Black belts saying the belt doesn’t matter is like rich people saying money doesn’t matter 😂

The secret is mat time. Higher belts usually mean you have more mat time, so there's a strong correlation.

Can I make a suggestion for a similar, but different video. What if you go up against different belts Without knowing what belt they hold. I think this would make for an interesting video.

Technical ability is not the ONLY measure. If I see a black-belt, I know that person has spent years of their lives dedicated to this thing. They've bled, sweated and broke themselves for it. If a blue belt taps them, who cares? That black belt, to me, is a signifier of dedication, knowledge and time.

In this episode Tyler trolls players at every belt.

I did not know you built gunpa! I saw the detolf in the background, and figured surely a man with a detolf builds gunpla, but I'm so overjoyed to see my suspicions confirmed. You are truly more awesome than we ever could have known!

It is impressive to see your calmness and smoothness when you roll. Thats my goal im too much of a spas and gas out too fast! Nice post!

Good content bro. Doing this test at different gyms would be good to see overtime. Would also be cool to see a video from you about cauliflower ear. How you got it, how long it took to get it, what are the pros and cons of having it. What to do to prevent it but also what to do to get it. Some people hate it and some love it so good to get both perspectives.

Great vid, your camera person ended up rolling with my daughter later. I didnt realize that you were a YT'er at the time. subscribed!

Very clever with the ad there Tyler.. you both show rolling footage AND the ad.

Outstanding work Hangman 👍

Great vid tyler

Enjoy the video suggestion can you make a video with lower rank belt but bigger in size stronger or more athletic to see if size and strength really matters

I said this 23 years ago that I don't need a belt to tell me when I'm good I will know when I am good. Having a ranking is good just as long as there is no sandbagging or fake Black belts.

Tyler I’m minuscule in comparison and truly enjoy your awesome videos.. 🙌🏾🥋👍🏾

One of your best yet, Tyler! I especially loved your Martin Luther King Jr. rant at the end. Feeling good this late hour, as a blue belt (one stripe) got my first "questionable" Black Belt submission tonight. Jiu-Jitsu, .... all good.

Great video

Hey we’re you at grappling industries in Hopkins on Saturday?

Loved this video mate. Mat time is 100% the difference. A brown or black who has trained for 10 +years 2 or 3 times a week may struggle against a competative purple who trains 2x daily 5x per week. You made this look easy in any case.

It matters to the person who got their hard work acknowledged when receiving the belt. That's the extent of the importance IMO. I love training with No Gi groups with very few ranked rashguards on the mats where I can just train and see where I stack up by rolling. I've actually found that not having belts on the mats often results in everybody rolling more productively because there's just no pressure to spaz and prove yourself compared to people with more or less stripes or different belt colors.

Great vid.

Is this a Troy reference about taking glory? @5:41 lol

this mans movement is unreal.makes everything look so easy

Id love to roll with you.. like I know we would have sooooo much fun, I would not get hurt, I could roll with you all day, get tapped 1000 times, and never feel if i was going to be injured, your so methodical, and nice, but also hard pressure.... I wish we had more people like you..

What about going back to only black (coach) and white (student) belts?

The souls borne figurine goes hard

W outro ⚔️

Bro turned into Tyler Luther King at the end ☠️

Black tuxedo bjj rash guard please ❤️

The belt system isn't imperical or conquering all but is marker to the instructor of the students ability to recieve instruction.

Also, that brown belt needs more details for his buggy choke.

I think belts matter, but the thing is, it’s about time time and training and rolling is what matters most

I wish belts were abolished. Be like wrestling or boxing. Thus also avoiding world level athletes keeping competing at artificially low belts.

