What does it take to be a blue & purple belt?
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2023
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Being able to beat a larger person is one of the coolest prerequisites
Some David and Goliath shi
Big difference between tapping
Jimmy:300 lbs and sits at an office job all day.
compared to Gunther:225, played d1 football and is a firefighter.
@@bobbybush1750 the main difference would be conditioning but in the end both will tap to exhaustion
Being larger and knowing jujitsu is best
@@rumchata6569Saw a D2 wrestler tap a purple belt with a month of BJJ clasess
And apparently a prerequisite for white belts is 3 scoops of pre-workout
Do you find that higher belts tend to use pre workout less?
@@CDABXXXI think he means being a spaz
Prerequisite for white belt is pre workout, steroids, and when I see red, it’s over
Personalky i think pre workout has always made my exercises great but as far as rolling heart isngoing to fast and actually found i was strong but cardio would take a hit rather quickly esoecially taking on better partners and having oxygen taking away i found recovery was lessen from pre workout. Best prep is a good night sleep @CDABXXX
The stereotypical white belt.. in my experience.
Use strength for everything
Forget to breathe
Over crank every single submission
Claim “I didn’t tap” when an upper belt shows mercy and let’s go of a sub.
Hit partner with elbows, knees, and punches while spazzing I mean rolling
Go for heel hooks and knee bars on day one
Just got my blue belt today
That's awesome!! Congrats
Congrats!
You still training?
Jujitsu’s a straight super power, there’s very few feelings better then when a new big guy comes to the gym and thinks he’s gonna have an easy day, only to be tapped by women, 15yo kids and the like. It’s beautiful to witness they’re expressions change from “yeah this is gonna be fun “ to “tf have gotten myself into”
I’ve been training for 9 months now and rolled with my first brand new guy the other day, and the gap was surprising. No offense to him of course, we all were new at one point. It just really put into perspective how much of a difference even just a little bit of training makes.
Most white belts dont realize they are getting better because the whole room is learning the same technique so your not getting better against your competition, until the new guy comes and then all of the training shows.
Good for you! I felt like I wasn't progressing around 6 months and I finally submitted this other white belt that had way more experience than me,half my age and stronger. Since then, him and I became really good friends and pushed each other really hard. Keep going! 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Yeah and also who you’re bringing in..
I’m at 7 months, same thing just happened at my gym. When you feel like progress is moving slowly and we are getting frustrated, it’s always nice to see how far we’ve come by rolling against a new student
As a fairly new white belt, about a month of training, it's crazy how much better I am already. I mean granted the bar wasn't very high, I would get into a position and just have no idea what to do, even if it was a good position. Now I'm always working on something where I'm at instead of just surviving
Im almost at white belt.👍🏼
good luck
It's the hardest belt to obtain, really.
@@davidmiller-zf8zl thats true cuz most people never done and never will do bjj
Good luck man took me 22 and a half years to obtain 😂
@@7arb-f-15 damn that’s a good point. “Gaining” a white belt in itself is pretty uncommon if you think about it. It’s a small step but it’s arguably the most important one.
Recently just got my purple belt, seems a daunting task to do it justice, but we keep learning and improving.
Do ya'll have like a contact list of "Untrained Large Persons" that you book for tests?
the explaining part is where i struggle a little, i feel like when i roll it’s more instinctual because i can feel the weight distribution and “levers” when we’re in the flow of things. i do mma now but wrestling and jui jitsu were my first martial arts. since i try to blend everything together with mma i have a feeling that i’m not going to be able to look at jui jitsu in that way anymore.
I thought it was making sure your monthly tuition is paid on time for 12 months
Is that sakuraba in the comments
Blue belt alone can take a couple of years haha
I have never seen or even heard or getting a Blue belt in BJJ in a year. Even if you went every day for that year. Nope.
@@vik12Dehhh. 10-15 years ago, yes. With the progression of online instructionals combined with someone who is already athletically gifted and dedicated, they can easily come in and get a blue belt in 1 year.
My uncle did bjj when I was a kid and would show me stuff a lot(I was basically his glorified dummy) so when I started training at an actual gym years later, I already had a basic understanding of the fundamental movements and positions because I had already been put in them multiple times. I was also absolutely in love and training twice a day when I first started so I received my blue belt within 1 year.
I’m actually a purple belt now and there’s a guy who started 6 months before me who just received his second stripe on his blue belt, 4 years later and at the same time I received my purple belt.
