The owner of our Jiu Jitsu Training center earned his brown belt this weekend in a pretty intensive test. They don't just hand those out, you have to earn it.
Today was the first Master Cycle Class (combative belts and up) since his promotion.
After the lesson part of the class there's open rolling.
He then took each and every one of us in the class for a roll in turn. He essentially set it up that we could, and did, tap him out in each roll so long as we did good technique appropriate for our own levels. He wasn't just letting you tap him out, you had to work for it, but he kept his responses to your moves matched right at your ability level so you could do it.
Yep, instead of him showing that he could tap out pretty much everyone in the room after earning that promotion -- which he can -- (except for the head instructor - and they might at times get to a draw), he instead decided to celebrate by getting tapped out by the entire class.
That was an impressive demonstration of someone being humble and putting their ego completely aside.
It really demonstrates the spirit at our training center that it's not just how good at jitsu you can be that matters, but how good at jitsu you can become while helping others become good at jitsu too that matters.
It's a really great place to learn.
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