Got my blue belt after 1 year, hard work pays off

Nice try, go reaf ibjjf guide minimum is 1 year

>ibjjf
how retarded are you?

>ibjjf guide
2 years
ibjjf.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-IBJJF-Graduation-System-Poster.pdf

Its not about talent, those are minimum times as a practitioner. Because martial arts are not only about having perfect technique (which is impossible to achieve in a week) or whatever enthusiasm, it is a lifestyle. Originally only white and black belt existed, and black was reserved for teachers. Colors were introduced as martial arts spread to the western world and people wanted some recognition to be better than the newcomers.

In USA people nowadays go to dojos to get black belt, not to actually learn the martial art. So they can go around telling people they have a black belt in Karate. Thats why there are a lot more McDojos in the US than other places.

I think it's brilliant.

Good job and good luck OP. One year sounds pretty fast to me and a lot of other people, but hey maybe you're a natural. Have you competed at all? That's where you'll know what belt you really are.

>tfw my former instructor used to insist on strict promoting but started promoting people from blue to purple who have literally never competed before
>tfw promoted a woman who had only been training for 6 or 7 months to blue belt
I dipped out of that shit soon after.

I'm coming up on year 3 this summer, train regularly (anywhere from 2-5 days a week depending on work) and still working to get my blue.

youtube.com/watch?v=BOarzp3Rm8Y

One year to blue belt is doable for a start beginner if you are moderately fit, and train with decent intensity 3-4 times every week. If you come into bjj with a wrestling or judo background, you can get your blue belt in a ridiculously short amount of time.

They must stay at a blue belt for a minimum of two years you bumbling meathead

I don't think the jump from white to blue needs to take a long time. sounds like an extreme example and, in his shoes, I would ask Helio Gracie himself what was up. A black belt in BJJ doesn't mean it has to take 15 years to be good.

If you train 3 days a week for a year in a school under a brown or black belt, then there is no reason that 1 year isn't enough to get to a blue belt. Do you really NEED to hold someone from sparring (

If this is a legit post, great job op. BJJ is definitely my favorite martial art I've trained. Hoping to get back into it now that I've lifted for a couple years.

>Diaz
sure thing, OP

>1 year
mcdojo as fuck, 2 years minimum

What is the point of doing martial arts? You'll look better and be stronger if you just lift

not everything is about looking better you vain fuckhead

what the fuck is this a sport?

no way

ninja kung fu also known as ka-ra-te

They're doing more harm than good, I've taken ITF taekwon-do for around 3 years and I just got my blue belt, wtf man

One day you'll learn that your meme fighting style is just that. Memes. A gigga-nigga will approach you at night and afterwards you'll be forced to re-evaluate things.

Either practice boxing + grappling + lifting or buy a gun. Everything else is trash for self defense.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS

youtube.com/watch?v=RqjXJwQPhGo&t=15s

>implying ITF is shit

guys how do you know if your going to a mcdojo? i feel all dojos with belts are mcdojos

i've been training with them for a year and won my first pro mma match 2 weeks ago

2012 california team champion

we train almost every day, not just bjj though

taekwondo is the worst though because its meant for hand to horse combat so its useless as fuck

It is Tae-queer-do is a joke of a martial art. they literally fail in every aspect. kicking a board of a 10 ft ladder? cool. Try kick a muay thai fighter in the legs and youll soon find out who the better fighter is. btw this isnt sport bashing either, ive trained both tkd, ninjutsu and MT and tkd was a joke in comparison.

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post face with timestamp right now then

>Do you really NEED to hold someone from sparring (

Our teachers (60yo and a 40yo) makes us fight in local tournaments and MMA matches before they considers granting belts.

You don't have to actually win them, its just like he want to see what you've learned?

Is this okay or should I find a new teacher?

this is fucking good.

dont be a faggot.

I sparred some skinny dude for the first time. His punches felt like a was getting punch by sledge hammers

where do you find a dojo like this? too many pay to graduate style dojos around

This is why we needed Mas Oyama.

that's cause speed = power

something something mass velocity force

basically being big doesn't mean shit if the other dude compensates with speed

This guy is OP from that martial arts thread

it's a business
they want your money, not to teach you to be black-belt senpai

mcdojo black blet vs mma fighter
youtube.com/watch?v=i8tVTuNZ3Zw

Fuck man, he looks like he immediately regretted slamming him like that.
I imagine that feels the same as punching a retard.

there's an interview of him talking about the event, he said the mcdojo dude was a bit weird.

also said that he came up to him wearing cowboy boots and hat and asked him for a rematch

And he declined for the dude's own good, right?

Can't remember, but the mjdojo dude had like a broken back or something.

He probably had brain damage too if he wanted a rematch.

Because having a huge bench/squat doesn't mean shit if you don't know how to fight.

did the guy die? shouldn't he have known how to at least land the body slam? that was the first thing i learned in judo (how to land)

Wrestling 101. Never reach behind you.

He told him something like "when I get better we'll fight again, right?"

Jesus, does this dude think that life is just one long episode of Naruto where he can just get his shit slapped on multiple planes of existence and have a comeback arc?

Complete bullshit BJ Penn got his black belt in 3 years and considered one of the best Bjj players, Geo Martinez got his black belt in 5 years from Edgy brah guarantee these guys weren't even blue for a month, some people are just naturally talented

no, but he didnt fight again.

maybe, but then they'd have to have trained pretty much non stop, with constant 1 on 1 instruction, or they'd need to have a whole lot of experience before joining a bjj gym

Talent helps but it also helps if your life revolves around Martial arts and you do it every day you're going to progress quickly.

Also, it depends on the practitioner they are under. Some will see how they are progressing, how they do in tournaments, and promote them. Some will see a guy come from another gym with a lower belt and promote him just based on what they see in practice. Helps even more if their teacher is qualified to give belts so they don't have to find a black belt to promote them.

This is good.

Same here man. Trained 4-5 times a week and sometimes more, went to tournies and won most of my matches even though often I was having to fight higher ranked belts and would get bumped up to a higher weight class than I fit in. People at my gym started to notice that some of the people who were carrying their weight weren't getting promoted at all anymore, including myself. It seemed like the instructor was starting to promote people for appearances (giving a female with less than a year of training a blue belt for example) and keeping his regular students at lower belts to sandbag or something. I hope I can find somewhere good to train someday.