5 ways to make your BJJ Blue Belt Undeniable!
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- These 5 criteria are what I look for in a white belt when thinking if they're ready to be promoted or not. If you're a white belt with these skills, I'm fairly confident that your blue belt would be undeniable at any gym you go to.
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Enjoy!
0:00 Intro
0:50 1 - Be a good training partner
3:15 2 - Train Consistently
5:55 3 - Offense and Defense from major positions and submissions
10:20 4 - Be able to control a larger, unskilled partner
12:35 5 - Start to "catch" some blue belts
14:05 Closing
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I am 6’7” 315 lbs, I guess I am going to have to go find a bear in the woods to roll with for a bigger stronger opponent.
There's always someone out there!
Funny, I'm about 185-190 lbs, always looking to scrap with bigger dudes because I want that grind and physical measure.
I hope you find your bear!
Maybe, on your side of the spectrum it's learning how to really focus on technical and not allowing strength/weight to be your handicap.
Jiu jitsu is an amazing means to measure ourselves by.
Good luck friend.
I'm 5'7" 165. I got you homie 😂
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Assuming you’re an athletic 190 you are a bigger guy bro
@Booker fair point brother, but, telling ya the 200+ lbs guys especially more skilled, I feel like the smaller guy when they've got 10-40lbs on me too.
When I do go with lighter training partners, I definitely try to focus on technique and not let any strength be my crutch.
This is one of the most helpful videos I've seen in helping me build my game. Thank you.
1.5 yr white belt no gi. Just commenting to say if you are a white belt and you are super lost with all the jiu jitsu vocabular, I think this video (especially tip #3) is a golden cheat sheet for what you can try to learn to start making sense of this beautiful game. Cheers.
Thank you! This is such good feedback of how to guide the rest of this mini-series. Goodluck and keep it up!
Hey Coach, i just discovered your content tonight and im excited, like finding a new book you cant wait to read. thy way your narrating rolls, very rare in content and i love it. also you number your episodes, something else you dont see much. im looking forward to learning from you, thanks Coach Nick!
Hey Bryce, thanks so much man! That means so much to me. I've been plugging away for the last year posting videos 6 days a week, and recently been taking a bit more time to work on the editing process of videos so my posting schedule has slowed down to 2-5 videos per week. However, I've learned a ton, much like the process of BJJ. Please feel free to reach out and submit some of your own rounds, I'd love to break them down on the Stop, Talk, and Roll! show!
You are definitely On point
I just got my blue belt
The test got me by surprise because I thought I wasn’t wash and sucked
Currently I am 44 years old and yes got addicted to jiu-jitsu
I definitely have a list of things to work on from my test I wish someone told me sooner
Thanks
Congrats man! I'm working on the purple belt one now and hopefully it'll be out in the next few weeks. Hopefully that'll give you some time to get ready! :P
Love it…. Good pointers… you called me out a few times. Thanks.
Thank you, coach! Very well explained what it takes, just started my path!
Awesome video Professor Nick , thank you. Oss
Thank you!
Love me some Nick Coletti content
Trying bro. We need you back on the show soon!
You deserve every like you get, Sir!
Thank you!
Remember, jits is a hobby, have fun. I’ve been a bb for four years and just realized that I’m in this for the long haul. If I don’t have fun I’m not going to continue.
David, I couldn't have said it better myself. I think some people genuinely have fun setting goals from themselves and progressing through them in a step-by-step manner. I hope this video series provides some of those attainable goals and makes jiujitsu progress a bit more easier to breakdown. I always have a goal when I walk in the gym, but sometimes that goal is simply to just walk in there open minded, roll around and have fun!
Great video Nick.
Thanks, Paul!
Nice video! Helpful concepts and nice example videos. Keep up the good work and I think many more subscribers are heading your way :)
Thank you!
i recently had an epiphany while rolling with big strong dudes who are 60 pounds + over me. i need to attack with my legs against their upper body.
it was impossible to go toe to toe, my upper body vs their upper and/or lower were guaranteed to fail.
the only way i can deal with strong big opponent was to use my legs against their upper body.
