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Lol looking for a way out by competing up a belt...that's a good one.
One of the guys who comes in and rolls around with my HS wrestling team was a D1 wrestler and a purple belt for 4 months. Just a guy looking to continue to compete. He invited me to a local tournament and to get beers after. He enters in, has an 8 man bracket and rapes everyone. It was a waste of his time competing against purple belts. He's not going to spend $1000 for a trip nationally so he can roll against purple belts his skill level. His teammate, a brown belt, got 2nd in his division and they go 50/50.
He needs to compete in brown belt but because of local rules, they won't let him. His instructor says he's not ready for a brown belt.
It's a pussy mentality to be scared of a lower belt beating you. I'd take a 28 yo athletic former D1 wrestler purple belt over a lot of brown belts who compete. Let them get their money's worth and more often than not, so will you. If they get hurt against, oh well. If your ego gets hurt because they beat your ass, get better.
That's awesome and a very valid point. There are many reasons for wanting to compete a belt color up. Unfortunately, more often than not, they are not always for the best reasons.
And yes, there are people who prefer to always compete up a belt color so they can have bragging rights if they win but if they've lose, they lost to a higher belt anyways. That is looking for a way out. I'm. It saying everyone is doing that but I've seen this more than a few times