I'm 38. Black belt, 15 years on the mats, two wrecked MCLs — and at the end of August I'm competing again. This is the working system for refusing to age out, documented in public.
15 years of jiu-jitsu
Black belt · coach & student
Aug — back on the competition mat
0 plans to slow down
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Your birth year is not your age. The Longevity Score measures where your capability actually is — recovery, movement, consistency, life load — and what's quietly slipping.
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The Longevity Roll — a 3-minute Sunday letter on training smarter, recovering harder, and the road back to competition at 38. No fluff, no bro-science.
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The Morning Crew — a private accountability community with one standard: two sessions a week, logged, witnessed. The streak is the product.
The Morning Crew
Two sessions a week. Logged. Witnessed. Not five — two. You can defend a floor; you can't defend a peak. The Crew exists to make sure your floor never breaks.
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Who's asking you to do this
I'm 38. First-degree black belt, about 15 years in — trained in more rooms than I can count, coach on the mats, and I run companies the rest of the day. Both my MCLs are wrecked, my bloodwork is perfect, and that gap is what this whole thing is about.
I used to train three, four times a day. Now I get one, and I've had to learn what optimal actually means when you have a business, a family, and mileage. That recalibration — training smarter instead of just harder — is the system I document here.
At the end of August I step back onto a competition mat. Everything I do to get there — the rehab, the training, the honest failures — goes in the Sunday letter. I'm not here for everybody. I'm here to help whoever wants to be helped.
Sixty seconds. See where you actually stand — and what's quietly slipping.
Two guys, both 45. One grunts getting off the floor. One rolled six rounds this morning. Same year on the license — completely different age in the body.
12 questions. 60 seconds. Find out where your capability actually stands — and what's quietly slipping.
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Your Longevity Score
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Every Sunday I send The Longevity Roll — 3 minutes on exactly this: training, recovery, and staying dangerous as the years stack. Written by a 38-year-old black belt rebuilding for competition, not a 25-year-old with a ring light.
Get the Sunday letter — free Your lowest category above? That's what we work on first.A self-assessment of habits and capability, not a medical evaluation. I'm not a doctor — this is what I track; talk to yours.