One quote that I always remember from my martial art training (not BJJ) is: *''You have to be soft to be tough and tough to be soft.''* What I think it means is that to be tough you have to be able to relax (be soft) because when you relax you're faster and you have to be tough to be able to relax in a situation that most people can not relax because they're not tough enough. And another one: *''Practicing technique is getting rid of unnecessary movement that wastes energy. Better physicality allows you to train more technique and the more you train technique the less you waste energy as you become better.''* People can train thousands of hours one technique, but if they don't have the physicality to maintain a good form at the end of each training session then every time they should be training technique they're actually training for endurance which is away from the technique training, because they're tired and can not be as focused and accurate as someone who has good physicality and can train technique easily many hours and get all the benefits form that technique training even at the last minutes.
Keeping the lapels closed is important. I had a new guy literally jump me to pass my guard with no belt on. It was like Batman was falling on a bad guy and ended up in a tangled mess of feet, legs, and a torn gi.
Once again, thank you so much for your videos. I'm in the area but still too far logistically to train with you. We're of similar age...but I learn a ton watching you. Keep uploading!
I think Rob Biernacki's "alignment" is better than "position before submission". Statistically "position before submission" doesn't play out as much as people expect, for example the most common guard leading to a sweep at the IBJJF worlds is 50:50! The most common event before a submission is a scramble. It's not saying "position before submission" is wrong, more a debate about what a valid position is.
Hello, im liking a lot of your videos. Can you talk about the Saulo Ribeiro talk: "If you tink, you late, if you late, you muscle, if you muscle, you tire, and if you tire, you die". Sorry for the bad english, im a brazilian guy with no formal education.
2:15 NO PAIN NO GAIN is only right if you are referring to mental and psychological pain So that sacrifice to wake up early and all that is PAIN But when it comes to your body feeling pain in a particular point while you are working out then forget it. Muscle Soreness is one thing (not all that good) but PAIN is always a problem.
I don't know though- keep in mind I'm a judoka. Throughout school and my life I was an unathletic nerd. I decided to take up judo and I became obsessed with it. I spent a lot of time on the mat. Whenever I had to move and changed schools, had only done it a year but I was very easily able to throw higher belts at the newer school. I feel like my mat time gave me an advantage.
Drugs and alcohol two. Malibus tried to deceive his master (I don't remember if was Rolls, Hélio, Rickson or Carlson brcause he studied with all of them) when he went out for carnival and did drugs he said: Master it's cool, everything slows down and you start to see stars. His master: Really? I can msake you see stars too (he grab him by the head and choked him out) lol. I'm getting old footages and speeches of old students about rolls gracie and trying to put it together as a documentary.
GM Helio and Carlos come from a time in Brazil which tatoos were a thug thing only. Alchool, cigarettes and other stuff were used in rituals of the Candomblé religion which is associated with the Capoeira (back them seem as a marginal art because was practiced by black people from slums) Jiu-jitsu in the other hand was more an elite thing and the guys who started to make it more accessible for the poor were Carlson Gracie, Rolls and the Fadda Lineage. This is why Carlson seems like he treated his fighters as his property demanding loyalty. In fact Carlson had a paternalistic approach treating his students as sons. He was a casca grossa!
@@davibourne3856 great info thank you. I realize most schools today look past tattoos (I have a few) and many black belts have them of course. I just meant I heard Relson Gracie say in an interview he and all of his affiliate schools don't and should not promote people with tattoos on the neck or face. He said they also grade your personal life and hygiene. He also said Helio would call guys with non white gi clowns.
@@William.H.Bonney HahaH The Helio things about clowns is true, the interview with Relson I never seen him saying it. Relson is the image of Helio, in the past while Carlson and n Rolls used to teach for low economic class (mostly coming from the surfing community) Helio would rather do private classes and mostly of the people who had money were also conservative back in the the day. Not only by his moral values but also to preserve his image, Helio avoided everything that could be associated with marginalized behaviour unless someone talks s**. Lately Relson has been focusing to emphasize the importance of self-defence with Rickson and other brothers and he sent aa message to one side of family, "this is my opinion, blue belt who doesn't know how defend himself isn't a grace lineage blue belt if you have anything against that, my GYM is open but I'm also street ready" lol
Your right, belts are there to hold your pants up!. Every student pretty much knows the pecking. Sometimes wearing a higher belt will prevent you to try using new techniques from pride of losing to a lower belt. Simply, try your best every day and keep learning.
