Orange belt in judo

[benplante]

In my dojo after the yellow belt, the coach want you to set your own objectives. I'm yellow belt for 5 months, i feel confident that i know must of the throws for the next belt ? Do you feel 6 months is enough between yellow and orange, i'm training 2-3 times a weeks.

 

[Uchi Mata]

I think a better objective would be to win the novice division of a local competition (assuming you have those). I truly believe you can't know Judo until you've competed (I am an experienced Judo instructor and BB).

Don't worry about rank...rank comes from getting better, and the way to push and test yourself is to fight. Go to as many tournaments as you can and you'll get better much faster (and rank up faster as well).

 

[zegrapplez]

finding 1-2 solid techniques to build around/set up your tokui waza would be a good start.

 

[BCNASH]

Dont mean to hijack your thread TS but do most instructors count BJJ competition as competing if you use your Judo to get the fight to the ground?

 

[Thrawn33]

In my dojo after the yellow belt, the coach want you to set your own objectives. I'm yellow belt for 5 months, i feel confident that i know must of the throws for the next belt ? Do you feel 6 months is enough between yellow and orange, i'm training 2-3 times a weeks.

I usually got promoted in the junior kyu grades after competing. The guys who didn't compete as often as I did took a while to advance.

That being said, in the grand scheme of things there's really little difference between yellow and orange. On the other hand, green belt we called the pain belt because that was where you were trusted enough not to kill your partner or yourself, so the brown and black belts stopped holding back against you in randori (green means GO!).

 

[JudokaUK]

Like Uchi mata I'm a dan grade and instructor and to be honest white belt to green belt (6th-3rd kyu) you're all the same belt as far as I'm concerned.

Any move or promotion with that group of belts isn't a big deal.

Its only when looking to move from green to blue (3rd -2nd kyu) and blue to brown (2nd-1st kyu). That have some minimum standards, which include winning a few fights at competitions.

So yeh 6 months is fine between yellow and orange belts.

I'm not sure what exactly being expected to 'set your own objectives' means though.

 

[Kori]

I usually got promoted in the junior kyu grades after competing. The guys who didn't compete as often as I did took a while to advance.

That being said, in the grand scheme of things there's really little difference between yellow and orange. On the other hand, green belt we called the pain belt because that was where you were trusted enough not to kill your partner or yourself, so the brown and black belts stopped holding back against you in randori (green means GO!).

im a green but im not the best at throws sometimes if you know what i mean, its hard sometimes and takes alot of randori to get used too.. well i get my ass handed to me by brown belts and black belts, they always just toss the shit out of me like they would a black belt.. green really means go lol, and they like use me to demo with the white, yellows, and organges, and just toss me hard knowing i can take it haha

 

[benplante]

Im 28, there ia not much comps for senior beginner. Did one last rear at yellow and won. This year there is only 2 comps for senior like me. Thanks for the infos.

 

[RJ Green]

work on your kazushi. get proficient with the basics. a lot of people fall into this trap of playing the game instead of learning the art. randori isn't a competition, it's just practice.

personally, once i had a feel for the rules and figured out which throws worked for me, i thought i was hot shit. i neglected the basics for incidental slop that just happened to score.

six years later, i find myself constantly analyzing my technique and working out kinks. you know where those kinks came from? bad habits. doing something 1000 times the wrong way just makes you really good at bad judo.