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Blue Belt Demoted To White Belt
Recently, video surfaced of an instructor demoting a student from blue belt to white belt. The instructor was not loo...
Dear New Blue Belt: Don’t You Dare Quit Now
Dear new blue belt, First of all, congratulations! You, like many others around this time of the year, have made that...
Stephan Kesting Talks To Rob Biernacki About What You Need To Become A Blue Belt
In this video, Grapplearts’ Stephan Kesting talks to BJJ black belt Rob Biernacki about the requirements for becoming...
Watch This White Belt Get A Huge Surprise While Rolling With His Professor
Getting your blue belt is an experience that no jiu-jitsu practitioner ever forgets. It’s the moment you suddenly sto...
The First Time I Tapped A Blue Belt
Okay, I know that training is not supposed to be about “who tapped who”. I know that the ego has little place in tra...
BJJ Blue Belt: Expectations vs Reality
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Why People Quit Jiu-Jitsu
For some of us, the thought of quitting jiu-itsu doesn’t even enter the realm of possibility. We’d go insane without ...
How To Deal With Your “Bluesing” Streak
Getting your blue belt is both one of the best and worst moments of the earlier stages of your jiu-jitsu career. On o...
The Day You Got Your Blue Belt
Talking with some jiu-jitsu guys who had been around the mats a long time I asked the question: “Which belt promotion...
Reader Question: Nervous When Helping The Instructor
A reader question from a blue belt named Jonathan Dunaway: So I get extremely nervous when being an example for my he...
Why My Blue Belt Is My Most Prized Possession
Having your blue belt is like being at the awkward teenager stage of the jiu-jitsu journey. You know enough to kind o...
Meet The Guy Who Earned His Blue Belt At 53 Years Of Age
The Jiu-Jitsu Times spoke to Henk van Mierlo from Renzo Gracie Holland about graduating to his blue belt at 53 years ...