So true. I will never forget when I saw a world class purple belt destroy a decent black belt at my gym. Makes a bit of a mockery of the belt system tbh.

Agree. That’s why this is a silly title…

Absolute facts Josh is a well established blue belt he puts some real time and effort into his craft can’t wait to see what the future keeps holding for him

@@nickessex555 thats only true for watered down belts at shitty schools, we have no regular or competition belts, you dont get even a blue belt unless you can catch purples on a regular basis, our blackbelts hang with adcc champs.

@@timothycarey3883 that makes entirely no sense. That’s just sandbagging/holding students back. It’s what poor instructors do to make their schools seem like better training.

Seriously, I’m like how the hell has he not been promoted yet lol

Only if you care about ego. Black belts get tapped all the time by blues and purples in training and competition. One match doesn't define your skillset. And Josh is no ordinary blue. Good stuff Josh.

Not really, points are arbitrary and meaningless The sub is the only legitimate test of skill jiujitsu and its clear how this would've ended if taken to its conclusion

@@nathanramirez3989 In most schools you need to be a Blue belt for at least 2 years before getting promoted. (& I think he was only promoted recently)

@@kinderadenauers9724 yeah I thought he was only promoted recently but at the end of the video he said he's been a blue belt for 2 years

I'm purple and this is insane to watch! High level skills there.

What's a hobbyist belt ? When i did judo in my small town you had to take points in departemental/regional competitions in order to win your belt, on top of the technicity tests of course. By hobbyist do you mean you partake in competitions from time to time ?

@@TheMusicalKnokcers it means all he does is train he don’t really do competition meaning he won’t have as much experience and won’t be as good at decision making as someone that goes competitions regularly

@@nifLefty oh i see thank you my friend

@@TheMusicalKnokcers yeah. I train 3 times a week and compete once a year locally. Pretty casual compared to these KZfaq guys. Still enjoy it!

Thanks you so much man!

Being respectful is good. But do not respect your opponent in the combat. Giving respect makes you hesitate. It makes you weak. As a long time wrestler and BJJ practitioner, and as someone who has many accolades in such, trust me. Being nice like this will only weaken you.

@@matthewcolvard6410 That's utter bullshit.

😮😮​@@matthewcolvard6410 great advice my brother. we can always be polite and respectful before and after the match.

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so why purple and not brown ? i bet he is better than at least 80% of the BJJ brownbelts that exist

​@@lordad zero standup and takedown game

wish you well bro, those type of injuries are never nice

that bro in the beginning was way too aggressive, way to heel hook him

@@MangoBums Too aggressive in a competition? lol

If you don’t mind me asking what happened? I wanna get into Muay Thai, but if it’s dangerous then maybe I should stay away.

@@dna8269 is he allowed to thow knee kicks ?

Lol fr fuck that guy 😂 he got so heated when he got tapped. It ain't that serious bro.

I wanted him to get slightly injured. am i an asshole for that lol

@@hallomeinfreundflaviosimon7930 No, you're not 😁

That knee to the face wasnt the purple belts fault at all.

@@CJFripp what exactly about his reaction is bad? You talking about when ref raises his hand? Blokes just exhausted

Thanks man will do!

Thanks bro 🙌

Damn its him

@@lanceocana9059 him before he was him

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Thanks, you too bro

"A black belt only covers 2 inches of your ass, you have to cover the rest" -Royce Gracie

Thanks man! If I could give one tip, whenever you can try to record your rolls. That is one thing that has helped me a lot

worddd, i appreciate that man, wasn't expecting a reply but hey i genuinely appreciate that. For sure will, you are a badass bro @@JoshRichBJJ 🙏💯

Thanks man!!

You trained how many times a week back then?

@@turano3574 7 with 2 hour sessions

@@wanderer9569 you think it’d be hard to get into? i’m super introverted with social anxiety but i’ve just been needing something to do in my life as it’s mundane as of now and i feel like this could be something good

@@SePBs just do it man, don't think, Just do.

@@SePBs Yo whatup, did you start your bjj journey? I'm about to embark on mine.

Thanks joel!

@@JoshRichBJJ Dude can you make a video on your mindset and why you train so hard? Like you are making gains for faster than the average joe.

On God, no cap, frfr triple OG, OG triple triple. Dead asses and facts and sh*t. Herp herp.

Danaher said it himself too

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Thank you bro

lol

​@@electron1324if 5 guys come at you with knifes your done no matter what tbh

​@@electron1324 if you want proof of this then just search up "the ultimate self defence championship" on youtube, it's a competition of loads of different martial artists vs self defense situations. Even the pro mma fighter couldn't different attacks from a single guy with a knife

@@nokoh yeah, if you are untrained but if you are a black belt in taekwondo, kung fu or other martial arts. That focus on fighting rather than scoring points. You can easily take out 5 guys.

@@electron1324 I'm convinced you must be trolling

3 years

@@DustinPacleb Thanks for correcting that. Realize it later in the day that it was 3 years.

@chris2perez No prob man :). It's crazy though! 3 years is unheard of in the BJJ world

3 years!!

He really was the Prodigy

When you say stuff like it makes all the work that the blue belt put in seem useless

Bro your probably ass like use your brain he’s a really good blue he’s a purple belt now and he just pulled trough so hush lil boy

Josh is really good he trains almost 11x a week and it’s intelligent training too I’d say by now he has close to black belt skill as a purple belt

What is "bbj"?

