just turned 16, was a brand new blue, and really light weight.
What I thought would be an easy roll turned out rough. The kid had been training/competing for 8 years at that school already so his blue belt at 16 felt far more like a brown belt while rolling.
This was a few years ago....if I went back to that school today, that kid would smoke me now.
What I thought would be an easy roll turned out rough. The kid had been training/competing for 8 years at that school already so his blue belt at 16 felt far more like a brown belt while rolling.
This was a few years ago....if I went back to that school today, that kid would smoke me now.
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