This is 100% true. If you watch my Stop, Talk, and Roll! videos, I mention this imbalance between upper and lower body ALL the time. You need to use your legs to do the heavy lifting.
There's a really lightweight guy who trained for years with John Danaher. Saw him on here with a bunch of courses. He uses butterfly guard a lot.
great vid
Thanks man! I hope you check out and enjoy some of my other videos as well! I have a whole series called Stop, Talk, and Roll! where I break down jiujitsu rounds.
Been at blue for a year and agree with all this.
Nick Coletti?? SAAHHH DUUDE
Man, I had a bunch of 6th graders who said that to me for a whole year before I finally figured out what that meant. I just thought it was new lingo and would say it back to them too. Was quite hilarious when I finally asked about it.
I got a blue belt in 2018. 5 years later still a blue belt with no stripes. Problem is I moved to the middle of nowhere and the closest gym is 30 miles away and I work the night shift at my job and also have a baby now. I know I earned the rank just purely from time on the mat but I wonder if I should even consider myself my current rank anymore because of my lack of consistent training in the last 5 years. It’s hard to tell if I’ve regressed at all cause I’m sure I have, but the few times I have rolled since basically quitting in 2019 it seems a little like riding a bike. A lot still seems to be there but I just feel rusty when drilling and stuff.
Go back dude as a blue belt. I am in same bought I went back after 5 year hiatus due to work. I joined a new gym since I moved hour away from my orginal gym. Everything comes back slowly.
Agree100%🎉
Great advice for beginners!
Thank you for the feedback! I hope you enjoy the content here.
My gym is a little more stingy giving out blue belts, I don’t really mind. Usually blue belts from our gym can hold their own against blues from others. I think it’s always good to be underrated. I’m just going to keep showing up.
I'm all about delaying belts. I don't want jiujitsu to go the way of many other martial arts where it's way to easy to get a black belt. All it means is you're that much more of a good representative when you get your belt. Keep training!
I am a 4 year white belt, thinking of quitting
@@KS-jl4zn why? Because you're still a white belt?
@@KS-jl4zn how? Wtf
@@KS-jl4zn can you give me your list of reasons? Nobody can stop you but yourself. You just have to find a few reasons to stay.
My bjj school seems to place more emphasis on competition intensity than technique - i feel I'm not being shown enough techniques to improve skill wise . Is this correct or am I in the right place & should just keep knuckling down to improve? The instructor wins alot of competitons apparently. I'm getting old so don't have the same strength as most of the guys although I'm pretty tough & enjoy the roll its the skill aspect? Late stage white belt - about 2 half years ...changed from straight bjj school to mma about 16 months ago
Consider the following: there are lots of different kinds of fitness gyms out there. There's your regular low-cost gyms like Crunch or Planet Fitness that work fine for some people. Then you have gyms like CrossFit or similar "WOD" style, class gyms. You have powerlifting gyms, body building gyms, "influencer" gyms, parkour, gymnastics, and so much more. All of these gyms can look vastly different. However, at the end of the day, they are all variations of places where you go to work out and be healthy. While many argue which one is best, ultimately, that decision and opinion is up to the individual.
The reason I bring that analogy up is because jiujitsu gyms are no different. You have gyms that are heavily focused on competition, such as yours. You have gyms that are focused on self-defense, "family" style gyms, MMA style gyms, and so on and so forth. Within those gyms, you are going to have wildly different teaching styles and abilities. Just in my own gym at Greenwich Jiujitsu, we have 5 different instructors who all have vastly different styles in terms of both our grappling and our teaching approaches.
If you feel you aren't getting the appropriate instruction, visit another gym and see what they have to offer. Maybe you find that you like the instruction of another gym, or even a specific instructor, and want to attend their classes. Maybe you retain a membership at your current gym to get in those tough rounds that are fun to do.
