If an athlete is already very experienced and skilled from years of training in a related grappling art and thus makes very fast performance improvements, he or she is far more likely to get promoted quickly.“ I don’t use the same performance criteria for older athletes as I do for young healthy athletes – that would be unfair. I’m glad that Jiu jitsu has separate belts for children. I don’t believe in giving black belts to children as many martial arts do. “ How long it takes to make each advance in belt will be determined by several factors. You still have a lifetime of learning and development ahead of you.” It is a symbol that you can now enter into a more serious phase of learning where you know enough to formulate your own developing approach to the game and begin to teach others. Black belt denotes your passage into training adulthood – nothing more. As an adult, people only care about your achievements as an adult. “ Once you become an adult no one cares what grades you scored in junior high school – though when you were back in junior high school they probably seemed like a big deal to you. Understand that if you study for a lifetime you will spend the vast majority of your training years as a black belt and look back and wonder why you ever concerned yourself with worry over how long it took to go from blue to purple belt.” In truth there is only one belt that counts – black belt. “ Second, despite this, people probably put more obsession and concern into belt color than than they do into anything else in the sport. First, Belts do absolutely nothing to enhance the one thing we should be interested in as we study Jiu Jitsu – our performance level (we should always be striving to improve our own performance and the performance of those around us and ultimately the performance of the art itself).“ “Two things I have learned over the years in Jiu Jitsu. It might’ve taken a few days for the post to catch Danaher’s eye but when it did, the man at the forefront of modern BJJ answered in his trademark analytical style: I wanted to ask what you feel are the requirements for a blue, purple, brown or black belt at your academy and if it is subjective or are there blanket levels you expect for each belt. Hi John Danaher, I recently listened to Joe Rogan’s interview with Firas Zahabi where they discussed how one of his purple belts had submitted several seasoned black belts in competition and that the two of you differed in opinion as to whether this indicated that he should be promoted to brown belt. This is something that is relatively common knowledge as Nick Rodriguez had a breakout silver medal ADCC performance before even being awarded his purple belt.Īs a result of this first-hand account of the grading standards at John Danaher’s gym in New York, an open question was posed on the BJJ Fanatics’ facebook group in the hope that Danaher would answer: Quite recently, Firas Zahabi went on the Joe Rogan Experience and at one point, he talked about John Danaher and his comparatively high standards for belt promotion.
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