greetings,

i know many people here train judo and bjj, so what rank are you and under whom did you receive the rank? i'll go first...

i am a bjj blue from mr. roy harris in san diego. i am training hard for my purple, and will test sometime in early 2008...

take care...JT

I'm a white belt. And will stay a white belt until I actually start training somewhere full-time.

White belt, but I compete in blue belt division. I dont train BJJ but my subgrappling experience obligated me to go to blue belt division.

i am a white belt. I have never really trained consistently at one school. I will get my schedule together soon. I have no intention of settling for anything less than a purple in a few years.

Same here. Injuries and TDY's put a damper on my move to blue. Someday I'll be up for ti again, but for now my new found love is Judo.

I have been to exactly one BJJ class, so I guess that makes me an official white belt. :)

Same as what most everyone else said. Never trained BJJ formally enough to get promoted.

You probably have blue belt level skills if I were to guess considering your success at the grappling tournament you went to a few months ago.

I did BJJ for about 6 weeks one college break. I got 1 stripe on my white belt.

I'm a blue belt in Gracie Jiu jitsu under Relson Gracie. I've been training at his academy for about five and a half years now. I've been cross training in Judo for longer than I've been involved in BJJ though.

I'm a BJJ Brown Belt - I've have been training BJJ primarily and solidly since '99 (or was it '98, I can't remember!).

I am a 4 stripe white belt under Pedro Sauer and will be testing for my blue belt on September 15th. Wish me luck!!

I have no BJJ belt, so my pants keep falling down.....

3-Stripe Blue in the Saulo Ribeiro JJ Association.

2 stripe white! Triforce BJJ Japan.

I am a 10.5 stripe brown belt under Cesar Salad Gracie

I will be grading for my black belt once i have given the bjj association about $30,000 in dues...which took about 10 years :)

Yes, it looks fun to troll a BJJ thread right?

pass me a needle and thread, my sides are splitting

as it happens it costs me more to grade in judo than it does in BJJ

Easy fellas...i don't troll often..i was just in a funny mood last night...if it makes u feel better i can msg the mods and get them to delete it...

I'm a blue belt under Phil and Rick Migliarese. Balance studios in Philly.

I was a 3rd stripe purple belt (6 months away from my brown according to my instructor at the time).

But This was in april 2006. Me and others advanced students had a problem with the guy and left. Kept training together though and in judo too. So I like to think I can stand my ground against a bjj brown belt. Who knows. We will see next time I roll with one !


And its funny how the people who bit-tch against bjj on this forum are not answering that thread so far....

White Belt

Trained 3 years with an affiliate club of Rodrigo Vahgi (never thought to test)

Just joined BB Mauricio Zingano's club and having a great time :)

Purple Belt after approx. 6 years of training. Just recieved it a few weeks ago. Still so much more to learn.

I'm a blue belt.

One stripe white...

I am an ADVANCED 2 STRIPE WHITEBELT.

I will be a white belt on Friday - thats when I start my first class, really looking forward to it.

I'm a BJJ Brown Belt under Cassio Werneck. I've been training BJJ since June 2000.

Just started BJJ last week so I am an official white belt. I am looking at enrolling my kids into the program but plan on checking out how safe the program/insturciton is.

I'm a purple belt / Gracie Barra , got it last year without a formal bjj trainng though since my blue belt /nova uniao
I practiced only judo in between and did a few bjj seminars , so it is basicaly newaza oriented

My belt has cool little bjj patches on it, given from those dime-a-dozen, overcharging bjj instructors.

I`m a purple belt in BJJ under Luiz Paulo, in Niteói, Rio de Janeiro.

I did also some trainning in Rolker Gracie academy in Rio de Janeiro downtown.

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My belt has cool little bjj patches on it, given from those dime-a-dozen, overcharging bjj instructors.

You are so funny.- not.

I got my blue belt from Romero Jacre Calvicanti within two months, but thats because I had prior experince in judo.Ill be getting my purple from from Roberto Traven one day if I keep going constintly.

I wasn't trying to be. I just really think the bjj culture is funny, that's all.

Off White Belt with Several Off White Stripes. LOL, I really need to work on that Blue Belt.

Train Hard, Stay Safe
Good Luck

I will be white belt next month thats when i will start in a BJJ school here in Greece,looking forward to it

Black Belt under Marcos Barbosa

I am a purple belt, but I started out in Judo.

-R

blue belt one stripe unde sergio silva oakalnd, ca

i joined the navy which threw a wrench in my training........

didnt care about getting a purple till i took leave and the guys who got their blue the same time as i did all have their purps... geesh

I got my blue belt 2 years ago, a bunch of BJJ promotion is about money IMHO and I don't have it. What happens usually to me is like I fought the stat champ I qualified to the national champs in Brazil (they call it world champ I dunno why...) as I was a judo black belt they promoted me cause it would be "unfair" if I fight whit the white belts, and they also placed me on the upper weight class still I got a second place and qualified 3 fights wont with basic morotegaris and uchi-matas.

i dont think judo black belts should be fighting bjj white belts at all... no matter the dan...

Blue belt under Rickson Gracie.

Update for me, one stripe Blue under Mauricio Zingano

Agree with Fozzit but that is a mixed bag..... I'm a Judoka first but not all BB's have the same skill sets. but that topic has been done before.

M2CFWIW

Purple

I am a very slow learner in both BJJ and judo. Many of the guys that I started off with in BJJ are black belts and medaling at the Mundial and the Pan Am.

purple under John Machado....to lazy to fly out to cali and test for my brown...maybe in sept i will take the leap.

I'm a white belt at this school: http://tucsonbrazilianjj.com

We don't get stripes at my school. So I have a nice, plain white belt, and I can bleach it all I want! (yes I love bleaching things... I've been trying to get out of this habit as it makes my clothes disintegrate faster )

I started in Feb. 2006, but I didn't start the gi class until May 2006, and I've taken a month off here and a few weeks off there, so not entirely consistent.

You and me both. I hope Matt doesn't laugh too hard when he watches me grapple on wednesday

Black Belt under Ricardo Liborio
Taught all the way up to brown by Lloyd Irvin.

I was a 3 stripe white belt in late 2004 at the local Gracie Barra, then I took a three year break during which I rolled pretty often, at least 2-3 times a week. Upon my return to the same academy about a year ago, I started fresh and haven't been given a stripe yet. Purple belt seems to be my competitive limit, where I have good matches with high blue belts but get soundly defeated/dominated by purple belts.

Judo has definitely hampered my progress in Bjj, by taking two days away my bjj studies and adjusted my newaza focus/attitude.

As far as grading up in my academy, I think it has more do with filling up your attendance card then it is about technical knowledge or proficiency. I suspect it will take about another 1.5 years to fill up my white belt card maybe a little less if I pick up an extra day here and there. No worries though, as long as I'm still learning.