just wondering how long it took most people to get their bjj blue belts. Also what do you think is the shortest time possible to get it?
i got mine in about 2 years, but i changed club after 1 year. so 1year at my current club u could say,
Probably longer than it would take to actually think "Hmmm. I wonder if this subject has been covered before?" Then make the next jump in logic, "I'll look back a few pages and see if anyone has ever asked this question before. Chances are someone has!"
that is seriously mcdojo varning, sure some people are talented but under a year is seriously not average,
Based on what I see in my gym and on the boards something like 9-18 months is normal for somebody that attends class regularly. If somebody got theirs in 6 months that would tell me that they either train 5 days a week, they are a natural, or they have a background in a similar sport. We have one guy in my gym that had three of those. After a year or so Royce jumped him from white straight to 4 stripe blue. He's might be ready to be purple now but I'm not really qualified to tell. At 7 months in I'm a 2 stripe white belt. That seems to be a normal amount of progress. Not too good, not too bad.
I don't know, that is why I clicked on this thread to see what you guys thought. I never trained at an acredited school, just in a college club working under a groups of blue belts and judo green belts and D1 wrestlers. I did that for three years until this year when I ahve been doing judo 3 to 4 times per week. I will look for a bjj or sub grappling school when I get back to the US and if it is bjj, I think I ahve a good chance at getting to blue faster than average because of my experience.
I got my blue after 8-9 months. Then competed in GQ won 4th no-gi, followed by a local comp where I took 1st for gi and 1st for no-gi. I have never played any other sport in my life or wrestled in HS or college. I sucked at baseball, basketball, football, and probabaly hockey too. And any other sport that required hand eye coordination. I didn't join wrestling in HS because I thought it was just a bunch of homos looking for an excuse to touch each other's asses. I guess I was wrong.
All these mentioning of time period-wise is meaningless without any mention of times per wk and duration each time
I got my blue belt in 10 months, training twice a week. I was 16 years old too, so I was the youngest blue belt ever that my coach gave.