@@KamaJiuJitsu , I sure am. Many older adults all having a good time. Good people. Weather getting much nicer and nowhere else can you feel the cool breeze than at Kama Jiu-jitsu Irvine
I was with you UNTIL you made a comment about reading Dr Seuss. For your information, sometimes after reading Dr Seuss, your in a different place, emotionally. My 18 year old self got something different than my 49yr old self. Green eggs & ham means something different now.
What of you have good wrestling baxk ground get into bjj and run through the white belt division in all your tourneys and place in all your blue belt division Gi amd No Gi ,and still a white belt because of a technicality like,the grip,passing or choking in a certain area. Just wondering if you go to another gym can or could you be promoted faster or back to ground zero again. And what if your almost 60 and rolled in all your tournaments in the 18 to and up. Been in bjj for a while and a white belt terminal lol....
thanks! that gi is the Kama Jiu-Jitsu Black Hemp. It's pretty bad ass. We have a few extra in stock that we can offer up for sale since we've covered all the academy membership pre-orders. I have various sizes. Plse email KamaJiuJitsu@gmail.com if you're interested.
It's pretty obvious that imperfect practice won't make perfect. Which is why the phrase 'practice makes perfect' assumes you are generally doing the right thing. I spent months practicing a complex motor skill with terrible form which I was being taught quite erroneously. It took a different instructor to teach me correct form and I've been practising that technique ever since.
"Belts are only good for keeping your pants up" the funny thing about this one in terms of martial arts, it should be be the belt is only good to keep ur gi closed, cuz technically gi pants have draw strings and we dont use our belts to keep our pants up
Really interesting to hear your thoughts on those saying I've heard for a couple years now. The belt holding up your pants always bothered me since it really has nothing to do with your pants. A belt it seems is really like a stamp of authenticity from your professor. It means he feels comfortable allowing you to go out into the world and everywhere you go and to everyone you meet, represent him. It should give you a sort of benchmark of where you are in the wide world or jiu jitsu, most of which you may not experience outside of the 15 or 20 guys maybe in your gym.
I'm a two stripe white belt and I have been training over 4 times /week for one year besides my previous 6 months in another. To me it is not that easy to wait because I'm doing well against blue belts and have a goal of becoming a Jiu-jitsu instructor teaching as volunteering service and working as a policeman
I would think anyday now you will be a blue belt. Some schools promote much faster than others to me belts don't mean that much as we all know the pecking order. Simply, try to improve each day and you don't have to be a black belt to teach
@@Rhardebeck Yep but only blue belts can become assistants and do the instructor course at the head quarter. I try to help as much as I can the guys who are starting but I don't want to make them feel to much overwhelmed nor break my professor's authority. I guess the only thing I can is keep training and getting better because I have no money for competition nor private classes. Thanks for your advice though!
As someone who regularly gets smashed by big guys with less experience and skill than me, I call bullshit on that one! Then again, I do now have enough skill that I can hold some of them in place until they get tired and then make something happen. The important thing is that strength is MUCH less important than skill in jiu jitsu compared to a lot of other sports.
Haha good ones. Paradoxically, in business and entrepreneurship the opposite is true: "fail fast" is a concept which allows one to move on from a project which will not work.
@@threethrushes I think that's true for training too, as long as you notice the mistakes and fix them. It's kinda the same as the "you win or you learn" thing.
Why is the bow and arrow choke so effective and high percentage in competition? I seen it getting used in the street fight on RUclips, a guy tapped a guy 3 times his size in absolute and even supposed greatest bjj competitors still get tapped by this by lower level guys. Seems like a kryptonite lol
Kama Jiu-Jitsu Aye dont flip flop now you had to assure us he was still alive! Nah I got it it was just funny how you spoke. What do you call him then tho? He’s not fake but he’s.. what? Something
There is no such thing as a bad student just a bad instructor .. If the student does not improve it is the responsibility of the instructor to point out his weak points and advise to him what he needs to do to improve ..
I totally disagree. Even if you're not "talented" and you go 4 days in the week, but still "weaker" than the other dude that went just once a week. If you're motivated and got obsession.. you can get as good as that guy. Dont let anybody telling that you cant or eventually you'll quit. Because, hey... like you said you're not talented so even if you give your best you will never be a black belt. This is pretty much what you try to say. One of the black belt in my dojo has agreed that a black belt is a white belt who never give up.
You missed the message completely. In the whole video he talks more about bad practice methods than talent . So yeah if you never give up practicing badly , you will never be good , let alone a blackbelt .
