There are even some coaches who promote solely based on attendance. Some coaches are more focused on competitive results when grading their students, while others acknowledge progress based on their students’ individual goals and journeys. Others take a more subjective approach, grading each student as they see fit based on their own perception of their skills. Some instructors, for example, require students to test for their belts and stripes, having a specific set of techniques and skills that students have to demonstrate before getting promoted. Of course, most jiu-jitsu instructors know what they’re looking for as they prepare to promote their students with a new stripe or belt, but across the martial art as a whole, there’s a whole lot of variety in skill level within and between belts. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, because when I do the math I'm suggesting that if you stay 6 months you have a 1/20 chance of going on to black belt, which seems high.though BJJ is still young in the US, and it takes a long time to get a black belt.You only need to cross-train or compete once or twice to realize that promotions in jiu-jitsu are relatively arbitrary. I think it would be very rare to see someone get a brown belt and then never go on to black. ![]() white belts who stay at least 6 months get to blue: 70% I can't think of a single person I know who gave up BJJ voluntarily after having gotten a purple belt. ![]() I think most purple belts, unless they have some sort of life issue that prevents it, will go on to get their black belts. I've seen so many people get their blue belts and then rarely if ever show up again, mostly because I think the pace of learning goes down and purple is very, very far away. If you count everyone who ever walks in the door, then white-blue attrition rate is huge, but for people who stay at least 6 months I imagine most of the fall off occurs at blue. Of those that make it to blue, my own wild guess would be that around 10% make it to purple, around 3% make it to brown and around 2.5% make it to black. of those that do demonstrate interest in being involved in BJJ long term, how many make it all the way to black belt? ![]() ![]() Since there are so many reasons people might take a day/week/month of BJJ & then just quit, I almost think it'd be more interesting to get a sense of what percentage of blue belts advance to purple/brown/black. In fact, I think thats specifically mentioned in a 'what it means to be a brown belt' description that I've seen floating around the net. I would agree that those who make it to that brown belt seem to almost always make it all the way to black. They've tended to be the guys that are training at one place & teaching at another, or are traveling realtively long distances to compete in high level tournaments, or are training muliple times per day for the majority of the week, etc. When I think of brown belts I've know, far fewer fall into that category. When I think if purple belts I've known, a decent portion of them could be categorized as your typical weekend warrior with above average training consistancy. From purple to brown seems like the transition that is often hardest to make for part timers.
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