No obvious promotion evidence at all unfortunately. Only a bunch of together-with-pics, which are common enough to take on seminars without any promotion having taken place (as is also shown by you having a couple of together-with-pics with instructors who you don't claim have promoted you).

Also see my comments on your profile plus advice here https://www.beltchecker.c[...]amp;page=2 on what to add to quickly get your profile verified.

The Pic of me on my brown belt is with Allen Hopkins...my instructor who promoted me as shown on my lineage...
I'm really not sure what your deal is...
Look any of these guys up, do you think I just show up to.seminars with a brown belt lol

Look around in the forums and you'll se quite a few of these discussions before.

There are a lot of pics with me together with colored belts, from seminars etc. I really wouldn't like anyone to think of these as evidence that I promoted them, as that is very often not the case. Ie together-with-pics is poor evidence.

On Beltchecker, there have been instances with members showing up to seminars with non-legit belts, both in good faith and without. Sure you'll get some up votes just based on trust-me-bro, but if you want only up votes and a lot of them, you really should gather strong evidence.

If you don't yet have good evidence, you can always make your profile unvoteable by removing e.g. the blue belt from your promotion history.

I guess I can just post my certificate? I have a few

As I just wrote in a private message:

Pic of certificate (where it's clear who signed it) together with a together-with-pic with the same promoting instructor is in combination sufficient evidence for me. Send me a message if you add it!

As you say, the certificate can easily be forged. You can also easily change the color of a belt someone puts around you, if you have basic Photoshop knowledge. I changed my belt color to pink on one of my old promotion pictures and added it to a thread as an example.

Once such a fake is revealed though, there's not much excuses possible and you'll have a bad rep forever in the BJJ community. Just having added a together-with-pic, there's a million excuses possible if it's later revealed you weren't promoted by the one you claimed. So the risk you take if it's fake is an important part of what I consider strong evidence.

Much appreciated
I can upload my certificate today... as probably evident I'm certainly not the photo shop guy I can barely run belt checker lol not that that's my style anyway, I don't have a Pic with ma and Allen with certificate as they aren't always ready at the time of promotion. But I've got it regardless and Allen is a pretty well know fella in the US

Allen is referred to as a Sauer BB here, so easy to verify.

https://www.facebook.com/[...]0692199642

Certificate brown belt
From Allen Hopkins

Done.

Verified less than 24 hours after getting new evidence up. A good reminder that an initial down vote can be the help needed to finally become verified, while non votes are not at all helpful :-)

Hey everyone. Looking for a few more votes to verify my promotion to 2nd degree BB. Thx in advance.