Beltchecker has already sparked a handful cases of profiles with belts from grappling styles that are not straight BJJ, which were more or less all of them directly disputed and either changed or removed by the owner. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in the future as more people come on board. Will the community approve Luta Livre, 10th planet, no-gi etc belts here? Are nogi belts valid as BJJ ranks? What are your thoughts?

You'd have to change the name to Grapplechecker.

I could totally at some point split this out in separate sites for other styles, like Judo, LL, etc.

I imagine you could. Wouldn't it mean alot of work for you?

Well yes and no. Some work to set it up, once running, no work. I don’t feel like doing that any time soon though, have a loooot of things to build and improve first :)

The 10p is the hard one actually...

Yup, at least around here they are accepted as legit BJJ belts... I think some/most(?) 10p schools in Finland have a little bit of cross-training in the gi as well, and the 10p students often enter the FBJJF events (always a lot of them in the nogi comps; a few do the gi ones too) at their belt rank levels earned at the home gym.

If there was “no-gi” written across the belt on the person’s profile page, it would make more sense to me. That being said, I find it strange that people who don’t wear the gi, and vice verse, would be verifying the group that falls outside of their style. For example, if someone has a 10p BB, I only think they should verified and get verified by other 10p BBs.

If there was “no-gi” written across the belt on the person’s profile page, it would make more sense to me. That being said, I find it strange that people who don’t wear the gi, and vice verse, would be verifying the group that falls outside of their style. For example, if someone has a 10p BB, I only think they should verified and get verified by other 10p BBs.

I could totally at some point split this out in separate sites for other styles, like Judo, LL, etc.

Well Drew, the core of LL includes a lot of stuff that most of the BJJ schools don't ever do. 10P is just a matter of attire.

Why would you ignore X-percent of the Art?! I fully Honor and respect 10p an LL as awesome grapplers - I love to train with them and I love to learn from them! But to me BJJ is Gi AND NoGi, Sport AND ValeTudo/Self-Defense... If you summ this up you have four categories- you do all of those, you do BJJ, if you don’t, you might practice PARTS of the Art, but I would not see any rank as BJJ. Same goes for Strategy- if you play „catch mentality“ over „Position before submission“, you might be an awesome and successful grappler - but in my book, you don’t really practice BJJ.

I beg to differ! 10P is basically BJJ fuzed with catch wrestling. At least that's what we do at our gym. Neck cranks, spine locks, compression, all the good stuff. =D We do it with the gi aswell.

I beg to differ! 10P is basically BJJ fuzed with catch wrestling. At least that's what we do at our gym. Neck cranks, spine locks, compression, all the good stuff. =D We do it with the gi aswell.

I think they recognise your BJJ rank up to brown belt. I got mine right away when I started walking on the flat earth (jk). But if you got a 10P rank and got promoted in BJJ, let's say from blue to purple, you'd still be a blue belt under 10P.

In our gym, 'no-gi' class is always ADCC rules so includes all that (also one of our black belts is a huge catch wrestling enthusiast, so that has some influence). But wIth the kimono it's IBJJF rules by default. I think most places have it like this(?).