Bjj how long

Vote here! The official Sherdog Store is back! Check it out! MS Paint v6 Sherdog Store. Joined: Nov 7, Messages: 98 Likes Received: 0. I have no grappling experience whatsoever and have completed my 5th class in BJJ. I'm 5'7'' lbs but feel weak as hell compared to others. When I'm mounted or put in side mount, I feel as if I can barely move.

And I get submitted left and right. Kind of a shitty feeling just getting handled so easily Did everyone else go thru the same growing pains when they started?

How long before you felt somewhat comfortable in terms of positioning, sub defense, etc? TalkShowOnMute , Nov 8, It's really nice having brand new people show up.

Because it's much easier to gauge how much you've learned compared to completely new people, as opposed to your peers. They tend to learn right along with you, so the skill gaps tend to remain the same. In a year or so, you'd be decent against completely newbs. It takes a long time to get actually decent. Joined: Aug 23, Messages: 4, Likes Received: 1.

Turtleguard , Nov 8, Gotta get as much mat time as possible. Decent meaning I at least look like I have a clue as to what I'm doing. You kind of have to push through a plateau, so try not to cut back on training too much and remind yourself to have fun when you train. Take your time when learning something even if it seems easy or trivial, remember the devil is in the details. Finding new details to moves that you know can rekindle the love for a position you stopped caring about because you thought there was nothing else you could do with it.

If you want to get good at something, you have to be consistently working at it. Also, try to go to Jiu Jitsu at the same time and day every week. For this reason alone, if not for your own health and safety, you should try to avoid getting hurt. As for protective gear, when you are training, this is usually not needed. However, I do recommend a mouthguard. It is not a major inconvenience and can save you from having to pay to fix a chipped tooth.

Rather than struggling through something for possibly weeks on your own, you can have a private lesson so that you can figure it out quickly and move on to learning something else. Attending a seminar of a world champion Jiu Jitsu practitioner can sometimes help you to see something you thought you knew in a whole new light. At the very least, you are sure to pick up a few helpful tips and learn a new position or submission.

It helps you find weaknesses in your game you never noticed before. Open mat is a designated time where students are allowed to use the mats as they please. We have a great article on open mat, What is Jiu Jitsu open mat, and should new people attend? Nevertheless, if you stick to the grind, you will begin honing your own personal style of BJJ. The knowledge gap between blue and purple is vast, but you will get there eventually. At the high end of blue belt, you will start having moves you are personally good at.

Speaking as a purple belt, I spent over three times as long at blue belt then I did at white belt. The average purple belt takes anywhere from years to achieve, depending on multiple factors. The IBJJF standards require two years at blue belt to receive a purple belt — however instructors may or may not follow this guideline.

While you will certainly have an arsenal of techniques you know, there are probably a handful of techniques you know well enough to really use against skilled opponents. A purple belt should be at the point where brown and even black belts must watch their backs or risk losing position or getting submitted.

At purple belt, you really begin honing your own game and learning how to apply it against higher-level opponents. Assuming you are training consistently, you will theoretically spend less time at purple belt than you did at blue belt.

As with blue to purple, instructors will ultimately have a bit of discretion. Believe it or not, BJJ brown belt to black belt may require the least amount of time of all the belts. A brown belt is a seriously advanced rank in BJJ. At this point, you have a polished game and an arsenal of techniques. You will begin hammering out your details to allow you to threaten black belts with submissions.

Additionally, you may be teaching or even leading a BJJ program. The final stretch requires sharpening those techniques until they are crisp enough to use against anyone. Belt stripes are small pieces of tape that are applied to the end of a belt. Before black belt, stripes on a belt are given by some instructors at their discretion. Other instructors feel that stripes are a good way to honor commitment in between full ranks. For most people, they are simply an indication of how long someone has been at their current belt level.

At the black belt level, stripes are referred to as degrees and are more formal. Typically, each degree at black belt requires three years. As such, a stripe on a blackbelt represents more time training since receiving the black belt than the time it took to receive an entire colored belt rank i.

According to the IBJJF a coral belt is a 7 th or 8 th degree black belt and typically involves having a serious impact on the history of the art itself. These ranks require a commitment to both competing and teaching BJJ at the black belt level and are exceedingly rare. The red belt is the ultimate rank in BJJ. It takes an estimated 48 years at black belt to receive a red belt. A theoretical black belt earned at 19 the minimum age to receive a black belt would be eligible for red belt at age If you add together the average time at each belt, you will end up with around years to go from white belt to black belt.

With that said, achieving a BJJ black belt in six years is uncommon. Most of the BJJ black belts I have talked with took anywhere from years. There are many reasons that a black belt typically takes upwards of 10 years to receive in BJJ despite the theoretical average being years. These include the following factors:.

Due to the vast number of techniques and styles of BJJ, there are so many positions and skills you must master before becoming a black belt.