1- Like Jiu-Jitsu.
2- Love Jiu-Jitsu.
3- Respect Jiu-Jitsu.
4- Learn to balance force and technique so as to fight as long as you can without tiring.
5- Understand that the belt is not the only objective, but the result of effort and learning. One whose only objective is to get a new belt limits his own potential, which is always enormous and unknown. Rather than focus on that, concern yourself with developing technical aspects of the fight.
6- Know the entire program of basic classes inside out and back to front.
7- Study self-defense techniques in depth. Or do you plan to be the kind of black belt that despairs at just having to get out of a basic choke?
8- Have a grueling training session with your own master.
9- Make a lot of close friends at the gym.
10- Enter a tournament – and return home with a gold medal.
11- Dispute the absolute division.
12- Realize that deep, deep down points and the clock do not exist, while nothing is more real than those three little taps.
13- Participate in a seminar conducted by your greatest idol