How important are stripes to you?

[crackjack49]

they are worthless

[cloudpump]

Stripes are important to the person that needs the motivation to improve or needs help to focus. To the person that can't stop thinking about the next time they can roll, sweat, be sweated on, have their appendages strained, and dream of doing it again and again, stripes look nice, but they would practice in a tutu if that was the uniform. Not to offend anyone, but I roll to roll. Tell me good job. Call it a day, let me roll, let me work on my judo, let me chop my sparring partner down.

[WhiteBeltAcademy]

Stripes are important to the person that needs the motivation to improve or needs help to focus. To the person that can't stop thinking about the next time they can roll, sweat, be sweated on, have their appendages strained, and dream of doing it again and again, stripes look nice, but they would practice in a tutu if that was the uniform. Not to offend anyone, but I roll to roll. Tell me good job. Call it a day, let me roll, let me work on my judo, let me chop my sparring partner down.

I think that is a bit of a blanket statement. Stripes can mean a lot of things to different people.