I read about this earlier today. I guess I'm not really sure what sort of real power this governing body has. If I were to want to open a BJJ, or even a Judo or Kendo school in France, would I not be able to do that unless this organization, or any organization for that matter, gives me the OK? Do all martial artists have to be registered under this organization in order to teach? I guess I'm not sure how this is any different than the IBJJF, for example, claiming that anybody who isn't a registered BB in their organization, isn't a real black belt irl. Nobody really seems to care enough for it to matter. Or, the Rio Federation saying that anybody who isn't a BB shouldn't be teaching. That happened too, and it seems to have zero impact on anything.

I always thought that Judo and BJJ are already together in France?

Hi guys, Did anyone ear about the actual conflict between the CFJJB ( confédération française de jiujitsu brésilien) and the french judo federation ? In short, the judo federation tell that the gouvernment gives her the rights on judo, jujutsu and kendo, so they says that they gonna lead the bjj from now because they didn't comes to an accord with the cfjjb. The cfjjb represent actualy between 35.000 and 40.000 members in France. So, the judo want to take control of it.... The main problem, who gonna concern us, is that in France if you get the judo Black Belt you can teach jujutsu as a Black belt, and they want to do the same with bjj. The cfjjb is trying to keep the right for their tweeny years of work but in France the administration can be really absurd and it may be the beginning of hundred of people pretending to be bjj Black Belt on because they receive "equivalence" The case is pretty serious and a huge mobilisation is on the way, i don't know if it can help but it's seems important to me to talk about this robbery.

France is on a roll, first the judo federation’s trying to swipe BJJ like it’s a Renaissance artifact and now Louvre gets hit with a jewel heist in under seven minutes. The CFJJB built a legit community with 35,000+ members, and now judo wants to claim “equivalence” like they found a black belt in a display case. If this keeps up, we’ll need museum-grade security just to protect our rank integrity, or maybe France Judo already has that? Teaching BJJ because you have a judo belt? That’s like curating the Mona Lisa because you once painted a fence.

I would have figured with France’s domination in TKD and Judo that they would want the same for BJJ. Hopefully they realize “grandfathering” people to black belt won’t produce French world champions!