Blue Belt Reset Planner

Mat Manual companion guide to "The Blue Belt Blues: Promoted, Exposed, and Thinking of Quitting." Print it. The article explains why promotion feels like decline. This planner rebuilds your first year at blue on paper: three goal cards, a round-selection tracker that balances your week, progress measures that are not tap counts, and a twelve-week project plan you can watch working.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Coach: ______________________________ Promotion date: ______________ Reset start date: ______________

READ THIS FIRST: WHAT THIS PLANNER IS FOR ☐ The blues are a status problem, not a skill problem. This planner does not fix them with more technique. It fixes your scoreboard, your rounds, and your goals, in that order. ☐ Twelve weeks is the unit. Do not judge the reset at week three. The dip is deepest exactly where it is most temporary. ☐ Nothing in this book grades you against another student. Every measure here compares you to your own earlier numbers. ☐ If the urge to quit is really an injury, a schedule problem, or a money problem wearing a belt's face, write that in Part 1 and solve the actual problem first.

Part 1: The Reset Contract

Write it before you train another round as a blue belt. One page, honest answers, no audience.

The signature line. I will run this planner for twelve weeks before I make any decision about quitting. Signature: ______________________________ Date: ____________