Just got my purple belt in BJJ under Roberto "Tussa" Alencar. Got me thinking, as I only lurk these boards. How many experienced grapplers do we have on the board? I notice a lot of striking and mma related threads, but considerably less discussions of grappling, specifically in the technique sharing department. Speak up and show yourselves! >:)
Join date: Mar 2011
Location: Texas, USA
Posts: 127
Hey killer, im a purple belt under Erik Boranian, a student of Yousef Alirezaei. i mainly do no gi though, so my belt doesn't really mean much lol. i got about 5 years experience in BJJ , also 2 mma fights and lots of boxing background.
I've had my purple belt for a couple of years (was presented it by Royce Gracie). Trained up to blue belt with Roger Gracie and currently train with a Felipe Costa brown belt. (Felipe comes to visit us a couple of times a year)
Any tips on how to take it from blue to purple? or is it just more practice?
Like Ellis said, work your weak areas. I did No-Gi for a few years before starting bjj, I'm still better at it, but I love the Gi game a lot more. Anyway, I found my weak areas by asking my rolling partners. I also get to train 2x per day 6 days a week. So when I found my weak areas, I drilled the heck out of the techniques/movements to tighten up. That's actually something that I've added a TON more of; Drilling. Another purple my size from the school and I have started drilling specific scenarios/techniques we're emphasizing in our game at that moment. We trade off for 3 minute rounds at the end of every morning class and night class. It's worked wonders.
Join date: Jul 2008
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 244
4 Years of folkstyle wrestling, 2 years of Greco Roman, 3 years of Judo (blue belt), 1 year of BJJ now. I'm trying to continue with Judo while learning no-gi BJJ at my University.
Join date: May 2009
Location: Singapore
Posts: 1322
I'm a blue under a guy called Jason Quek who teaches in these parts.
About three years exp.
Yesterday I got tapped out in 10 seconds by Gilbert 'Dorinho' Burns' brother, Herbert. So while I'm not totally shit, I still have a long way to go, lol.
Looks like we've got some solid grapplers here! Awesome! If anybody would like to throw up some match footage of themselves as well, that would be awesome. I'll start. from 2010 https://www.facebook.com/...180627821961133
I love belts because I been doing no Gi for 5+ years and recently started training Gi about once week- twice a month on a stop in basis at my buddies dojo.
The best part is that I start with the blue belts as I have no rank and thats where you start. Respect thing.
But as the day goes on I get challenged by higher belts and it gets progressively more challenging and more work
I end up competing with the brown/purple belts and hold my own very well.
I like the ranking system, its usually a strong indicator of skill. (always exceptions)
Can someone list the order of belts in ranking. I always get confused.... lol
Join date: Mar 2012
Location: New York, USA
Posts: 6
Blue Belt, about 2.5 years exp, trained hard for 2 and then went mia for almost 2. Very happy to be training again and working toward my purple. Hopefully get a couple more tournaments in soon.