Ultimately, the best gym for you is the gym that you'll show up to. This is another topic that is pretty complicated, so I think I'll make a video about this as well and try to give you a more nuanced answer as I have a lot of opinions on this. I think you should find out what your goals are, try different gyms, and then pick the gym that you enjoy the most and aligns with your goals the most.
Can you make the same type of video for purple belt
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I feel like I can hang with blue belts consistently and from time to time I submit them. I also honestly feel like I’m confortable in most general positions and some of the not so general(ashigarami, de la riva, reverse de la riva, butterfly guard, k-guard). The problem is that I am only one month in, am I truly ready for that blue belt?
Ps: I should add that most of the time I am stronger than my opponent or at least same strength. Furthermore I come from an athletic background.
For you, I'd recommend you go compete. Go win some white belt tournaments and see from there. Also, when you say an athletic background, do you have previous grappling experience? That all comes into play. At the end of the day, this video was how to make your blue belt undeniable. It doesn't necessarily guarantee you get the belt, only that it's pretty obvious you're at that level.
@StopTalkandRoll i agree with this 100%. My progression was much faster than most because i played linebacker through college. Im 30 and only 10 months into jujitsu but have 1 bronze, 4 golds, and 4 stripes on my white belt. I havent been finished by anyone but Brown and Black belts in several months. Its just the way it is sometimes. Compete as much as you can at white belt, its better to be the best white belt than the worst blue belt.
An opinion would be great! My professor has me constantly rolling with our purple/brown belt women and professor has rolls with me that are 2 rounds long and told me “that’s jiujitsu!” He told me he’s impressed with me. I’m 29 an athlete my whole life (no grappling experience just been around it for years) I’ve gotten double gold at all 4 competitions all by submission but one by points 15-2 my last sub was a go go plata. I’ve trained for almost 1 year now and I’m a white belt but husbands a purple belt so I get some insight from
Him as well. I feel like I’m ok with being a white belt as long as possible I’m comfortable here but blue belt seems like a big step! I train 4 days a week including an open mat but only one of those is a Gi class.
Does training less Gi influence promotions? I’m worried about that.
Also I have one stripe, we had promotions 6 months ago and are due for another this month.
That's awesome! Competing is great, and I feel that if you're doing well in competition, that speaks way louder than any other metric. You're putting yourself out there, testing yourself, and finding success. I would imagine a blue belt would be in your future. Keep up the work!
Training gi less could slow promotions as there's simply less chances to upgrade your belt in class. A lot of women feel that there are many gyms/coaches who promote women more slowly as well.
Do you or can you do a similar vid on purple belt? Got mine recently and got some imposter syndrome going on!
Working on it!
ua-cam.com/video/G410mi8WdqA/v-deo.html - its here and your request is featured! Big shout out!
5:04 this happened to me i was going ham when i first got into it... i didnt expect a belt but i was pretty bummed life hit me and i couldnt keep training i was doing so good from what my coaches would say i got striped so fast and was subbing all the other white belts... a year later joined a new gym and have been doin awesome again putting in the work still remember how to roll getting subs on whites and surviving with the uppers. I think it will be worth it if the promotion gets drawn out i rather be a deadly white belt than a blue thats barely surviving.
Deadly white belts ? Interesting. The truth is most deadly white belts are guys whose grappling background are like former sambist champion, or 20 year judokas, or freestyle wrestling D1. Other than that, your instructors wont allow you to sandbag his white belts, it will hurt his academy.
@@tededo Well guess you're right, i have 0 wrestling.. grappling background havent ever even been in a fight or scramble. Im pretty tall lanky 6'2 175 but overall pretty athletic. Im not even sure how theyd go by it.. i was rollikg the other week for my first week free trial and i landed a bow n arrow on a purple and the other whites i was locking out with holding guard and having them fall into my traingles and arm bars. I am curious how they will grade me since i told them i trained for 6 months. i even ripped the stripes off my belt since its a fresh start at a new gym.
