IBJJF RULES DICTATING BLACK BELT PROMOTIONS

Dozer · 2026-04-09T14:00:39+00:00

Let’s shed some facts on this. 1) A lot of people on here claim that a promoting professor requires 2 stripes to promote another black belt. This is required by IBJJF. 2) A majority of those same people that dispute a BB promotion because their professor does not have 2 stripes, EVEN WITH APPROVAL FROM A BB WITH 2 STRIPES. 3) The same people are picking and choosing which rules to follow based on what they feel. 4) Unfortunately, feelings don’t trump facts. On page 12 of the IBJJF promoting guidelines, article 7.4.1 - An athlete who received a provisional Brown Belt and is later promoted to provisional Black Belt, while remaining under the same Professor and/or academy from the initial provisional graduation, may have the provisional Black Belt approved by a Second Degree Black Belt. However, if an athlete remains a provisional Brown Belt for less than one year, the provisional period resets once the provisional Black Belt is approved. In this case, the Professor who approves and…