there are actually alot of damn good whitebelts out there. i know some mma fighters who are whitebelts and they kick ass. also there are the whitebelts who have been training for years, however they never went for promotion, they just kept training. in additon to that there are white belts who may have backrounds in other arts, like wrestling or judo, and will not be easy to finish despite being begginers in bjj.
btw, bjj grappling is way more in depth than the grappling u will learn in a mixed art like krav maga, and kajukenbo and whatnot, therfore it is usually stronger. bjj'ers spend all their time working on grappling, while a mixed art would spend more like 40 % of their time working on grappling.
if u were to join a bjj class, u wouldnt test for a belt. u would train and if u demonstrated great ability and did good in competitions u would probobly just get promoted faster. |