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Old 07-03-2003, 05:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Ok I just started taking BJJ and my instructor is a brown belt. I thuoght you had to be a black belt to teach martial arts. Why does it take so long to get a black belt?
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Ok I just started taking BJJ and my instructor is a brown belt. I thuoght you had to be a black belt to teach martial arts. Why does it take so long to get a black belt?
Well maybe the belt system in BJJ is different from most other martial arts?

Maybe a BJJ brown belt is equivilent to a....oh..... I dunno... say a 2nd degree black belt in another art.
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Martial art rankings for reputable schools/styles takes a lot of work and time. In BJJ and other reputable MAs you will earn your belt; in other styles you simply pay for it.

If you are an MA prodigy and win MMA tournaments left and right, you might earn a BB in BJJ in 4 years. Through regular instruction and grappling 2-3x per week, maybe 8-10 years.

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Ok I just started taking BJJ and my instructor is a brown belt. I thuoght you had to be a black belt to teach martial arts. Why does it take so long to get a black belt?
It doesn't take that long at all, in a crap art. In a good art, it takes time to get that good. Just be the best that you can be and, eventually, you will get there if you stick at it.
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I would say a blue belt in BJJ is like a black belt in other crap kwon do arts. Except a black belt in crap kwon do would still get his ass kicked by a blue belt bjj guy.

If you're learning from a brown belt, and you're not overpaying, consider yourself lucky.
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I would say a blue belt in BJJ is like a black belt in other crap kwon do arts. Except a black belt in crap kwon do would still get his ass kicked by a blue belt bjj guy.

If you're learning from a brown belt, and you're not overpaying, consider yourself lucky.
Yeah I'm taking BJJ and JKD and I'm only paying $55 a month, I think its a great price. Some other places I looked into wanted to charge me out the ass. It seems like a really good school too, great atmosphere, great instuctors.
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Who is your BJJ instructor affiliated with or who did he get his brown belt under?
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Im not quite sure, next time I'm in I'll ask him.
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OK, my instructor got his brown belt under Professor Sylvio Behring, he has also trained with Rickson and Renzo Gracie.
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I would say a blue belt in BJJ could definately dismantle black belts from just about any other art. It does take a very long time in BJJ to get a black belt (most places around 10yrs.). My teacher has been doing BJJ most of his life and he has a 2nd black he recieved while living in Brazil and then trained with Rickson when he came to the states and he currently has a purple belt with their school.
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My main instructor is a blue belt in BJJ, but his instructor and my part-time instructor is Carlos Rollyson, 5th degree black belt and fast as ****. But my instructor my only be a blue belt, he's a black belt in other MA's.
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I started fighting Balck Belts as a Blue Belt. I am currently a Purple Belt & have over 75 students that are purple belts & below. I think if you can learn more from some one than anywhere else & you like the training go for it. A good blue belt should be able to beat any Tae Kwon Do 1 stripe Black Belt, same with Judo Black Belts & many others.
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My BJJ instructor is only a purple belt...trains under Carlson Gracie.
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GRACIEAUSTIN, you mean you actually found some TKD BB that would fight? What exactly happened?
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Question GRACIEAUSTIN . . . where are you?

Sorry to change the subject, but where in Austin are you, GRACIEAUSTIN? I'm going to UT next year, and I want to continue BJJ. Are you near UT, or do you know someone who is?
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