@@Eppu63 he meant bjj as in Brazilian jiu jitsu

and for things that never happened lol

@@djdoc06 purple belt they pretty much don't. I'm sorry but I've seen it firsthand way too many times and also grappled college wrestlers myself. When I was a white belt I got dunked on by highschool wrestlers my same age. same as blue up to a certain point, then I could sub and it was over. i also did college wrestling myself, but coming from a bjj background, I was a walk on and I sucked beginning of the season up to the end where I won my last 2 matches lol. it was interesting and a lot of fun lol. I could scramble and leg ride like a champ for days lol (but my takedowns sucked and my takedown defense) l apparently scrambling and sticking on someones back was a hard skill for wrestlers to learn. BJJ thats just normal, so transferable skills from one art to the other goes both ways. anyways, a wrestler will learn BJJ much quicker and put it into his game and progress very fast through the ranks if allowed too, but after awhile he evens out with all the other BJJ guys at a certain level. College wrestler would probably make it to a purple belt much faster than normal student, and than that's where he'll most likely stall. Obviously if he competes at every tourney and takes it seriously 2x a day every day of the week he'll keep progressing must faster but there is a point in grappling where the moves you learned in wrestling play less of a role and it turns into pure grappling. wrestling isn't grappling, it's a specific slice of it. It wont help you maintain back control or take back control from somebody not wanting to give it up. wrestling teaches the opposite of that. wrestling wont help you submit someone from top control. control yes, but get to the position to submit someone from top and than to submit them is out of the scope of wrestling. it wont teach you heel hooks or leg locks anymore than a whitebelt knows them. theres a certain point of grappling that is outside of the scope of wrestling and it teaches the opposite. Look at ADCC, Sambo is the epitome of wrestler that knows submissions, great for MMA. for ADCC, there arent any Sambo guys that could even win. infact they dont even qualify. They are really bad at the pro level. of course at a local gym hell run through people and at low level tourneys it will be dominating display of wrestling where people like you will think sambo crushes grapplers. but go higher levels the college wrestlers dont make it, the pro judo guys, the sambo guys. its a great base and will take you very far to a certain point quickly. usually purple belt, after that you become like another student with no wrestling background very quickly. why because now youre doing x guard, leg locks, sweeps, leg entanglements, traps to take someones back that puts their back to the mat etc plus more. all of that is vastly outside the scope of wrestling and your peers know the control skills needed for grappling that you learned from wrestlings. I've done both and they are both extremely fun. I actually as of right now, prefer wrestling. i transferred colleges and my new college only has a wrestling club. wrestling fee is much cheaper than a $120 a month gym membership, that's why i'm doing it. guys that thinkg wrestlers shoot up to brown and black belts and wreck seem very new. He could but that depends on the skill level of your gym. Every gym varies. competition blue belts can beat some black belts. So I don't grade wrestlers by who they ran through at a local gym I grade by competition. Wrestlers pretty much don't exist in competition because wrestling skill doesn't focus on the skills needed to win high level grappling competitions. grappling focuses on winning high level grappling competitions.

@@djdoc06 I get that impression from having done college wrestling and grappling. wheres your argument I dont even know how that applies to anything I said. We're talking about a D1 college wrestler progressing through the skill levels of a grappler (bjj).

Looks a lot like he's trying to set up a Sao Paulo pass. Feels terrible when you're on the botto..

Yeah it felt absolutely horrible lmao

I do that to athletes bigger than me, but I spare those smaller unless they are man-handling me already 🤷🏽‍♂️😆

I hope we can too!

Trust me, when your grappling your brain is more focused on the grappling part, you can tell if it gets *gay* by if atleast one person stops trying to move out of the position

No problem bro!

You are wrong. You most certainly can master this; in about 15 years, if you practice at least 3 times a week and I bet you'd be surprised at how quickly you get 'good' at it. Losing is learning, particularly in Jiu Jitsu, you'll get creamed for a long time in the beginning, by everyone, but if you just keep putting in the effort, you'll suddenly start seeing more of the opportunities and threats, and you'll begin to out think your opponents. It's been four months since your comment. Go look up your local Jiu Jitsu club. It can change your life.

belts only roughly indicate technical level, they're very relative. especially young competitors are often underranked, since they progress faster than they get promoted to higher belts. some instructors deliberately postpone awarding higher belts to promising talents so that the athlete could develop better and gain more experience.

Belts are relevant when you face off opponents who have a similar competition record and experience. If you only train and never or just rarely compete than a lower belt who regular competes can be much better but when you have to similarly experienced fighters the belt does matter.

welcome to competition bjj

He only has his blue belt for one year. You need to have it for two years (at least) befor getting promoted. Respect the hustle.. 6-9 times training per weeks is not easy

@@kinderadenauers9724 he should have had his blue belt years before then he'd could have had his purple belt by now, but then there wouldn't be a story ha ha ha

I went to an AJP tour tournament in October 2022 and in my bracket i had a blue belt with 60+ wins being a blue belt since 2018, josh is fine compared to him

realistically he's a brown

Once every 1-2 months or so

How is he sandbagging if he competes in higher divisions? Both weight and rank

@@Flbari claiming he's a blue belt.

@Flbari black belt beats blackbelt could be another title.

hey

@@JoshRichBJJ Hello

That's what I was thinking it was a truly suspect attempt

I make money from my KZfaq channel and live with parents lol

@@JoshRichBJJ And you're doing an excellent job man! Keep it up!

sand bagging

@@Chris-nq3et no he only been a blue belt for a year and in most schools you need to have a blue belt two years before getting promoted

@@kinderadenauers9724 idk if hes beating people of that caliber surely he should get a new belt, some people progress quicker than others. But what do I know, the only martial art I know is couch cheeto crust jitsu.

Same, that ref kinda sold tho

@@poopman3180 Na he cool. I just chatted with him about this situation before he reffed one of my matches this past weekend. I also ran into Lui Born and when I asked him what happened he simply smiled and said “shit happens”!

Exactly