Oh dude you're from CT! I'm a New Haven guy
Awesome! Where do you train at?
@@StopTalkandRoll black wolf martial arts on the orange/west haven line. Awesome gym.
I'm still a white belt and I've been rolling since 2018. I was super consistent in 2019 but quarantine and lockdowns smoked my progress for two years. 2022 I had to stop for school priorities, 2023 I've been rolling 3 times a week consistently. I also changed gyms in 2020 due to moving...Ive been a 3 stripe white belt for 4 years now...that blue feels so far away...
Hey Joey, I hear you. While I wasn't a white belt for super long, I was at it longer than the average. At the end of the day, all that means is when you get your blue belt you'll be that much better. Also, the sentiment in the video is about what someone who is a blue belt looks like. If you can do all the criteria I laid out and more, you're a blue belt in my opinion.
@@StopTalkandRoll I appreciate that coach. Yes I can work from all guards and positions with at least one technique on the defensive and offensive. I train with blues and purples and have won first place in my most recent tournament. I have a decent takedown game being able to catch coloured belts in double legs and drop seo nagi throws, I think my instructor is just waiting for more tournament proof at this point...all my homies at my old gym are decorated blues. I'll shoot a comment when i actually get my blue just cause 🟦🟦🟦◼️◼️🟦
@@joeytan7986 Keep it up man! As long as you're better than you were the day before, you're getting there.
Its crazy because I can do every single one of these things because I did 6 years of Judo but my Coach wont grade me to blue belt. Like they are so uncultured in knowing that Judo has all of theese techniques and more by having standup. I'm not bothered by it because I'm just there to have fun and get better at grappling but I just find it weird how they gatekeep ranks sometimes
What does your coach say? They may have a different set of skills they want you to have before you attain the rank. The point of the video too was that if you possess these 5 skills, you're essentially a "blue belt" rank regardless of the color of the belt around your waist. One of the things that's not on here is simply trust. I moved gyms a few times and the coach needs to trust you a bit before promoting you. How long have you been at your current gym?
@@StopTalkandRoll Over 7 months. I train 6 times a week and there isn't anyone at the club I haven't subbed at least once or twice. I feel like my Ne-waza has improved alot just by focusing on it more in NOGI and GI but my Standing techniques have suffered for it and I'm not as sharp as I was at throws as when I was doing Judo
Ok you said you can beat everybody.
Take this approach.
You are VS yourself in a grappling MATCHUP.
How would you beat yourself.
Stop......come on be honest.
What game plan would you use to defeat yourself.?
Now you know what you need to work on.
I had the reverse trained Brazilian jiu jitsu for 6 years im a blue belt.
I trained judo for 6 months before I went to Brazil to train for two and a half months.
I could tap everybody in Ne-waza at the judo club.
But i went with ae open mind and they helped me with my stand up.
Maybe work on being a good training partner it will open doors for you.
Well... If you think that you subbing everyone in the club means a shit your blue belt is still quite far away not because your lack of skill just because your attitude.
Not sure how you graduated from college if you were training 5 days a week.
Figure this, I got a masters while having a full time job, teaching jiujitsu 3 times a week, and training 5 times a week!
I'm a black belt in being a spaz
The art of choas.
One day il get my first stripe lol
That'll come quicker than you think! My gym doesn't do stripes, but I got stripes coming up as well. I actually got 2 at once, so who knows!
@@StopTalkandRoll i got 2 at the same time lost my belt and was scared to ask for stripes back. then i switched gyms after a year of not training got 1 stripe, then 2 at the same time, then 1 recently. im pretty sure im getting promoted in 17 days lol cuz thats when we have promotions
@Beach Wave congratulations! When I was a purple belt, I moved go Hawaii when I had 4 stripes. Due to life and not having a gym, I only trained inconsistently for about a year and a half. Then, a gym rolled into town which was great. My belt was so beat up that my stripes had fallen off and I didn't replace them. However, the tape residue had burned into my bar. My professor (Noa, currently of Legend Jiujitsu in Seattle) told me to put them back on when he saw my belt. If you earn your belt or stripes, you've earned them. I've replaced the stripes on my purple belt several times until I got my brown belt, so don't feel bad if you're in that position.