Imagine being a struggling uncoordinated white belt under a teacher who doesn’t take you seriously and talks about how time on the mat and continuing forward won’t be enough for success or promotion.
valid point. let's say, i pay a basketball coach to teach me basketball. i (badly) want to be able to slam dunk a ball. i'm 5' 4.5" tall. what should he tell me? i really REALLY want to play for an NBA team. what should he tell me?
So are you actually implying that reaching black belt in Bjj is somehow akin to making an NBA team? Also, do you really have to be able to dunk to play basketball well? Ok then lol
what i'm saying, is that we may/may not have a limitation that will keep us from attaining any chosen goal in life. statistically speaking, legit black belts are statistical outliers (at least two, maybe even three standard deviations from the mean of all jiu-jitsu practitioners). although i (as an instructor) would love nothing more in life to have a shit ton of KJJ black belts who have gone through our program. the sad truth is, a black belt is more likely a 1/100 or 1/200 occurrence.
No not every one can make it to the NBA. Slam dunking just may be a bit more attainable though, with all of the instructional videos on how to increase your vertical jump. I don't know if reaching the rank of bb is equivalent to making it to the NBA, I do know that people who pay to train anywhere are basically paying an instructor to teach and train them. I think its the instructors job to teach, and the instructor should not give up on them or not take them seriously if they appear to be limited in some way. I don't know how far each individual can go, but its worth their while to give their best shot. Not to sound cliche. I also think the instructor should put forth their best effort to take the most limited student to bb or at least as far as they can take them, even if that means they need to spend a little extra time and give a little more attention to that student.
wait what... a blackbelt getting eaten alive by white belts on the regular... I mean can understand 11 months white belt 6' 1" 225 vs a purple belt 5' 11" 180 and with a little bit of power and some technique he is able to get a few positions and maybe even a tap or 2 here and there with his bread and butter signature move that he loves but to be tapping a "black belt" on the regular as a white belt... thats def wouldnt fly at my school.. i can remember a brown belt who was away for a year or 2 came back and it took him a month or 2 to get back into things but he wasnt getting tapped by white belts EVER....so for a regular training black belt to be getting worked over by white belts wow that just blows my mind, how can you walk around as a bb and know that white belts have a better grasp of positions/techniques so that they can work you over.
I don't understand belt mania. I don't want my blue belt until the other white belts who can beat the crap out of me have been promoted first. People who think a belt will improve their Jiu Jitsu are like the people who think that marriage will improve their relationship.
Here's one I like better: "Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent."
That’s a good one!
I heard that back when i played soccer as a kid
Tiger woods' dad said that
I like not having the music in the background during the vlogging
Thank you sir! "If you fail to plan, then plan to fail." :-)
One quote that I always remember from my martial art training (not BJJ) is:
*''You have to be soft to be tough and tough to be soft.''*
What I think it means is that to be tough you have to be able to relax (be soft) because when you relax you're faster
and you have to be tough to be able to relax in a situation that most people can not relax because they're not tough enough.
And another one:
*''Practicing technique is getting rid of unnecessary movement that wastes energy.
Better physicality allows you to train more technique and the more you train technique
the less you waste energy as you become better.''*
People can train thousands of hours one technique,
but if they don't have the physicality to maintain a good form
at the end of each training session then every time they should be training technique
they're actually training for endurance which is away from the technique training,
because they're tired and can not be as focused and accurate as someone
who has good physicality and can train technique easily many hours and get
all the benefits form that technique training even at the last minutes.
Keeping the lapels closed is important. I had a new guy literally jump me to pass my guard with no belt on. It was like Batman was falling on a bad guy and ended up in a tangled mess of feet, legs, and a torn gi.
Once again, thank you so much for your videos. I'm in the area but still too far logistically to train with you. We're of similar age...but I learn a ton watching you. Keep uploading!
Really? How far?
Mansfield area.
Not THAT far.
I think Rob Biernacki's "alignment" is better than "position before submission". Statistically "position before submission" doesn't play out as much as people expect, for example the most common guard leading to a sweep at the IBJJF worlds is 50:50! The most common event before a submission is a scramble. It's not saying "position before submission" is wrong, more a debate about what a valid position is.
Hello, im liking a lot of your videos. Can you talk about the Saulo Ribeiro talk: "If you tink, you late, if you late, you muscle, if you muscle, you tire, and if you tire, you die". Sorry for the bad english, im a brazilian guy with no formal education.