Everyone’s journey is different but I’m a young, single, kid-less guy who just works and trains so obviously my progression will be way faster than someone who is older and has a family. Lol
@@vik12D Ok well that’s a silly statement. If you’re a collegiate wrestler or a black belt in judo you might get blue belt in a year. Also, if someone is going every day plus maybe going to an open mat on the weekends to put more work in, they could totally get it in a year. It’s not impossible to do at all. Shit, that one B-Team guy got his brown belt in 3, and he’s a killer too, really good.
Thanks for the information! I was thinking about what the belts were for.😊
My gym is having our belt ceremony tonight, 4 stripe white belt here, wish me luck! 😅
HOW DID IT GO BOSS???
How did it go????
How was it
How'd it go??
@@Matt-ud9op lol I already replied. But I got it!
Man my gym doesn't give blues unless we can win a national tournament and man handle homies like 100lbs on us...rip. Purples give black belts from other gyms a hard time. The bar here is insane
What gym?
@@mrmann408Still no answer. Ridiculous
In my dojo, it is a Brownbelt level atleast winning at Regional Tournament. But National Tournaments is a whole new level.
Sounds like my gym lol. To be fair I am a hobbyist at a NoGi Comp School. I'm a blue belt training 4.5 years, according to this video I should've been Purple but every school is different
Great video!
Every blackbelt has a variation of requirements. A good book that outlines what he is saying and most blackbelts (including myself) can agree with is written by Xander Ribeiro (Forgive me, his name is probably spelled wrong. However, it will suffice to look it up). Cheers.
Well said, Andris
Hope I can make it to blue next year
My coach said he will only give a blue belt to someone who can invert. Because I have back and neck injuries i won't ever be able to but I'm happy being a while belt and looking forward to competing more this year
Get a new coach. That is a beyond silly.
The blue belt is such a step up to the white belt
Based on this I'm a solid purple belt. But I am a new blue submitting several year purples and fighting browns to round end. I've dedicated so so much time to learning, training several gyms, and techniques.
According to you I’m a purple belt woohoooo
Just received my fourth stripe on my blue belt tonight. I agree with everything he says.
Never trained bjj a day in my life (will start this august), but I have rolled with my friend (also untrained in bjj) that weighs 230 lbs (104.3 kg), or 90 lbs (40.8 kg) above me, many times and I have a high submission rate against him. Only problem is that I’m terrible at taking down all opponents, even my weight, so I have to focus on defending while standing and being more aggressive on the ground. Only reason I submit him a lot is because I watch videos about different bjj techniques and there is also a guy in my dojang that has experience with bjj and helps me learn some fundamentals.
I’ve only gone to 3 BJJ classes but I’ve been scrapping with my cousins and brother my whole life and I guess I meet the criteria for blue belt.
Somebody give him a Blubelt.
@@m5a1stuart83 lol
Been following the ufc since I was 6 years old and never heard of the term shrimping until now lol
Its probly the most common word in bjj lol
@@pur3pk3r39 Not even, I looked it up and we just called that hip escaping when I did BJJ. Also, never heard Rogan or Goldberg say “shrimping”.
@@Joseph-ed6hl"shrimping" is a very real term, even if it's just a synonym for hip escape.
It comes from judo, which is the root of BJJ. I Japan they call it ebi, which literally means shrimp, because the movement resembles such.
I’m a white belt 4 stripes and I already have my own style. My physical strength isn’t great, I can get overpowered easily but I have great balance and do fantastic falls. Also I’m cool as on the mats no matter what perils I face 😎
The only sweep I have a good handle on is the child’s sweep. I love it
Been doing mma and apperently I should have a blue belt give it to me now!
Nice 👍🏼 - Subscribed…
Big wrestler has entered the arena
Prerequisites for a brown belt: buy pants that are slightly too big for you.
You also have to have at least 3-4 major injuries that still plague you
Thanks now I am now blue belt
Solid standards
I just smashed my way to purple 💜🟣
So
I should be a purple belt.
Could you do brown belt out of curiosity
Funny that most people in the comments probably don’t know who Andris is. Super bjj and had some amazing battles with my friends and teammates back in his LI years. Known for his formidable omoplata. RUclips some matches of Andris Brunovskis and enjoy some great Jiu Jitsu.
This is one of the reasons BJJ is watered down now. When I first started purple belts were basically the equivalent of modern black belts. The main difference between then and now is I think the dominance of no-gi and wrestling as a dominant aspect of Jiu Jitsu. Then again times are a lot different from the late 90s/early 2000s.