I don't think I've ever had someone be excited to roll with me 😢
Kev, I always loved rolling with you!
@@StopTalkandRoll 🤣
Purple belt video? 👀
I'm planning it out! It's a little more complicated and I'm trying to take my initial brainstorm of 20 different criteria down to 5-8, as well as figure out how to make it enjoyable. But it's on the way! I have a different video I've been working on that should be dropping any day now, and then it's all hands on purple belt deck.
What’s a spaz?
Some who acts erratically and chaotically and wasting a ton of energy.
Where are you located?
CT!
Could you do one for Purple 🤙🏽🥋
Plan is to release it on Saturday!
ua-cam.com/video/G410mi8WdqA/v-deo.html the wait is over!
Seems like a lot for a blue belt?
The modern day BJJ blue belt standards are beginning to be out of this world. The demand is ever increasing du to the fact that lot of white belts getting promoted, still keep their toxic habits, which makes it bad blue belters. The BJJ being watered down, forces instructors to jack the standard before BJJ gets the backburner of most martial arts.
@@tededo but a lot of times that has to do with professors wanting to win comps at blue belt level. In Mastering JuJitsu, Danaher and Renzo say a blue belt needs like two guard passes, 1 takedown, escapes from common positions, and two submissions from guard and mount.
Sooo basically get better... Thanks for the advice...lol
My biggest frustration with jiu jitsu is the inconsistency with promotion criteria. Everyone says “the belts don’t matter” and I get the idea behind the sentiment but I think there is a lot of dishonesty in that cause of course the belts matter. If they truly didn’t matter the standard would simply be how long has a person trained or hours on the mat. The truth of the matter is the art itself has a huge flaw in its belt promotion structure and standards. There isn’t really one and because of that some coaches abuse that for their own financial gain. I’ve seen guys that only hand out stripes or belts at their paid seminars, if you’re not there you don’t get it.
I have seen the practice of seminar promotions as well. While I don't agree with it, I'm also not a massive instructor with affiliations all over, so I don't really have the experience to talk about it one way or the other.
What I will say that the sentiment about belts not mattering is not a black and white discussion. I may make a video be a little more detailed about this topic, but I think it boils down to the fact that if you're a white belt right now and I give you a blue belt an hour from now, nothing is going to fundamentally change in your game within an hour. However, I would be a liar if I didn't say when I got that blue belt wrapped around my waist was an amazing feeling. I think the purpose of the statement is that people should pursue improvement rather than a piece of cloth.
I'll make a video about this to get some of the more nuanced points across. I hope you're enjoying the content, and thank you for the thought-provoking comment!
@@StopTalkandRoll to be clear my comment wasn’t directed at you or this particular video in any way, the content of it was perfectly fine. It’s simply that anytime I see or hear someone say “this is how to get X promotion” I know the reality is it’s all subjective to the professor so it brings up that frustration of the promotions system….or lack thereof I should say.
Again, none of this is directed at you and actually the more people talk about it the more attention it gets on the issue. Cheers to you my friend.
@@The_Brew_Dog I hear you, and I appreciate your thoughts on the matter. It's definitely super subjective at the end of the day.
Belt bring dollars...$$$ 😅
12 months is way too little time for a blue belt
There's a lot to consider in that statement. Someone who's never participated in physical activity in their life? Yeah, sure. Someone who's a D1 wrestler/Judo champion and moving onto jiujitsu for the first time? I'd say 12 months is way more than enough. How often are they training? Once a week? 6 times a week? There are a lot of factors. In my experience from what I've seen from training for the last 14 years, 12 months is about the average time I've seen people go from white to blue. I took 18 months. I've seen it in as little as 5. Just depends on the person and their experience.