I like that! All true. Saulo is a wise man.
@@KamaJiuJitsu ahaha. I think in this quote all the time, its pratical and inspirational.
Anytime I hear Oss I wanna swan dive off the roof
Yeah I said it...
Why?
Haha!
Why are they saying Osu in your Brazilian Jujutsu school? That's a Kyokushin Karate thing
@@MarioUcomics more accurately a Japanese thing. I've heard it in traditional Judo and traditional karate classes of different styles.
Bjjs mother is jiu jitsu which is a japanese martial art
Here is one. You will not revert to your level of training, you will revert to the level of training you have mastered.
2:15 NO PAIN NO GAIN is only right if you are referring to mental and psychological pain
So that sacrifice to wake up early and all that is PAIN
But when it comes to your body feeling pain in a particular point while you are working out then forget it.
Muscle Soreness is one thing (not all that good) but PAIN is always a problem.
I don't know though- keep in mind I'm a judoka. Throughout school and my life I was an unathletic nerd. I decided to take up judo and I became obsessed with it. I spent a lot of time on the mat. Whenever I had to move and changed schools, had only done it a year but I was very easily able to throw higher belts at the newer school. I feel like my mat time gave me an advantage.
Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect
Egos and shoes outside!
Tattoos on your neck or face can stop you from getting a black belt or wear colors other than white gi according to Relson and Helio's book.
Drugs and alcohol two. Malibus tried to deceive his master (I don't remember if was Rolls, Hélio, Rickson or Carlson brcause he studied with all of them) when he went out for carnival and did drugs he said: Master it's cool, everything slows down and you start to see stars.
His master: Really? I can msake you see stars too (he grab him by the head and choked him out) lol. I'm getting old footages and speeches of old students about rolls gracie and trying to put it together as a documentary.
GM Helio and Carlos come from a time in Brazil which tatoos were a thug thing only. Alchool, cigarettes and other stuff were used in rituals of the Candomblé religion which is associated with the Capoeira (back them seem as a marginal art because was practiced by black people from slums) Jiu-jitsu in the other hand was more an elite thing and the guys who started to make it more accessible for the poor were Carlson Gracie, Rolls and the Fadda Lineage. This is why Carlson seems like he treated his fighters as his property demanding loyalty. In fact Carlson had a paternalistic approach treating his students as sons. He was a casca grossa!
@@davibourne3856 great info thank you. I realize most schools today look past tattoos (I have a few) and many black belts have them of course. I just meant I heard Relson Gracie say in an interview he and all of his affiliate schools don't and should not promote people with tattoos on the neck or face. He said they also grade your personal life and hygiene. He also said Helio would call guys with non white gi clowns.
@@William.H.Bonney HahaH The Helio things about clowns is true, the interview with Relson I never seen him saying it. Relson is the image of Helio, in the past while Carlson and n Rolls used to teach for low economic class (mostly coming from the surfing community) Helio would rather do private classes and mostly of the people who had money were also conservative back in the the day. Not only by his moral values but also to preserve his image, Helio avoided everything that could be associated with marginalized behaviour unless someone talks s**. Lately Relson has been focusing to emphasize the importance of self-defence with Rickson and other brothers and he sent aa message to one side of family, "this is my opinion, blue belt who doesn't know how defend himself isn't a grace lineage blue belt if you have anything against that, my GYM is open but I'm also street ready" lol
ruclips.net/video/5AjYuPFFEGc/видео.html at about the 2 min mark.
Your right, belts are there to hold your pants up!. Every student pretty much knows the pecking. Sometimes wearing a higher belt will prevent you to try using new techniques from pride of losing to a lower belt. Simply, try your best every day and keep learning.
you have it exactly right, Bob! i hope you're enjoying the ride here!
@@KamaJiuJitsu , I sure am. Many older adults all having a good time. Good people. Weather getting much nicer and nowhere else can you feel the cool breeze than at Kama Jiu-jitsu Irvine
Thank you for your patience with that, Bob. We really appreciate you all!
I was with you UNTIL you made a comment about reading Dr Seuss.
For your information, sometimes after reading Dr Seuss, your in a different place, emotionally. My 18 year old self got something different than my 49yr old self.
Green eggs & ham means something different now.
What of you have good wrestling baxk ground get into bjj and run through the white belt division in all your tourneys and place in all your blue belt division Gi amd No Gi ,and still a white belt because of a technicality like,the grip,passing or choking in a certain area.
