Lex Fridman, host of the popular Lex Fridman podcast, has been promoted to the rank of 1st degree BJJ black belt!
He shared the awesome news on social media:
I got a stripe on my Jiu-Jitsu black belt today from Phil and Rick Migliarese who guided me from white belt to black belt, as mentors and friends.
I owe a lot of who I am to the thousands of hours I spent training hard on these mats.
Thank you for the pain and the love.
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Lex has been training Jiu-Jitsu for a long time. And no, the black belt wasn’t the most difficult belt for him to earn.
Rather, it was the brown belt!
To earn the purple belt was extremely difficult. Extremely difficult. And then, during the brown belt, that meant I had to compete non-stop against other purple belts – which are young.
Like, the people that usually compete are like 23, 24, 25 year olds… That are, like, shredded, [that have] incredible cardio.
They’re in [the period of their life when they have] no kids, no nothing – they can dedicate everything to this pursuit of their training.
Two, three, times per day, their diet is on point…And for me, because they’re usually bigger and taller than me, usually more aggressive… Usually just good athletes.
Yeah, I had to go through a lot of wars to earn that brown belt.