When your a wrestler who loves watching mma and can beat lil bit bigger blue belts on your first day
Started bjj december 2016. Stopped during covid 2019. Started again in 2022.. been doing 3-4x a week for almost 2 years now. Subbed most white and bluebelt 😂 im still 4 stripe white hahahaa. All good though im having fun. Belt dont matter, its having fun that matters.
So you’re saying I should have a purple bet?
On your last day you go out on the street and pick a fight with a random 230 pounder
These videos just enhance my imposter syndrome.
I identify as a white belt
what about the green belt?
Bro I’m a purple belt then and I’ve never done BJJ
What are all the bad positions?
My 6 year old year just became a yellow belt today.
So you just grab random large guys off the street and offer'em $20 to try to F up you're 4 stripe white belts to see if they pass that prereq? 😅
Hey man I’m a one stripe white belt i’ve been doing bjj for 2 years I can beat every white belt in my gym and the higher belts can’t tap me anymore really my defence is very good I also know all the fundamentals off the back of my head and i’m very good at explaining things to newcomers but I feel my teacher doesn’t see my progress and picks favourites but I genuinely feel like a blue belt already just wearing the wrong colour. any advice anyone?
my other buddy has 3 stripes and is about to get his blue belt but he can’t tap me and we have good competitive rolls. he started only 2-3 weeks before me
Ur teacher just doesn’t like you lol
Yeah you should change gyms. If purple belts your size aren’t tapping you then your professor doesn’t like you or it is a bad school. Blue should take 1-2 years to obtain if consistently training.
Competing in tournaments is the fastest way to rank up and show what you’ve learned
I’m a purple belt then by these videos
White belt prerequisite, but a gi that comes with a white belt
What exactly is considered larger if you weigh 170 lbs. My class only has 1 other person and he's 220ish. Stand up I'm ok but still definately feel the weight difference. Truthfully though I focus more on Judo since Jiu jitsu is a brand new class at my gym. I just wanted more time to train.
Pre-requisites - Seems to vary dramatically across all schools and be completely subjective and arbitrary.
Blue belt is cool in theory but with those prerequisites if they were to compete at the new bluebelt level they would get smashed.
What if I'm the biggest dude in the gym, will I forever be a white belt?
What about a brown or black
My ma just got here blue belt and she did all of those so no cap🚩
bro i want to do bjj so bad. there's no gym around me, but I want to do some of the most wild and insane movements. Like i'm talking flipping over them or doing some of those goofy Scarlett Johansen moves.
Start with a friend. Something is better than nothing
I just got my purple belt this past weekend. 😊
I could do that easy(never have i stepped in a bjj gym)
According to you I should be purple belt at least
Brown belt here, I don't have mastery of anything... I promise you a Blue Belt doesn't either.
I can already beat many of my friends who are larger than me as a white belt with three weeks experience
That's the power of jiu jitsu. Even a few lessons will be enough to beat most untrained people. You definitely need much more for a blue belt though.
All of those things are blue belt in my opiniom
Imma never get my 🟣 belt 😭
I have red belt level
Until you meet competition blue belts
I have a leather belt, several nylon belts of various colors, and bungee cords. I can see as many as 17-19 altercations in a year, and most of them against an armed assailant.
How am I doing so far?😂😂😂
I’m now realizing the gyms have a way different variation of what blue belt is not to sound cocky but as a white belt I can tap almost anyone who’s bigger then me if there are untrained unless they are a literal 260 pound linebacker like today I could very easily tap a 1 year wrestler who was 200 pounds (I’m 130) and I can escape a lot of bad positions
bjj... whenever I watched people trained back I'm like ugh? it doesn't looked cool and sweaty people going that close to each other no. but damn was I wrong it's probabl the most practical martial arts out there.
Every good white belt can beat an untrained person who is bigger than them tho
So I don't qualify for blue yet
I can already beat dudes bigger than me and I know like 2 escapes 😭
I wouldnt say that you have "mastery" of fundamentals at blue belt 🤔
It’s actually pay 400 to 500 for the belt, pay homage to your founder and instructor and above all else do not train any where other than your dojo. It is the reason why BJJ will never be a universal martial art or Olympic sport and will have the same issues just like the old schools in late 1870’s Japan. Try judo, it will change your life.
The ability to defend and escape all bad positions is not indicative of a blue belt but a black belt.
I think he means being proficient at an array of techniques to escape bad positions such as being mounted, having your back taken or pinned in side control, which is certainly expected before gaining a blue belt
@James Brown Perhaps, but I know many, many blue, purple, and brown belts who still struggle escaping these positions.
It all depends on who you are rolling against.