I just wanna say - I’ve rolled with some white belts and blue belts that have given me far more of a challenge than higher belts. Belts are fashionable if nothing else though

My technical escape to the buggy is frame and uhh knee on face

"as i finish off another man" is crazy 🤣

The thing is you can't prove your point by taking a little sample like this. First of all, you should separate recreational belt and competitive belt. There is a huge difference between a blue belt who has his belt since 2 years, going compete every 2 weeks, train 6 grappling or jjb times a week + doing some weight compound exercices, young, explosive and "mean" in his style, and a chill dad black belt who go 2 or 3 times a week, who drill and slow spar all the time, who's not in the best shape, and even so he's doing this since 15 / 20 years, sometime the blue belt will just school him .. I speak from my own experience too, i can sometime have terrible intensity/difficulty against some blue or crazy purple athlete competitive belt, and sometime just chill and dominate against a blackbelt who's even tryharding and outgasing and lay for 1 minutes breathing heavy after our sparring cause he give it all. Don't forget that knowledge don't always mean everything, when you have strong basics in all the main sequences of a ground game, you can counter a lot of technical subtilities from an experienced blackbelt by just standing outpowering him or refuse to go in some of his underground games. For me , belt most of the time mean knowledge, as a teacher who can be good at teaching and transmitting but not necessarily the best in sparring or competing. Off course it has some value to it, but not that much. an ELO system would be more accurate like on smoothcomp. You also need to precise that every teacher don't give belt the same way at all or for the same criterias (some give it them out of your capacity of sparring / applying technique spar / compet / other just based on the assiduity, the knowledge, the time you wentt in the gym) . My teacher have for example a brown belt since 15 years and will slay a lot of the black belt he will encounter. Also, don't forget that we're not all equal, some are naturally more good in some area than others. (im not talking about absolute determinism but for instance i have this white belt guy who already better than a lot of ppl but my dude went 15 years of rugby before going grappling) Im not saying belt ranking has no value but some people just take it too seriously or like a perfect indicator of what you have against you. Or some people just put to much ego in the color of their belt and it can affect the efficacity of progressing in grappling (i remember in open mat this blue belt, now purple, who will never spar with lower belt cause he was scared of being tapped like if it was an absolute shame) no need to precise that if your never tapping or being put in difficulty you probably doing something wrong in your training.. Also i'm not saying that putting yourself purposely in bad spots when your a higher belt to progress or let also the other work is a part of the game too and i don't talk about this side of the things

As a brown belt.. I can confidently say… at purple belt, black belts WANT to see your game; it’s a lot of give and take. But at brown… you’re almost there!! So now it’s the real pressure cooking

Please review Gracie Combatives 2.0 Curious your thoughts

I see some gunpla, welcome fellow gunpla and jiu-jitsu nerd

Belts matter in very general sense but there are quite few outliers and shiity schools that make you think it doesnt.

I'm a white belt with stripe I take black belts down all the time it's all about technique.

It has to do with those things called practice and experience. Higher belt put in more years of training so often they are better. Other than that the belt system is a scam to make non competitors feel good about themselves and they will keep spending more money.

I’m a brown belt and belts don’t mean shit. Everyone is on their own journey, belts mean different things for different people. Back in the day it really meant black beats brown and brown beats purple and so on Now it’s very common to see blue/ purple belts who are competitive and train full time absolutely handle black belts who may train as a hobby or work full time. So yeah belts doesn’t mean much

I wouldn’t say it’s a scam but there is no “constant” with belts. Everyone’s coach is going to be different. The same coach could have different expectations for different students. The only constant is years on the mat. Don’t let belts discourage you, just keep training

Belts don't matter, but they represent the time and effort spent training, which clearly does matter... Right?

whomever says that are idiots. Never mind if it says how “good” you are. The point is ……1 year @ white……2 years at blue ….2.5 years at purple …..1year at brown…..and im 2 years at brown……thats 10 years of my life…….It a symbol of my hard work. Even if i had bought it myself id want it. its may trident……and few people can even get to purple…like i said…idiots

BJJ has become nothing but a scam. Most schools wanna milk the money so they don't just let people roll. They have time slots for that and most do 5 min rounds for "competition reasons" but some just wanna get better at the art. People can learn a lot more by training and rolling at a slower pace and avoid injuries much easier but schools don't make money like that. They have students roll with every belt and every weight and preach train "competition specific" that makes no fucking sense. They preach humble this and humble that but how humble are they when they always wanna be the one to humble others lmfao. I respect BJJ but truth is most blue belts w striking experience or even a solid wrestler with just boxing compared to a black belt w no striking equals a win for the blue belt or wrestler. It's highly overrated and belts aren't a ranking system at all. It's just a way to keep people paying the school.

