Glad to know I'm far above average at something. I'm probably closing in on 2000 sessions and still a Purple belt.

Neat! It would also be interesting to see total hours per belt.

It tooks me 8 years of work at 500h of training per year to get my black belt.

Thank you for sharing this, Christian.

Interesting Funfact

I've heard the numbers thrown around that about 3 days a week, 2 years per belt is about average. 1000 seems remarkably short.

But the math does generally agree: 3 days per week, 52 weeks in a year, 8 years total is 1248. Assuming no holidays or life events, of course.

By beltchecker stats... Average time to black belt: 12 year(s), 1 month(s), 20 day(s) - I suppose burnout/time off, injuries, relationships, holidays, travel all contribute to that 4 years difference.

I'm curious to see if we can get stats on how many days per week people tend to train on average.

I do 3 or 4 days a week, typically, but double classes each day. So anywhere from 6 to 8 classes per week.

I started keeping a spreadsheet of all of my classes with notes after my first gym, which had timecards for students. When I get that plateau-y feeling again, i find it helps to review the spreadsheet and think about how much I actually have learned and done.

1154 total classes. (To keep it simple: Anything over 2 hours is two classes, 90 minutes is one typical class, each open mat treated like one class regardless of length.)

691 days on the mat. Average of 1.67 classes per day on the mat. With a yearly average of 130 training days.

Still blue. With some extrapolation based on the next promotion date, It'll be close to day 750 and 1250 classes when I get my purple.

Stats are fun.

There was a lengthy thread on here back in the beginning about how often people trained, so the information is out there.