Even if a white belt does all things correct to try to escape these positions, a superior player who does all the right things will not allow the white belt to escape.
I had this exact conversation Monday night with a 4 stripe purple belt who I have trained with since he started.
He was lamenting that nothing seemed to work against me and nothing he does is right/ correct or otherwise it would work.
I simply explained my right and correct is better than his.
And I say this is as a 3 year brown belt from the Yamasaki Academy.
@@Carlito4629I agree
a white belt should bea ble to do that
@biggooba6706 If you believe so, then you have not trained.
Ive been to this gym before! They have killers in there
Blue eyed people getting into Jiu jitsu just to get into position to let you know they have blue eyes
In che senso
Seems like a whole lot of grey area here
There really isn’t any real standard of what it takes to get the belts. Every gym is different. I used to train in CT where I got my blue belt…I got my purple out here in San Diego and the game is way better out here than in CT..I went back home for Christmas and trained there and it wasn’t even a challenge
😂 what does Bells domain s*** pay for the classes and you'll get them
bro what? i beat brown belts in my gym I have no stripe on my white belt been training 3 years, go about 3 days aweek
What is the highest belt color level
A solid red belt would be the highest possible in adult BJJ. You’d have to pass coral and the red/white though… that’s mastery level training like a long lifetime
Or like in El Paso just show up pay your months and get a belt its a thing here
I al a white belt in a good school but i feel some of the new blue belts are not there yet. Kinda annoying to see tbh. I prefer to be a white belt who can beat a blue belt
I can forward roll back roll and shrimp as hard as a mfer. I can beat someone who's bigger than me if they untrained. But i get whooped by blue belts. So still a white
I hate that some schools charge people for belt promotions. At my old school I had to pay 35$ and travel 40 minutes out of town to receive my belt because it was out gyms HQ. A dude I’d never met tied the belt around me as well. Luckily I left my old gym because they were money hungry and the coach was just an awful person. But to pay for something I “earned” has always seemed so silly to me.
I was going to take over running a jiu-jitsu gym from this karate guy who was a brown belt in jiu-jitsu. He told me we are going to charge for belts and i shut that shit right down.
@@mtgsalt1151 that’s the best way to do it. Charging somebody for something they “earned” is just wild. It’s obviously a quick buck for the gym owner and it devalues the belt if I have to purchase it myself. Good on you.
Ous
I only train UFC. That’s all you need.
My coach was not that well organized. It really depended on his mood on any given day!
Belts are meaningless. Just enjoy grappling. I doubt most blue belts have a good crucifix escape plan 😅. Probably pretty good at mount and side control escapes tho 💪
Sounds like something a white belt would say
I would argue a crucifix is not a basic position
Exactly! I approve your message, a belt is used to keep your pants up... this whole bjj belt color nonsense has become a religious cult; this is why i stayed with judo because its far cheaper for classes and more organized
@@markdaniels4178 You are a brown belt in Judo if you learn how to escape crucifix positions.
@@m5a1stuart83 I'm a black belt in judo
Man, you missed so much for both. I get it that you had 60 seconds for a short but there is an enormous amount behind getting to blue and purple.
Waste of a comment
@@ChokeArtist411 uh huh.
Asking for any amount of mastery at the blue belt level is unreasonable.
just know the basic stuff and able to escape from whitebelt pressures. you know, whitebelt tend to go serious mode to a bluebelt and smash by the purplebelt.
Bluebelt basically a meat sandwich.
White and blue belts are still beginner belts. Purple is the first advanced belt where you should have some moves/positions that are expert level. Purples will still have some holes in their game and need to polish some of their weaker spots but they are advanced for sure. Blue belts should know all the basics and fundamental concepts but might be missing some key details still.
🙊🙉🙈
Its easy to beat an untrained person in jiu jitsu but in a street brawl that doesn’t always work. A good striker with take down defense is a major problem
You still have the upper hand because you have those things as well
if it's a good striker they wouldnt be "brawling"
Lol sounds like you’re a great Andrew Tate fan
At my gym beating someone that is bigger than you who is even trained and being able to demonstrate the fundamentals is still not a perquisite for getting a blue belt lol
nuh uh
Isn’t the blue belt giving to you when you hit 16 ???
If they have trained long enough. You dont just get one just because you are 16
By the standards, I should be a blue belt, so I don’t think they’re 100%.
Actually, I guess I haven’t mastered all the defense required. I only got the movement so wel bc of wresting
Woah, careful with your use of the word "mastery👌" In this context try "competence👍"