White Belt to Black Belt: Listen to Your Coaches Episode 34

This week the coaches discuss the long journey of promotions from white belt all the way up to black belt in Jiu Jitsu. How does age or athleticism affect getting your next belt? How much time do you spend at each belt? How does one person not getting promoted affect other people’s promotions? Listen in to learn all that and more!
0:00 Intro
1:40 Stripes and blue belts
12:28 How people are promoted differently
17:51 Purple belt wisdom
19:21 D1 wrestlers
22:15 Criteria for purple belt
24:43 IBJJF timelines
27:35 Becoming an older purple belt
28:51 Consistency
30:13 How does Will get his purple belt?
35:07 Returning to BJJ after an injury
39:08 Purple to brown belt
43:35 What makes a BJJ blackbelt
50:33 “It’s not yours, it’s everybody’s black belt”
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