the abilities and aggression to beat Mike Tyson of course!

This is the current list at my school, sent to my son who is going for blue. I saw your other posts. I don't think we have this for the other belts. Requirements Blue belt Practical knowledge Grips 1. Standing grip Left hand on sleeve opponent, right hand inside left or right lapel 2. Grip from holding guard Left hand on sleeve, right hand inside collar (same side as left hand) 3. Grip wanneer in de guard Left hand grip in the groin area and right hand holding both lapels Both hands on belt, pressing towards solar plexus area Both hands pushing the lapels in the armpits Takedowns 1. Sweep / trip Inside front foot opponent, outside front foot opponent 2. Single leg Inside cross, outside front parallel, inside (back foot opponent) parallel 3. Double leg Head next to hip, lifting and turning 4. Back drop (met arm-drag) First arm-drag, taking back and then tripping while sitting down 5. Hip throw Arm holding belt Arm under shoulder Arm (hand) inside collar 6. Shoulder throw Arm under arm-pit, like uppercut Rotating while dropping and holding arm opponent 7. Pulling guard While going for armbar While going for triangle While going for omoplata Position recognition Guard Half-guard Spider-guard Butterfly-guard Open-guard Side-control Mount Back mount North-south Turtle Positional escapes Mount 1. Upa and two variations Upa, pushing of Pushing on midsection while bridging Holding arm from opponent, blocking the knee whilst bridging 2. Elbow / knee escape Arm cross on hip whilst making ebi, now bringing elbow to knee and take half-guard 3. Pull with one leg opponents leg over to take half-guard position Side mount 1. Replacing guard Arm in front of opponents head, other elbow on the ground and following up with ebi, now replacing first half-guard then full guard 2. Rolling away from opponent and going to turtle position quickly Closed guard 1. Opening of the guard One hand on the double lapel grip and one hand on the pants (groin area) Two hands holding lapel and pushing under arm-pits opponent Two hands holding the belt while pushing away with lower back 2. Passing under the leg (stacking pass) 3. Passing over the leg on knee 4. Standing guard pass Scarf-hold 1. Escape by way of making a ‘frame’ (triangle shape with the arms) and throwing legs over head opponent 2. Escape by way of hooking the leg and going to the opponent’s back 3. Turning to turtle and rotating the opponent by the shoulder 4. Bridging with follow-up pulling opponent over own body Modified scarf-hold 1. Push with use of cross lapel 2. Bridging while pulling elbow under as to getting an under-hook followed by going to the back of opponent Reverse side mount 1. Bridging and rolling over own shoulder Positional dominance Mount 1. Going to mount 2. Keeping mount position 3. Mount while controlling hip and shoulders Side-control 1. Controlling the side variations 2. Changing between the different side-controls 3. Transition going from one side to the other side while keeping pressure North-south 1. When and where to place your hands 2. N-S as a transition Submissions Armbars 1. From guard position 2. From side-control 3. From mount 4. From knee on stomach 5. From guard pass (from stacking-pass) 6. From standing position Triangle 1. From guard 2. From spider-guard 3. From standing position 4. From mount position Chokes 1. From guard positie 2. From when in guard 3. From side-control 4. From knee on stomach 5. From turtle position 6. From back-mount 7. Escapes against choke from being in guard Leglocks (even though not allowed important for when you are teaching) 1. Straight ankle-lock 2. Knee-bar 3. Heel-hook Reversals Sweeps 1. From guard Scissor sweep Flower sweep Hip bump 2. From de la Riva position 3. From spider-guard 4. Dubbele standing sweep (when opponent stands up) 5. From half guard

You have 3/4 of the major leg attacks (just toe holds missing) but none of the major leg lock positions (e.g. ashi, DOA, inside ashi, 411, 50:50 etc) - is that deliberate?

This is going from whitebelt to bluebelt. Most tournaments don't allow leg attacks at whitebelt just straight ankle lock.

Again this is for whitebelts, they should be concentrating on position, basic techniques, and some basic submissions. Once a whitebelts understands the basics more advanced techniques and principles can be added.

You have 3/4 of the major leg attacks (just toe holds missing) but none of the major leg lock positions (e.g. ashi, DOA, inside ashi, 411, 50:50 etc) - is that deliberate?

1. If i'm reading it correctly, his syllabus says white belts need to learn heel hooks to get promoted to blue 2. There is also a list of positions they need knowledge of 3. None of those positions enable heel hooks So i'm confused if i'm reading it correctly or what the logic is. Surely it's better for a white belt to know Ashi where they can straight footlock or heel hook, than know a heel hook. But how could one even practice a heel hook without starting in a leg entanglement?

I'm one of those dinosaurs who thinks solid positional awareness is more important at the beginner stage, than whachamacallit chop suey garami.

I believe in the beginner stage (which white to blue is) it's important to realize when you're being attacked with a footlock (to know when to tap and not injuring oneself via a wrong movement), than knowing the different setups for them. So in that regard it makes sense to drill & know the footlock finish itself, even without extensive related positioning knowledge.

To be honest, I don't know. I asked yesterday if they had the same type of overview for the other belts, but they dont.

I wouldn't have asked if he hadn't mentioned heel hooks, you can't do heel hooks without a position like ashi! Footlocks you can, but not heel hooks. To me it sounds like saying 'we're going to learn rear naked chokes but you don't need to know anything about back mount as a position!!!'

All this delicate Ashi Salami meta is quite a recent development... I guess most of the leg configurations are some kind of an Ashi (just began to learn the names myself). For example, in Helio’s classic book ”Gracie Jiu-Jitsu” he shows the heelhook without any details about the leg positioning except that the opponent’s foot is in his armpit. :D (you can’t even see how his legs are positioned in relation to the partner’s.) I knew what a heelhook was long before I heard anybody utter ”Ashi”. Ofc these developments have made heelhooks a way better attack; if you watch some older matches people escape them more often because the setups are not so good.

I believe the term ashi garami (足緘) would pre-date this picture since it's a judo term.

This to give you whitebelts an understanding what your coach might looking for in promotion from whitebelt to Bluebelt.

Stripe #2: Ability not to get guard passed

I'm very much looking forward to gaining this ability some day :(

For athletic white belts. The ability to win technically without "spaz" or simply overpowering other white belts.

I'm very much looking forward to gaining this ability some day :(