I started Jiu-Jitsu at the
ripe old age of 55, earned my Blue Belt at 56, and am currently 58.
Our school was the only
Certified Training Centre in Canada, so I was the oldest Gracie
student to start training in our country. I was also the oldest to
ever get a Blue Belt. Up until this week, although there are now more
Certified schools, I was probably the oldest person training at all.
That has all changed. Two
of our new beginners are stealing my thunder. One is 59, and the
other is 62. I am no longer the oldest person in Canada to have ever started training. They have also knocked me cleanly out of being the
oldest person of any rank currently on the mat.
Assuming they both stick
around, and that it takes them about a year to get to Blue Belt, my
oldest-person-in-Canada-to-get-a-Blue Belt record will also fall.
All of my firsts will have
fallen.
I don't mind.
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