Stripes on BJJ belts?
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Exactly!
I took 3 years to get a blue and then another 3 years to get my purple. I would like to consider myself athletic and good at BJJ for my rank. When I was a 4 stripe blue belt I felt like there were not too many blue belts around that would give me a hard time rolling.
In those 3 years between promotions stripes kept me motivated. There was never a time that I didn't grin ear to ear driving home from BJJ after I had received a stripe. To me, I like it. It shows your improvements have been noticed and it's another step to that next belt.
In those 3 years between promotions stripes kept me motivated. There was never a time that I didn't grin ear to ear driving home from BJJ after I had received a stripe. To me, I like it. It shows your improvements have been noticed and it's another step to that next belt.
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attendance based grading = fail, imo.
would lead to people showing up and pissing around just to clock numbers.
It also fails to account for extra curricular training
He who works hard in class and achieves progress deserves promotion.
He who views it as a social club should struggle to get promoted quickly.
Its important to study and train hard, not just turn up to class often, and this needs to be incentivised.
The only people i would promote on a non performance basis would be those with physical disadvantages i.e. the frail, the disabled and women. For these people demonstrating understanding of technical curriculum is probably a sufficient measuring stick, as it is unreasonable to expect them to be performing against people of equivalent size or rank.
would lead to people showing up and pissing around just to clock numbers.
It also fails to account for extra curricular training
He who works hard in class and achieves progress deserves promotion.
He who views it as a social club should struggle to get promoted quickly.
Its important to study and train hard, not just turn up to class often, and this needs to be incentivised.
The only people i would promote on a non performance basis would be those with physical disadvantages i.e. the frail, the disabled and women. For these people demonstrating understanding of technical curriculum is probably a sufficient measuring stick, as it is unreasonable to expect them to be performing against people of equivalent size or rank.
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I think they do. There's only 4 bjj belts until you get to black, and therefore you spend a significant amount of time in the belt. A 3 stripe white belt is ways ahead of a brand new white belt. And a new blue belt has nothing on a 3-4 stripe blue belt. After purple belt, the stripes don't mean as much from what I've observed since I've seen purple belts from no to 4 stripes give brown belts a really hard time and even submitting them.
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I like to think its a motivation tool too. It's more common than not that it takes around two years to get a blue at our gym. When it takes that long it is really nice to see your progress in a physical form.
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I'm certainly a fan of the stripes. Also, it helps me gauge my rolls. If I draw a no stripe white belt in class, I am going to roll differently with him than a 4 stripe white belt.
Exactly. When I roll with a no stripe white belt I usually pull guard and let him put me in a bad spot so I can work on getting out. I get absolutely nothing from submitting a white belt on his third class. If he's spazzing out I just smash him for a while.
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I wouldn't accept a promotion if I was being beaten by lower belts
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You are NOT getting your BB in under 6 years at GB unless you're a complete Beast/Fenom. Those standards are the absolute minimum and the ultimate decision would fall to the Instructor in charge just like everywhere. The assistant instructor at my school has been a Brown Belt and Top Competitor in the Country for 2 1/2 years. Still No BB. It's just a guideline; nothing more.
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this is made me laugh. I trained at a GB school for 2 years, during that time i saw 3 men become black belts in under 6 yrs. great guys but not beasts or phenoms. prior to my arrival there were already a hand full of blackbelts who were given blackbelts in 5 yrs.
certificates were given on all of these black belts and i know from speaking to a few of these guys who were given black belts that the length of time they trained was exaggerated on the application or request for certificate from GB HQ so the gyms instructor wouldnt receive much flack for the fast belts.
one part blew my mind which was a guy when from purple to black in 1.5 yrs. i was like "damnnnn"
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Yeah man.
I was training with Gracie Barra in 2005 and that shit had already been happening in Brazil for years already. I was all naive and everything and my coach from Texas was an absolute wrecking ball as a brown belt.
So when I went up to a brown belt from GB Brazil and passed his guard EASILY I was hella confused. Stupid me walked up to my black belt coach and asked "Is that guy a brown belt in BJJ?"
I swear it sounded more confused than confrontational, but either way my coach was pissed and he was all "of course! Of course he is! He's one of your brothers!"
Meh, it is what it is. Ya'll take this belt shit to seriously.
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Yeah man.
I was training with Gracie Barra in 2005 and that shit had already been happening in Brazil for years already. I was all naive and everything and my coach from Texas was an absolute wrecking ball as a brown belt.
So when I went up to a brown belt from GB Brazil and passed his guard EASILY I was hella confused. Stupid me walked up to my black belt coach and asked "Is that guy a brown belt in BJJ?"
I swear it sounded more confused than confrontational, but either way my coach was pissed and he was all "of course! Of course he is! He's one of your brothers!"
Meh, it is what it is. Ya'll take this belt shit to seriously.
True we do. But coming from TMAs, it was a nice dream for a time. BJJ belts meant something for a good while. It was a great run though.
That would be disrespectful to your instructor. But yeah I wouldn't want to either.
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I'm honestly not sure if they ever did. I mean...upper belts were amazing to me when I was a white belt but that's because I couldn't grapple.
I have no idea if the people I trained with a decade ago were legit or not. I didn't know anything and I only trained with a small group. I didn't know what other gyms were doing or how they promoted people or how strict they were. I try not to look at the past with rose colored glasses because I'm learning that I can't really trust my memory and experiences when it comes to things like skill level.
Being submitted by lower belts is just a normal day at the office. Doesn't mean anything.
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Agreed Calibur, some of it is rose tinted glasses. Some of it is though, BJJ and training have changed radically since 2005. A lot more train smarter than harder. So that may have something to with it. Also in 2005 my gym had a BB, a few purples, a smattering of blues, and mostly WBs. So yeah, you are prolly mostly right. But I think the BS promotions were rarer, given how macho the sport was then. You just couldn't get away with it as much as you can now