Sounds more like a timebased promotion standard to me.@@StopTalkandRoll
@@tededo Quite the opposite lol caring about a minimum time requirement seems more like a timebased promotion to me lmao
Here's the truth: BJJ belts are absolutely horse crap. There I said it. As a bjj practitioner of 11 years myself. The belt system is so heavily bias and subjective that no matter what anyone says, there is no real criteria to grade in BJJ other than if your narcissistic coach believes you're worthy of it. This sounds harsh but it's also true. BJJ belts are NOT ranks. Rather they're awards. You get awarded a belt for doing a bunch of stuff that someone else thought was a good job. Like, imagine going to University and being told; "Yeah just keep studying, show up to class and when you're ready we'll give you your degree"
There's no fair opportunity to "attempt to graduate" in bjj.
So, if you're a white belt looking to get your blue belt my advice is... train to be better than you were last week. It's you against you. That's really all you need to progress in whatever shape or form that may be.
I hear you! I made another video in this playlist about my thoughts on belts and it's not so black and white. I think in regards to skill, which is what they SHOULD be based on, you're absolutely right. However, I think when you consider finances, they definitely matter. Ultimately, they matter if you care about them. If you don't, then just train!
I train bjj for like 2.5 years and quite consistently. The coaches are a father and his son. There is not a single logic with how they promote ppl, just random and some favoritism. I used to think belts are not important, but i cant help that it bothers me a lot now for 2 reasons: im mauling quite some blue belts (in a respecting way) and the classes are divided into 2; one for white belts and the other half for color belts. I have to stick to the white belts and it disturbs me that i'm often paired with absolute beginners, not even getting to practicing a technique... which feels for me that this hampers my development. Im really considering leaving the gym at this point.
Is this a big gym?
Just focus on getting good and the belts will come. You were once that absolute beginner and more skilled training partners had to help you get you up to speed. Now you get to pay that forward to the newer people.
Just keep training and stop fretting over belts. They come.
I'm going to make another video explaining the "Undeniable" series in more detail, but that is somewhat the purpose of the video. The idea of being "undeniable" is that it doesn't really matter what color belt is around someone's waist. If you can do the things I mentioned in the video, in my opinion, you are a blue belt. The purpose of this video is to help you progress from white to blue in the sense of having goals along the way. Each element builds on each other. You can't really learn anything until you're a good training partner and train consistently.
And another video idea as I'm writing this! I'll post about my journey. I was delayed on every belt because of life, so I was very much in the "they come" category. I think it's much better to wait a few months/years for a belt than get it prematurely. I hope you're enjoying the content, Daniel!
I am sorry BUT = promoting not being a spaz and a good training partner falls flat whenever you join a competition for the first time and you get mauled by the other opponent, expecting him to go easy on you. Also, i dont mean to be a dick but i cant see how you do Grapplling and JJ and still out of shape. If youre just rolling on the mat for the sake of it, youre doing it wrong.
I have grown a lot in my understanding of jiujitsu and what the belts mean. I have to say that I disagree with some of what I said in this video. I will be remaking this video soon. I would still stand behind my comments about being a good training partner, but I would alter it to reflect this: Move and act with intention. Defining words and ideas is important. I think you and I have a fundamentally different idea of what a good training partner is. I by no means equate being a good training partner with going easy or not rolling. It means you take care of your training partners, because if they're hurt, you don't get to train.
I disagree.
What do you think then?
dOnT uSe YoUr StReNgTh uR dOiNg It wRoNg
I'm not sure if I said that! I hope I didn't convey that one way or the other. I think you should use all of your attributes! We don't vilify speed or flexibility, why should we vilify strength and power?
Do purple bro plsss
Working on it!
bro its hereeee ua-cam.com/video/G410mi8WdqA/v-deo.html
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