Green belts for adults. Or for what it matters, any kind of intermediate graduation between white and blue belt for adults. For example if I'm not wrong, SBGi Kavanagh uses white - white with a blue line - blue with a white line before the blue belts for adults. Certain schools have them, certain schools have them not. What are your ideas about? I confess sometimes I play in my mind with the idea of introducing them in my gym.

In the Ribero lineage, using a yellow, orange and then green belt between white and blue was very much in the judo tradition, and each had a very specific curriculum with techniques to make you a 'rounded' blue belt by the time you earned your blue belt. If you have a specific curriculum then I think they are useful for adults to work through etc, but if you don't have that curriculum then additional belts may be harder to implement or at least more then 1 intermediate belt between the 2.

My first gym was a Lovato Jr. Affiliate and I went through the white, 4 stripes, yellow, orange, green and then Blue in my first 2 years. Each promotion had a set curriculum that grew all the way up to blue. I really liked the way they did it. It kept you accountable and kept you moving forward and really sinking in the fundamentals. By the time I got Blue, there wasn't any 'am I really ready?' Feeling. I knew I earned it with logged time on the mat and ability to demonstrate a curriculum of fundamentals.

Green belts for adults. Or for what it matters, any kind of intermediate graduation between white and blue belt for adults. For example if I'm not wrong, SBGi Kavanagh uses white - white with a blue line - blue with a white line before the blue belts for adults. Certain schools have them, certain schools have them not. What are your ideas about? I confess sometimes I play in my mind with the idea of introducing them in my gym.

I got one. My first teacher was ATT affiliated. I didn't care for it. It's the same as a 2-stripe white belt. Meaning: good enough to handle random newbie spazzes that walk through the door, not solid enough to perform consistently at blue belt. Best system I know is Wim Deputter's: White belts work through 4 stripes, then get promoted to blue. Then NO MORE stripes after that. It's the best way so stay motivated until the student becomes an 'adult'.

When competing they're going to be white belts anyway, so I don't personally have a problem with in-house ranks.

We have the green belt in our gym. Apparently, Cyborg did it to label and mark the hobbyists. However, I only know of and seen one adult wear it. It is whatever to me. I did not come up through the ranks like that nor would I have my students do it if I owned a school, but I do not. So, not pig, not my farm. I am also not a huge fan of stripes. I feel they are pointless in the color rank division for adults.

A green belt for hobbyists? What an incredibly douchey thing to do. But, since the nonsense that's been coming out of that gym, it's not surprising.

Green belts for adults. Or for what it matters, any kind of intermediate graduation between white and blue belt for adults. For example if I'm not wrong, SBGi Kavanagh uses white - white with a blue line - blue with a white line before the blue belts for adults. Certain schools have them, certain schools have them not. What are your ideas about? I confess sometimes I play in my mind with the idea of introducing them in my gym.

I think the stripes end up being a horrible thing for instructors past white belt also. As people know where they truly stand at the end of the day and just giving someone a stripe every 6 months or whatever isn't really how most people's actual progression pans out. Some people will progress faster than others. Some average and some slower than others. Stripes kind of promote promoting people based upon attendance more than anything else.

I'm not a fan of stripers personally,