Just wondering if you go to another gym can or could you be promoted faster or back to ground zero again.
And what if your almost 60 and rolled in all your tournaments in the 18 to and up.
Been in bjj for a while and a white belt terminal lol....
We want Uncle Sheldon interview! Tako JJ! - Adam
dope gi ryan. well spoken as always.
thanks! that gi is the Kama Jiu-Jitsu Black Hemp. It's pretty bad ass. We have a few extra in stock that we can offer up for sale since we've covered all the academy membership pre-orders. I have various sizes. Plse email KamaJiuJitsu@gmail.com if you're interested.
I dont chase belts. I'll let the belt chase me. The mats will always be there. Train, drill, flow, roll, have fun and respect your training partners.
12:34 SHAAAAAAADE! I can't even.
It's pretty obvious that imperfect practice won't make perfect.
Which is why the phrase 'practice makes perfect' assumes you are generally doing the right thing.
I spent months practicing a complex motor skill with terrible form which I was being taught quite erroneously.
It took a different instructor to teach me correct form and I've been practising that technique ever since.
"Belts are only good for keeping your pants up" the funny thing about this one in terms of martial arts, it should be be the belt is only good to keep ur gi closed, cuz technically gi pants have draw strings and we dont use our belts to keep our pants up
Ohhhh really?😱😱😱😱
Angles make Strangles
Really interesting to hear your thoughts on those saying I've heard for a couple years now. The belt holding up your pants always bothered me since it really has nothing to do with your pants. A belt it seems is really like a stamp of authenticity from your professor. It means he feels comfortable allowing you to go out into the world and everywhere you go and to everyone you meet, represent him. It should give you a sort of benchmark of where you are in the wide world or jiu jitsu, most of which you may not experience outside of the 15 or 20 guys maybe in your gym.
Belts are the business of any kind of martial arts!
So what is the purpose of the coral belts? I just a white belt, no stripe, just started at 42. I'm just curious.
Honoring our old guys.
son of StormShadow coral belt signifies 7th amd 8th degree
I'm a two stripe white belt and I have been training over 4 times /week for one year besides my previous 6 months in another. To me it is not that easy to wait because I'm doing well against blue belts and have a goal of becoming a Jiu-jitsu instructor teaching as volunteering service and working as a policeman
I would think anyday now you will be a blue belt. Some schools promote much faster than others to me belts don't mean that much as we all know the pecking order. Simply, try to improve each day and you don't have to be a black belt to teach
@@Rhardebeck Yep but only blue belts can become assistants and do the instructor course at the head quarter. I try to help as much as I can the guys who are starting but I don't want to make them feel to much overwhelmed nor break my professor's authority. I guess the only thing I can is keep training and getting better because I have no money for competition nor private classes. Thanks for your advice though!
You'll get your blue very soon
Robert Hardebeck what’s more important, the belt or what you’ve learned?
@@user-jn7if5cv5s of course what you've learned.
Will you bring back the cow? Miss that tbh..
What 🐄?
Ryan’s kids made that for him. He’s still got it. Maybe we can cameo it again in the future for you! - Rusty
"Strength doesn’t matter in BJJ"
JCBPARISPARIS Generally said by the strong
As someone who regularly gets smashed by big guys with less experience and skill than me, I call bullshit on that one! Then again, I do now have enough skill that I can hold some of them in place until they get tired and then make something happen. The important thing is that strength is MUCH less important than skill in jiu jitsu compared to a lot of other sports.
@@XKenny77 What about big guys with no grapple experience at all? ;)
@@oliverdaniel7648 They're the ones whose strength doesn't matter. 😊
Strength and strength in grip are very important but there is a difference in grappling strength and lifting strength
That was hilarious professor
You never fail until you quit trying. OR Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.
Haha good ones.
Paradoxically, in business and entrepreneurship the opposite is true: "fail fast" is a concept which allows one to move on from a project which will not work.
@@threethrushes I think that's true for training too, as long as you notice the mistakes and fix them. It's kinda the same as the "you win or you learn" thing.
Very true...@@threethrushes
My favorite is, "Whether she's white, black, Asian or hispanic, it's always pink on the inside"
Iron sharpens iron (I hope I didn't miss you say this.)
I’ll rather stay a low key white belt 😏
Hey I'm 18. 19 by april 3rd. I've always been wanting to do bjj and join the ufc. Do you think im too old start?
Nope
Not even close to too old. You could be a black belt by 30
"To be a lion you must train with lions" Carlson Gracie?
