Had to give you a shoutout my guy haha

@@KierenLefevre im feeling it.....almost feel famous....thank ya sir

Started 4 or 5 years ago, still a no stripe white :) Granted, during this whole time I've accumulated maybe a year of training combined (+ a whole year off due to covid)

@@KierenLefevre bro! Got my second and third stripe last night!!!

@James Bishop Yes my dude!! That's awesome congrats - bring on the blue belt 🤙

hell yeah keep grinding brother!!!

W

update?

Thanks for the light 🫱🏿‍🫲🏼

One year at blue? How often did/do you train?

Absolutely Jordan its all about the jiujitsu!

Although it’s about the Jiu Jitsu, it’s frustrating to train 3-4 times a week on average and not receive any advancement. I have to remind myself of the progress I’m making constantly to keep going. I enjoy going, don’t get me wrong. Just frustrating is all.

After 7 months of training I finally got my first 2 tabs. Don't feel downhearted bro, keep grinding

@@nonyllll1681 thanks! Just got my first last week! I am super pumped!

Don't feel bad, my friend trained for a year but when he graded he got 3 stripes at once. You will get there!

@GregLurik Official - it’s always based on gyms, my gym does promotions every two-three months but still maintains the appropriate timings of each belt. I assume yours is an annual promotion so you’re more “behind” but I feel like you’re a top tier white three if you’re getting your stripes by year since you and I have been training for roughly the same amount of time.

wow that's actually really disappointing to hear that you had such a negative experience. Props to you for sticking it out and persuing a different gym

Similar situation where an instructor at another place literally yelled at me for tapping out while being pressured mind you it was my third time rolling with no knowledge or experience. This F' my head for months & got turned off. Pandemic happened...but always had it mind to try it again & not let this one person ruined a potential journey...almost 8 months into my current academy...2 stripes, loving every roll & learning to not tap out under pressure ...lol. Good luck with your journey, OSS!

Unfortunately this happened to me and I was there 5 months straight 3-5 times a week sometimes 2 sessions a day. Then I fought my last ammy mma fight and the reff was my opponents coachs Sensei. ruined my life in a way I can't explain.

Can’t tell if I’m experiencing the same thing

@James Murphy apparently it's rude to ask the professor about your progress, and or if you'll get a promotion soon? so there's no way of knowing or tracking your own progress. Just base it on how people treat you, and how much you think you deserve based on the time and effort you put in.

Absolutely.

Wow! That's pretty legit, what a promotion! We had a sort of similar situation where a white belt 3 stripe was promoted to a 4th stripe and then immediately afterwards recieved a blue belt. It was because they were moving back to their home country and the coach didn't want them to leave without a blue belt.

I just got my first stripe yesterday. A guy that started around the same time as me got 2 stripes at one time around a month ago. He has a wrestling background.Took me around 3 months to get my stripe which is about what I expected.

@@jordangraves2481 congrats!!

I received 3 stripes today and was not expecting that. I’ve missed a few promotion days but did not expect to get 3 at once, regardless skills>stripes

hell yeah! Congrats on the first step in the journey

Whoa! What an absolute journey, just goes to show that jiujitsu is a lifelong pursuit

I didn't get any stripes in my 1st year. Then I got 4 at once. ^^ Personally I didn't mind it that much, as I go there to have fun anyways, regardless of what I wear on my waist.

Bjj for life 🤟🏻

Are you still training?

That's so awesome!! Thanks for sharing your experience 6-7 sessions is solid 💪🏽

Nah some gyms legit buy their students loyalty with promotions, especially blue belts. Not all gyms are in it for the purity of the sport many are out to make as much $$ as possible

@@KierenLefevre Right, I said as long as the instructor is attentive. There are definitely gyms out there who aren't in it for the purity of the practice.

6 months for 1st stripe on a white belt is insane to me

How long did it take you to get your blue belt?

@@KierenLefevre 3.5 years 😭 hahahaha

@@anthonygoffin6435 Considering it took 18 months for the first stripe, that's fast! bahaha

@@KierenLefevre hahaha yeah, tbh i bounced around for 2.5 years and it really only took a year of solid training 4-5 times a week. Had I done that from the start I probably would have gotten to blue in a year/year and a half (Standard time I'd say)

Sounds like a Mcdojo to me. Most gyms don’t give out anything under 6 months.

@@benjamindelfs2718 believe what you want 👍🏻

I’ve also been a white belt no stripes for 5 years, but due to injuries and life etc. been consistently going 3x-4x a week for 3 months now

Me 3 fellas, moving countries and gyms or only training 2-3 months in one place. I've matured a lot in the 4 years off and just started up again this year, I'm training smart and picking one gym and sticking with it. Hope all is well and you got a stripe! I like turning up as a "new white belt" but have 3 years experience in my old trouser pocket somewhere. haha

how'd you go?

hahaha yeah the pajamas can suck all the fun out of it 😅

Awesome!! Congrats on the first of many stripes coming your way 💪🏼 onto that blue belt

Kieren Lefevre thank you man!!