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It is not scam but not organized., In beginnig of 2000s generally black belts crushed 90 percents of lower belt. Because Sensei never fully opened bjj skills to lower belt. So higher belts generally beat lower belt easily. But after Media such as KZfaq has been developed so drastically, BJJ instructors started to upload advanced Bjj Skills for free, getting more subscribers. Naturally, for techniques, everyone can learn same skills, regardless of belt colors. So it is easy to see very athletic wrestlers who learn Bjj 1or 2years beat BJJ black black belt salary man who just train BJJ for fun 9 years. In my personal opinion BJJ= 35 cardio+35skills+30 strength. Wrestling 45 strength+35 cardio+20 skills. I cannot say BJJ belt system is not scam but is imperfect.

If you don't have a previous experience in wrestling - like 99% of the people in this sport don't, belts MATTER A LOT.

I thought there is no belt system in no gi?

Nice video

Put on the gi and do the same experiment

Coach Hayden!

Bro where did you get that elden ring figure and the sword??

years on the mat makes you a good fighter, the black belt you bought off amazon doesnt give you XP or a power up to super sayan. Theres no voodoo to it, just common sense.

Belts are just used to tell your skill level because it tells the instructor the skills and tells where you are at

Chinese call it Gong Fu. Skill acquired over time with much hard work.

as some one has been training for ten months, belts don’t matter mat time and quality of both drilling and rolling matter. there are high level purple and brown belts i have been able to hold my own against, and there have been white belts who have smoked me.

That brown belt is still a brown belt because he's relying on novelty BS like buggy chokes instead of learning jiu-jitsu techniques that are actually going to help.

I love your gunpla.

I like Tyler.

Aight, about to open my own school as a white belt. Sure it will go swell.

Buggy defense> Buggy them back

Belts are completely irrelevant to wrestling. 🤔😆

Showing up in an OnlyFans rash guard if you don't have an OnlyFans is like wearing a black belt you didn't earn.

the belt system isnt a scam per se but the way the majority of academies today are run, learning effective technique is not the goal and thus the ranks are highly subjective. also the ibjjf is super biased and suspect, financially not practical

Belts show commitment to the sport not necessarily ability

Yeah if we were all exactly the same and all have the same goals they don’t matter. But………..duh

I kinda wish there was no belts

A belt is a tool for holding your pants.

There's always variables, like a black belt who has trained a couple days a week consistently for 15 years, competed early on but not anymore. Would probably lose to a purple belt who trains 6 days a week and competes regularly, consistently and has done for 6 years.

If you do jiu-jitsu every day for 20 years and still suck, you should be a black belt.

That purple belt doesn’t seem that good

No disrespect but this guy’s didn’t seem too impressive noticing a trend here

I stopped chasing the belt but I still respect the belts. My goal now is to pursue technique and be a good teacher.

Seems like your wrestling helped you more. You got all the guys down that I saw, I stopped watching after brown belt guy.

purple belt is sus

I’m so sick of these guests in Bjj always making these myopic assumptions like this…..You gotta problem with Belts? Go take it up with the Originators if it all! He humble n train period!

Im a joe blow white belt but when I enter competitions I only enter the open class because belts mean nothing and only hold your gi pants up and therefore I have the exact same odds at beating black belts as I do beating white belts. I win many of the tournaments I enter. I have the same win rate against black belts that I have against purple belts, and against white belts.

i wouldn’t call it a scam it’s just a ranking system for time training

It’s a business model. It’s definitely a scam a profitable one. Belts should not at all have a time limit to them they need to have a concrete examination process in which any individual can take the exam and if they pass they are awarded the belt but because every school has their own version of what qualifies you for a belt it’s mostly centered around time committed to the school meaning money. That being said it’s no different than giving a black belt to a 10 year veteran who isn’t very good and a blue belt to a guy who can crush everyone in the class and knows the material to the point of a black belt but isn’t being given the black belt due to the amount of time he’s had at said school.

Hey man, I see you know a lot why don’t you go try to be a professional MMA fighter and fight real deal dudes man while making some great money.

Oss

Khabib mauls every blackbelt

Belts are dumb

Well, this was pretty blatant clickbait for what amounted to random rolling footage