I’m curious to know what your opinion is on school that does 70% on bjj and then 30% on judo?
Nothing wrong with that. School Owner’s can do what they feel is best.
Piss pour preparation produces piss pour performance
Why is the bow and arrow choke so effective and high percentage in competition? I seen it getting used in the street fight on RUclips, a guy tapped a guy 3 times his size in absolute and even supposed greatest bjj competitors still get tapped by this by lower level guys. Seems like a kryptonite lol
No, there is a counter.
@@KamaJiuJitsu of course just wondered why so effective
I think a cross collar from the choke is more effective.
I think a RNC from the back is more effective.
‘And he’s still walking around today.’ Ryan’s talking like the fake bb is Bigfoot or something hahaha I assumed he was still alive Ryan thanks tho
He’s not “fake.” It was given to him by a legit BB. “Fake” is when they award themselves.
Kama Jiu-Jitsu Aye dont flip flop now you had to assure us he was still alive! Nah I got it it was just funny how you spoke. What do you call him then tho? He’s not fake but he’s.. what? Something
@@973reggie He would be "overated" I have an idea who he might be talking about....
Oh, do you? PM me, and tell me who you got.
@@KamaJiuJitsu Can't figure out the message ap on here... are the guys initials E O ?
There is no such thing as a bad student just a bad instructor .. If the student does not improve it is the responsibility of the instructor to point out his weak points and
advise to him what he needs to do to improve ..
I totally disagree. Even if you're not "talented" and you go 4 days in the week, but still "weaker" than the other dude that went just once a week. If you're motivated and got obsession.. you can get as good as that guy. Dont let anybody telling that you cant or eventually you'll quit. Because, hey... like you said you're not talented so even if you give your best you will never be a black belt. This is pretty much what you try to say. One of the black belt in my dojo has agreed that a black belt is a white belt who never give up.
You missed the message completely. In the whole video he talks more about bad practice methods than talent . So yeah if you never give up practicing badly , you will never be good , let alone a blackbelt .
Imagine being a struggling uncoordinated white belt under a teacher who doesn’t take you seriously and talks about how time on the mat and continuing forward won’t be enough for success or promotion.
valid point.
let's say, i pay a basketball coach to teach me basketball. i (badly) want to be able to slam dunk a ball. i'm 5' 4.5" tall.
what should he tell me?
i really REALLY want to play for an NBA team.
what should he tell me?
So are you actually implying that reaching black belt in Bjj is somehow akin to making an NBA team? Also, do you really have to be able to dunk to play basketball well? Ok then lol
what i'm saying, is that we may/may not have a limitation that will keep us from attaining any chosen goal in life.
statistically speaking, legit black belts are statistical outliers (at least two, maybe even three standard deviations from the mean of all jiu-jitsu practitioners). although i (as an instructor) would love nothing more in life to have a shit ton of KJJ black belts who have gone through our program. the sad truth is, a black belt is more likely a 1/100 or 1/200 occurrence.
No not every one can make it to the NBA. Slam dunking just may be a bit more attainable though, with all of the instructional videos on how to increase your vertical jump. I don't know if reaching the rank of bb is equivalent to making it to the NBA, I do know that people who pay to train anywhere are basically paying an instructor to teach and train them. I think its the instructors job to teach, and the instructor should not give up on them or not take them seriously if they appear to be limited in some way. I don't know how far each individual can go, but its worth their while to give their best shot. Not to sound cliche. I also think the instructor should put forth their best effort to take the most limited student to bb or at least as far as they can take them, even if that means they need to spend a little extra time and give a little more attention to that student.
wait what... a blackbelt getting eaten alive by white belts on the regular... I mean can understand 11 months white belt 6' 1" 225 vs a purple belt 5' 11" 180 and with a little bit of power and some technique he is able to get a few positions and maybe even a tap or 2 here and there with his bread and butter signature move that he loves but to be tapping a "black belt" on the regular as a white belt... thats def wouldnt fly at my school.. i can remember a brown belt who was away for a year or 2 came back and it took him a month or 2 to get back into things but he wasnt getting tapped by white belts EVER....so for a regular training black belt to be getting worked over by white belts wow that just blows my mind, how can you walk around as a bb and know that white belts have a better grasp of positions/techniques so that they can work you over.
true story.
I don't understand belt mania. I don't want my blue belt until the other white belts who can beat the crap out of me have been promoted first. People who think a belt will improve their Jiu Jitsu are like the people who think that marriage will improve their relationship.