What constitutes a yellow/orange/green belt for kids?

[kingwilly]

I know there have been many "What are the requirements for blue/purple/brown/black belt" threads but I don't recall ever seeing one for the kids' belts.What would a kid have to know to be a yellow/orange/green belt?

 

[Il Wop-O]

Kids belts (at least under Gracie Barra) are more time oriented than adult belts. Kids get stripes (the guideline is 1 stripe per month w/ at least 2 classes per week) and the number of stripes between each belt increases. There are also age minimums.

White belt gets 4 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 4 yrs old)
White/Yellow gets 8 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 4 yrs old)
Yellow gets 12 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 10 years old)
Orange belt gets 16 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 13 years old)
Green belt gets 20 stripes, but when kid turns 16...
Blue Belt!

It's a lot more standardized, so kids get a lot of incremental incentives. The age requirements keep the quality high, so you don't get the TMA thing of 12 yr olds running around with black belts.

My son is stuck with the age thing. He just turned 9, and he's been training since 5-1/2. Can't get his orange until next January. He's so anxious to turn 16. Not to drive, but to get his blue belt. He'll probably get his black belt around 18 or 19. He'll be rediculously good once he starts getting an adult physique!

He'll crush his old man!

 

[Brian2]

My son is stuck with the age thing. He just turned 9, and he's been training since 5-1/2. Can't get his orange until next January. He's so anxious to turn 16. Not to drive, but to get his blue belt. He'll probably get his black belt around 18 or 19. He'll be rediculously good once he starts getting an adult physique!

He'll crush his old man!

this is why my son goes already. He's only 6 but I figure by the time he's my age he'll be in it for 20 years.

 

[johnkreese]

My nephew just told my sister and I he wants to go to school to learn how to breakdance, and not train BJJ. He's 3. :::face palm::::

 

[Mike Wilson Jr.]

^ Take him to a church quick to exercise teh gay out.


I kid, I kid... :wink:

 

[xMikeyX]

Dudes- see John Lewis' story- your kid could be ridiculous with breakdancing and BJJ/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(fighter)

John Lewis was the 4th American in the entire world to receive a black belt in Brazililan Jiu-Jitsu and the 1st student to receive a black belt from Gene Lebell that trained under him from white belt to black belt.


Wikipedia sucks guys- hitting my CFW best of 2001 book to get quotes from an interview- this will be pertinent- I promise.

EDIT:



"In Eight grade I got into "popping" or street dancing- which is like stand-up break dancing- it was very popular at the time. Because I was very athletic I was good at it."

 

[johnkreese]

^ Take him to a church quick to exercise teh gay out.


I kid, I kid... :wink:

HAHA. Oh man, I think my sister will beat it out of him. She's not a very accepting individual.

 

[Balto]

Kids belts (at least under Gracie Barra) are more time oriented than adult belts. Kids get stripes (the guideline is 1 stripe per month w/ at least 2 classes per week) and the number of stripes between each belt increases. There are also age minimums.

White belt gets 4 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 4 yrs old)
White/Yellow gets 8 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 4 yrs old)
Yellow gets 12 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 10 years old)
Orange belt gets 16 stripes, then 1 month after (if kid is at least 13 years old)
Green belt gets 20 stripes, but when kid turns 16...
Blue Belt!

It's a lot more standardized, so kids get a lot of incremental incentives. The age requirements keep the quality high, so you don't get the TMA thing of 12 yr olds running around with black belts.

My son is stuck with the age thing. He just turned 9, and he's been training since 5-1/2. Can't get his orange until next January. He's so anxious to turn 16. Not to drive, but to get his blue belt. He'll probably get his black belt around 18 or 19. He'll be rediculously good once he starts getting an adult physique!

He'll crush his old man!

Twenty stripes on a green belt?

Damn that's a lot of stripes. Half of that belt is going to be stripes.

 

[gasmotorsports]

At my school it pretty much is a yellow belt is equal to a new to mid level blue belt as far as technique. Then orange is like a high level blue and green being like a purple belt as far as technique. Our black belt pretty much doesn't give green belts. Usually if the kid is committed and takes to it they make it to orange and start as a blue once their old enough. I think green belts can start as purples if they have their green long enough. Though I really don't know any cases of that happening.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

My son has his orange belt, no stripes. He's 9 and has been training since he was 6. In our school it is more technique-oriented. Or, at least maybe for him it is. He is not really very aggressive and is very non-confrontational. And I'm a little harder on him about that than his coaches are.

 

[sethk]

Saulo uses these belts for adults at the university of JJ:icon_neut

 

[kingwilly]

Thanks for the replies. Gasmotorsports, yellow is equal to about a new to mid-level blue belt in your school? Your instructor has really high standards. Most kids I've seen with yellow belts didn't seem to have the technique of a blue belt.

I figured yellow would be roughly equal to an adult 2- or 3-stripe white in terms of knowledge of techniques (about halfway to blue). Orange about the same as adult blue belt level and green about halfway to purple (2- or 3-stripe blue). Do any of your instructors do it that way or am I completely off?

Sethk, don't worry. My current instructor uses those at our school also. Lucky for me I was already a blue when I joined.

 

[kingwilly]

ttt for more answers. Or does every school do it the Gracie Barra way?