I don't think you can get 4 stripes in 4 months.

@@TrishCanyon8 if you go to a Gracie University, you get attendance points. 20 class = 1 stripe. At 5-6 classes a week, you best believe you can get four stripes in just as many months. Renner Gracie will also award people a blue belt who have never rolled live.

Amazing work! How often do you train?

@@KierenLefevre anything between 1 to 2 times a week. So not often. But when I wasn't traning all I did was study and done some mma training previous ... so I was tooled up.

damn bro that's rough ngl

@@KierenLefevre it is yeah, but I dominate comps as a white belt in -79,5kg and open weight. :D

@@KierenLefevre cool content, dude! Keep it up.

Hahaha journey until the wheels fall off, I love it! That's awesome Tommy, good work

Same i just got mine after 2 months of hard work and consistency

The bright side of this is when you do get promoted to blue belt you'll already be in a position where you're a STRONG blue belt and not getting towelled up by hungry 4 stripe white belts haha How long have you been training for?

@@KierenLefevre MARTIAL ARTS about 7 years but jujitsu on and off for about three years now

No judgement, just a question. Do you feel as though you could apply your skills in a live situation without sparring? 8 months is a long time to "drill"

@@KierenLefevre I mean, what are we talking about here? A scuffle outside a bar or taking on another grappler? If the former, yes, absolutely. That's specifically what we drill for. If the later, probably not. The time flies. I don't have a problem with the 8 months. I've seen enough MMA and jiu jitsu content on KZfaq to notice the absolute horrid technique that some people have. If drilling gets me to see those movements as second nature, and we're only talking about a matter of months, it will be time well spent. I think it's important to get the basics right. It's my opinion - totally unsubstantiated - that "the basics" are not agreed upon. Before I started with the GU classes I went to another school and day 1 was a disaster. My hands were bleeding by the end of it from gripping the gi in spider guard over and over. On day 1? That's nonsense. That's a blue belt move in GU. Nobody should go home bleeding from their hands on their first day of training. But I did. And they thought it was funny. A rite of passage or something. So that sucked and convinced me more than ever that the GU approach is the right approach for people who aren't "hardcore" into jiu jitsu. I just wanted to learn, I didn't want to recover for three weeks. More than that though, I feel like I'm going to be doing jiu jitsu for the rest of my life. So what is 8 months compared to 50 years? Almost nothing. If that's what it takes to give me a solid foundation so I'm not drowning in the fight the first time I have one, then so be it. Let me ask a question back the other way: What was your first three months in jiu jitsu like and do you think that was the ideal way to go about it?

@RictorIAG Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'm sorry to hear about your experience at the first school you went to, I don't like that "old school" sick or swim mentality, and totally you shouldn't go home bleeding on your first day. The first 3 months for me was pretty much all in, I was training 5-6 times per week and I ended up competing at the end of my 3rd month and won gold + silver in no-gi and gi respectively. I was rolling from day one, which is why I asked about the rolling situation with GU as I believe it's in rolling that I learned the most about jiujitsu. But man it's really interesting to hear the perspective of someone going through the GU programme, I've heard a bit about it but nothing first hand 😁

@@KierenLefevre I'm going 4 days a week. I should get my first stripe next week, so, 20 classes in. It could just be a case of we don't know what we're missing. It sounds like you were killing it 3 months in. For what it's worth, I just ordered a 10x10 jiu jitsu mat so I can practice more at home. I don't consider the drills boring, even if I'm doing them by myself. There's enough to learn in being really specific with each body position that I feel like the time learning in this manner is time well spent.

@@KierenLefevre Ive been doing GU for about a month, and agree with the OP - What's 8mths of drilling in a MA that you plan to stick with for life, more or less, or at least a 10+ year path to blackbelt?? I've trained other MAs before, and Ive always been really big into technique and learning the basics. And, I've won "fights" just by applying that. So, I think the approach is fine. It might not be the best, or at least quickest, way to learn and especially compete, but that's not my concern. Also, one of their main reasons for not rolling is because "we found most injuries in BJJ happen at the white belt level". And, based on what I've seen, I agree. I bet it sucks getting injured and not being able to train before you even get going. And, it makes sense. When you're new, you're just trying the few techniques you know, and a lot of other random shit that's not even BJJ, just to survive. Also, GU lower levels are about applying skills to untrained opponents, not competing against other trained grapplers. So, not rolling isn't as important in that case. So, even after a month, I've had a huge advantage over friends I've grappled with. And like the OP also said, we drill specifically for street-fight live situations . So yea, six months from now I believe (and hope, Im not delusional) I'd be able to "easily" apply my skills against someone who is untrained.

You were able to stay for the advanced as a nostripe white belt? Did you just watch??

That's epic! Congrats on start your jiujitsu journey! 4 sessions per week is a solid start to your training, the average is 2.5 sessions so you'll be smash it 😁

@@KierenLefevre I appreciate the encouragement. Wasn't doing anything particularly productive in the evening and getting close to 40 years old, if I don't start now I probably wouldn't ever haha 🤙