Understanding Rank in Brazilian Jiu-Jutsu

**daGorilla** · Posted On: 7/27/2012 10:05am

You know, for kids.

http://gaming-daddy.com/2012/07/26/u...ian-jiu-jitsu/

:)

**lordbd** · Posted On: 7/27/2012 5:10pm

Hmmm.... I feel like I fit into the white belt category fo sho. If I attended 3 BJJ classes 18 months or so ago, do I count as a white belt still?

**The Question** · Posted On: 7/27/2012 5:27pm

Fucking hell, my BJJ experience is limited to mostly owning white belts in no gi, but I appreciate that **** as hilarious.

***jnp*** · Posted On: 7/27/2012 10:54pm

It's pretty accurate until brown belt. The caption for brown should read, "You capitalize on stupid stuff better.", and the black belt part should read, "You are able to make the lower ranks do stupid stuff.".

The rest is BJJ nutrider BS.

**daGorilla** · Posted On: 7/28/2012 12:43pm

Originally Posted by jnp

It's pretty accurate until brown belt. The caption for brown should read, "You capitalize on stupid stuff better.", and the black belt part should read, "You are able to make the lower ranks do stupid stuff.".

The rest is BJJ nutrider BS.

It is merely for fun. No nutriding. Promise. :)

And I guess it depends on the rank advancement practices at any particular school. This was probably written more to the "old school" where the average is about 10 years from white (no prior XP) to black belt.

But -- for good or ill -- there are a lot of schools now with more aggressive advancement.