Hi there! This is the kind of posts that I would like to see more of in the Steemit BJJ tag. I like how you summarized your breakthroughs and your projections of how the next belts would be like (if I understood correctly, you are at purple right now, right?).

I only have been practicing for about one and a half years, but the difference between me from one year and me from now is huge. Not that I am a super killer or anything, but the improvement is evident.

I am still a white belt and I reckon I will probably be one of those "late bloomers" that take a couple of years to get their blue. I am always puzzled at how some people are winning competitions and just becoming super good after just 6-9 months of training, since at that point I was still pretty clueless and often would find myself out of ideas regarding what to do when rolling. Funnily enough, it was during a three-month long time off due to a knee injury that things started to click for me: since I couldn't train, I watched tons of instructionals, interviews, videos from matches, etc. and that really helped me understand the basic principles behind the moves. Once I went back to training, I was able to consistently get better, also competed twice which definitely helped boost my progress.

I'll stop here since I already wrote a novel, haha... Cheers to a new year full of BJJ accomplishments and successful, injury-free trainings!