Would love to hear your feedback on this, and if there are rules or situations we've missed, you can suggest new items from the ruleset page as well!

We just launched something we've been thinking about for a while: The Beltchecker Crowdsourced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Rule Book. Instead of one (or many) organization deciding the rules for everyone, we let the BJJ community vote on them. Just like usual here on the platform, only verified profiles get to vote and your belt rank determines the weight of your vote. - Which techniques should be allowed at each belt level - How many points different moves should score (takedowns, sweeps, guard passes, back takes, etc.) - How should matches be decided / other general rules You can cast your votes either directly on the front page or by clicking "Ruleset" in the bottom menu bar. The goal is to eventually have a community-backed ruleset that any gym or tournament organizer could actually use as an alternative to existing rulesets. The more people vote, the more meaningful the results become. Would love to hear your feedback on this, and if there are rules or situations we've missed, you can suggest new items from the ruleset page as well!

Don't know if it's by design or a bug that the survey never ends? I kept having same questions come over and over again. After five minutes I quit it... Kind of reminded me about those psychological test back in the day where they repetitively asked if you wanted to be a gardener.

It should only show you questions that you have not answered yet (there's one for each belt level). Might be a bug when it runs out of questions. Maybe try to reload the page and see if it still comes up?

If I vote “Yes” for a particular technique, would it be possible to automatically apply that vote to that technique for all higher-ranking belts?

It would be great if we could differentiate techniques in gi vs no gi. Like knee reaping in the gi is kinda sus but in no gi I think it's fine. Very cool concept and I liked reviewing the data!

Where can we visualise the current results? I can only see the voting page

Im going to recommend a rule for vote but Id like some community feed back to hash out the details first: Rewarding 1 or 2 points for lifting your opponent up off the ground for more than 2 Seconds. In my mind this would encourage the bottom player not to allow being lifted and ingrain better habits. I try to teach my students this all the time: either you make sure they can't lift you, or you let go and stand up if they do. Sure slams arent allowed and shouldn't be, but you are entrusting them to follow the rules and (not to get all street fighty but) its a cool skill to not give someone the opportunity to slam you. I get it might encourage dangerous behaviour in the lifting player but if they know the rules well enough to know they can lift you, they might know a slam will get them DQd. See any issues with this? (Also we will for sure give the rules set a try for our in-house competitions!!)

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Im going to recommend a rule for vote but Id like some community feed back to hash out the details first: Rewarding 1 or 2 points for lifting your opponent up off the ground for more than 2 Seconds. In my mind this would encourage the bottom player not to allow being lifted and ingrain better habits. I try to teach my students this all the time: either you make sure they can't lift you, or you let go and stand up if they do. Sure slams arent allowed and shouldn't be, but you are entrusting them to follow the rules and (not to get all street fighty but) its a cool skill to not give someone the opportunity to slam you. I get it might encourage dangerous behaviour in the lifting player but if they know the rules well enough to know they can lift you, they might know a slam will get them DQd. See any issues with this? (Also we will for sure give the rules set a try for our in-house competitions!!)

You can post it as a suggestion here: https://www.beltchecker.c[...]ctedmenu=2 Then if it gets a total of 10 positive upvotes, it moves to the actual ruleset where people can vote on it

I suggested a similar idea rule, to not reward behavior which puts you in risk of a slam. Demonstrating in a controlled fashion that you could have slammed the other guy (e.g. with him having a triangle, arm lock or simply having jumped guard) both gives you points and resets the position either to open guard without grips or to standing position. Perhaps a verbal signal of intention could be required (calling out "slam!", like simultaneous kiai needed to score points in some karate kumite competitions or some kung fu hero shouting out the technique names : -).

We just launched something we've been thinking about for a while: The Beltchecker Crowdsourced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Rule Book. Instead of one (or many) organization deciding the rules for everyone, we let the BJJ community vote on them. Just like usual here on the platform, only verified profiles get to vote and your belt rank determines the weight of your vote. - Which techniques should be allowed at each belt level - How many points different moves should score (takedowns, sweeps, guard passes, back takes, etc.) - How should matches be decided / other general rules You can cast your votes either directly on the front page or by clicking "Ruleset" in the bottom menu bar. The goal is to eventually have a community-backed ruleset that any gym or tournament organizer could actually use as an alternative to existing rulesets. The more people vote, the more meaningful the results become. Would love to hear your feedback on this, and if there are rules or situations we've missed, you can suggest new items from the ruleset page as well!