Average Time to Go From White Belt to Black Belt In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Average Time to Go From White Belt to Black Belt In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
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Bernardo Faria explains how long it usually takes to go from white belt to black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in this video.
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Bernardo Faria is a 5x World Champion. Bernardo started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Juiz de Fora - MG, Brazil at the age of 14 in 2001. After receiving the Black Belt from his first instructor Ricardo Marques in 2008, He moved to Sao Paulo to join BJJ legend Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training and winning many major titles, Bernardo moved to NYC in 2013 to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Bernardo achieved his dream of winning the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, doing the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking and also chosen as the best athlete of 2015.
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How long it took you on each belt?
I started training at 40.5 years old and have had 1 serious injury. I'm currently a brown belt and 47 years old.
It took me 14 years of constant training because back in the late 90's there weren't any black belts in my area. My first instructor was a blue belt. We had to learn from video tapes and traveling around to meet other practitioners. Today you can learn anything from the internet and there are many associations to join.
11 years, 29 to 40 years old
Very helpful thanks
About 4 years now and about 2 years off the mats due to injury and health. I believe I am probably close to blue belt, but have some weaknesses, especially standing stuff. But it's difficult to practice that effectively since due to my weight and my back condition, it's very easy to get hurt when I fall. Breakfalls help a lot, but not as useful when you're learning stuff that is well outside of your comfort zone and you're making dumb beginner mistakes. And repetition for getting taken down sucks for an older guy. I've literally gone to an open mat and gotten taken down in the first 5 minutes and had to take the rest of the day sitting on the sidelines. So I usually start in open guard. Which doesn't help me for my stand up game. If I have a skilled opponent, I will also do slow rolling stand up with no takedowns for the first 2 minutes too. I'm not concerned when I'm stronger and more skilled, but I don't learn much from that. I learn more when I'm playing against a higher skilled opponent. And I'm always in danger of getting a bad fall. Sucks getting old.
I got my blue belt in one year, and my purple belt almost exactly two years later.
Good for you
The time from white to black should be 20 years. The black belt should not represent merely the ability to tap others or win competitions. The black belt should represent a DEEPLY pedigreed knowledge, which can only come with time and experience. Everyone's competition career will come to an end, typically far faster than they believe. What do you have then? All you have is your knowledge and the ability to serve your community by teaching them well thought out jiu-jitsu. Nobody attends 5 to 6 years of school and graduates with a doctorate. Achieving a doctorate takes approximately 20 years Inclusive of high school and initial undergraduate training. The black belt represents a doctorate in jiu-jitsu. For those who claim this is "too slow", nothing rushed ever has lasting value and nothing with lasting value is genuinely gained by rushing. Take the time, savor the journey, prove your commitment, and live as a legitimate servant of the community because you qualified yourself with a deeply inculcated knowledge which enables you to do so.
I used to say it’s easier to stay in shape than to get in shape, then I had to take a year off training, hard to dust off those cobwebs
Makes sense
I got mine in 6 months. is this too fast? but I do train a lot
Hi Bernardo how can I contrast a stronger opponent?
i still dont get why some people cares so much about their belt color. especially im meeting a lot of white belts who actually has 10-15 years of wrestling or grappling previously. as long as im learning, grinding, be able to self defense and having fun without getting injured, thats all that matter to me which will never finish even if i will be red belt
Because people like milestones, and that’s okay if it gives you motivation to train
I am at that point now. I am a 53 year old Brown Belt and I see lower belts just killing it with all kinds of fancy moves...........and there is always someone who is more of a badass on the mat! I am having a good time, train hard, learn new techniques and help newbies and I am pretty happy with that. :)
Another interesting topic is how fast will all these kids get promoted when they reach adult Blue Belt? There are dozens of kids that are killers on the mat at my school and they are consistently winning Gold at all the tournaments. In 8 to 10 years there will not be enough room on the mat to hold all the Black Belts at my school if they stick with the program!
I don't care about belts, I don't even like jiu jitsu it just breaks my fingers. No gi is fun
If the average is 11 years, how many times a week? That would be valuable to know. My bjj time is about 11 years now, 3 times a week, I got by brown belt two years ago. Probably 3 more years to black belt.
