How Did You Eventually Get Affiliated With a Black Belt?

When you hit purple belt, the journey really becomes kind of just you. And your instructor holds your hand a lot less once you get to that advanced level. So when I got my black belt, I got in seven years, which is like pretty fast, but it's the same thing. People criticized me. They're like, oh, you can't get a black belt on seven years. You got to be 10 years or whatever. But it's like, yeah, it's like me. I put above average above average effort into getting good as you do. So obviously, I'm going to have above average results. Sometimes people only expect an above average result because they only put