{"id":5,"date":"2023-10-01T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2024-04-06T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:06:10","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/2023\/10\/01\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"I Won a Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the first time in my life I truly feel like a winner. I’ve been learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) on and off since 2006. I started my BJJ journey at Indianapolis BJJ and trained for a few months before headed to university at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, IN. The cool thing about IU is they have a ton of martial arts classes and clubs. I was lucky enough to be able to train somewhat frequently but not nearly enough to really learn Jiu-Jitsu. After many years of not training I again for a few months trained at an MMA gym called Vortex MMA. I ended up getting injured from weightlifting and again quit training BJJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2022, I’ve been training 3-4 times a week at Fargo BJJ. In September, there was a submission completion where I placed first in the Gi and second in No-Gi for my weight and belt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On September 30th I received my blue belt from George Andersch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The crazy thing about BJJ is that about 90% of all people who start training never receive their blue belt. I’ve always found that to be such a crazy statistic. My current goal is to keep training and work towards my purple belt when I move to Chicago. I expect it will be a few more years for that to happen, but I’m extremely determined to continue pushing towards my black belt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the first time in my life I truly feel like a winner. I’ve been learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) on and off since 2006. I started my BJJ journey at Indianapolis BJJ and trained for a few months before headed to university at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, IN. The cool thing about IU is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bjj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetempleton.space\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}