How would somebody who you think is an arse train (and thereby have influence on your club) long enough with you to be eligible for promotion anyway? I have a personal idea developing ATM (won't go as far as call it a theory) actually that 'honour' and 'respect' are fear-based systems/concepts that arise when vulnerability, love and true trust are shunned / seen as undesirable for some reason... and that's psychologically not the healthiest way to operate... (also keep in mind that abundance of 'original' ideas is a matter of not reading enough... which I definitely am guilty of)

I'll be playing that the next time I go to Josh Leduc's school....

I don't need you to explain honour and respect to me I was asking for your definitions. Or point me to one then that I could look up so we could be talking about the more-or-less same thing. If we don't try to reach a common understanding about the things we are arguing/exchanging thoughts/debating about in the first place - that's also a thing that creates High School Drama :) I agree with your explanation of giving belts and I neither would give a belt to that person. In fact I'd not allow them to train in my gym and with my students therefore I also wouldn't be making a personal connection and I don't award belts without that. E.g. I also refused a seminar offer by one worldclass blackbelt on the basis of his public reputation.

We both agree on that, I have seen it first hand, gentleman is literally on his way to his Black Belt testing, gets a call from the Professor, telling him not to come, and that they need to discuss a matter brought to their attention, which was a bad thing lets just say before they would test him and see if its true. I enjoy the back and fourth however I am jaded as a truly believe that Majority of Jiu Jitsu is now a sport and that people have that mentality, like Hockey players getting drunk, killing someone in their car and paying a fine. Schools tend to lack code of conduct, mission statement and etiquette, how are your students expected to know what the Martial Arts code is, if its not written somewhere, one of the main things i notice when I do in school consulting sessions

" Loyalty and respect is earned, not given." "I've never expected respect and loyalty from anyone until I've earned it. "

Play this when the tough guys roll in and watch the expression on their faces as they are deciding whether to leave or stay. https://www.youtube.com/w[...]stISOttCQ0

Ha - not too dissimilar from some of the stuff I play, I'll have to add that to the list. ;P

Pyramid scheme

34 black belts did, so far. And they have the power to reverse it, which I am completely open to and would embrace. Isn't this is a very, very interesting experiment? :) I honestly couldn't care less about black belt degrees (https://beltchecker.com/f[...]amp;id=302). I will never wear them on my belt. For me, a black belt is a black belt. Anything else is just dick measuring and illusion of hierarchy. But I think it's interesting to shake things up a bit. For some strange reason, we all agreed that a for-profit tournament organizer in California is the one and only God entity that can certify the count of number of years since your promotion is correct and then sell you a piece of paper to approve it.

Hey Christian, I know you know Chris Haueter well. Chris said to me before promoting me to Blackbelt and I quote ' Cooley I recommend you get your Rickson certificate and the iBJJF Certificates' I didn't question him. Rickson was easy, as Chris is well known to him and easily verified. $200US later... Photos and etc. While the IBJJF is a process and takes time waiting for a referee course and just having the signatures of your promotions and dates verified by a IBJJF certified high enough Blackbelt... Now the IBBJF certificate is in the mail to Australia shortly, on the next batch printing.. Upto 6 weeks.

Did any of you go through the entire IBJJF black belt degree certification process? Do you remember what the fees were for all the required things?

seeing responses here make me feel spoiled over on the judo side of things lmao

In Brazil is R$800 (IBJJF - CBJJ), you have to do a first aid certificate and their rules course. I did the rules course in 2015 but is expired and I am waiting for their decision about when we will have another course been held. I asked them for an on-line rules course but no answer for while.

I was told via ibjjf email that they were going to offer the online course two months ago and have not heard anything since then. Still waiting too.

They are offering on-line rules courses now. Both websites IBJJF and CBJJ (for Portuguese speakers) I just registered for one of them.

Looks like you had to be quick. There are 4 dates being offered and they have all met capacity.

They are requiring a 7.0 pass mark. Everybody here knows the points for sweep, mount, back take, etc. But there a few trick situations that might happen on a match, if you are not updated with the newest version of the rules book, you can get surprised. On the course I attended on the past they also transmitted a few matches and asked the final score. I am not sure if they will have such thing now, because it's going to be only 4 hours course.

Just finished the course. Yes the test includes scoring certain scenarios in matches. Alot of good information and the time was only 4 hours.

I'm scheduled to take the course on the 22nd of July. What is entailed as far as the test ? How difficult/long is it? Just curious. Thanks for any info.