Im 37 train maybe 2-3x per week, have done for around 7 months. 2 kids, job and late university wtudy and i know it's gonna take me a long time. Things are clicking but super sloppy and im very slow remembering what to do lol i love it, i hate that thos week will only be 2x per week but it is what it is. I could see me taking a long time on this 😅 but hey ho it's good fun either way :)
it also depends on the ease with which a school gives the grades and belts... not including professionals who are a separate category and have other timescales. for example in mine you don't get more than two notches a year so at least three years in colour..when I read in two or three years that they already become purple belt I have some doubts about it.
I got my purple after 3 years but I did win the world masters at blue
Why is you shoulder tweaking. Is that a green screen?
I doubt ill stop but im slow picking it up, never done a combat sport, never really done any sport lol i love it but otll probably take me closee to 15 than 10
Thats all fine and good, but another reason why you have people getting black belt sooner or later is because there is no clear path on what you need to do or aim for in order to progress. If you have a white belt that does 3 sessions per week and on other days spends his time on BJJ video clips and the other one that only does sessions, the time and progress will be different depending on physic and skill.
I think the emphasis on ten years or more puts artificial constraints on the belt system. People can come up with all sorts of reasons why a person should not advance due to the arbitrary time constraints. It also makes it seem like 5 to 7 years is a short amount of time, when it is an insanely long time too reach a black belt for a person who is truly dedicated to the art. It is impossible to expect people to be able to train for ten plus years without minor or major issues cropping up. I think the model is based on the old principle of training a business man once or twice a week for 18 to 20 years. Even if gym owners are not intentionally doing so, signing people up for contracts (that automatically renew) also benefits them as people facing issues will not quit, but will allow the withdrawals until they return (even if it is months or a year later). It's like a weightlifting gym that has a thousand members, but only 50 or so train consistently. Gyms ultimately make $18,000 to $20,000 off of members. I also think that lengthy periods eventually demotivate the ones who really love to train. Although love of the sport is always key, it is very hard to keep up 5 to 6 days a week or two a days over a period of years. I think people get really good, can beat most of the people in the gym, but then realize they will be a blue belt for two more years or a purple belt for two more or a brown belt for three to four more years and then it becomes an issue of mental discipline. (You can say it is not about the belt, but then you give out belts. People will say they do not pay attention to it, but they do.) Additionally, as more time passes, the person gets older and other issues crop up, that person is no longer the same grappler, and then the powers that be can say, "See, that's why it takes time." The person who was really a higher belt at the time, is now judged as a lower belt due to injuries, aging and other factors. I think a serious practitioner (6 to 12 sessions a week) can reach a black belt in 3 to 5 years and a person who trains 3 to 4 times a week should be able to do so in 5 to 7 years. By shortening the time required, I believe people will become more focused and try harder. When you say 11 to 15 years to a black belt, hardly anyone will start with that goal in mind. They will say they love it first, because an eye on the prize will drive you to madness.
I agree. One of the most important things for longevity in jiu jitsu is having training partners you have built relationship with and trust enough to be able to train while injured or just when feeling off. I have had many times in my journey that I have been injured and missed very little class because I had friends I could trust to train with. That allowed me to progress through the belts as quickly as my professor would allow. I spent 1 year at white, and 3 years at blue. I knew my professor had a 4 year total training minimum before he would give anyone their purple belt, and very few got theirs that fast. I only spent about a year and 5 months as a purple belt before getting to brown, so a total of 5 yrs & 5 months from day 1 to brown. Now a 3 stripe brown belt, which I received right at 7 years in. I guess we'll see how long it takes to make it to black. Also, I'll be 50 in a couple months.
A black belt is just a 21-stripe white belt. I wish people wouldn't make it out to be some superhuman achievement. If you like it, keep training. If you keep training you'll get a black belt. If you don't like it, I'm sure you'll find something else you like and be just as good at that.
Nice! Train until you don't care about belts!
I am not sure how important belts really are.........especially when I watch a KZhead video that starts out something like........."here is a move every white belt should know".............and the move is something I have never seen, never had done to me and is so simple and obvious that even a blind person can see it......ugh, makes me want to burn all my gi's and bury my belts.