Benjamin Westrich 🇺🇸
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- Training since first belt22 year(s) and 5 month(s)
- Medals31
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- BirthdayJune 30, 198541 years old
- LocationColorado Springs, United States of America
- AcademyWarrior Fitness Center Verified
- AffiliationCombat Base
- Member sinceDecember 20196 years on Beltchecker.com Founding member
Achievements
12 of 20 unlockedBeltchecker.com pioneer (first 50)
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Promotion history
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4 years, 7 months, 3 daysBlack belt 2nd degree Current belt
March 20, 2022
(Promotion by time served)
3 yearsBlack belt 1st degree
March 20, 2019Colorado Springs, Colorado
Promoted byChris Haueter- 3 years
Black belt
March 20, 2016Redondo Beach, California
Promoted byChris Haueter
- 5 years, 7 months, 3 days
Brown belt
August 17, 2010Colorado Springs, Colorado
Promoted byRigan Machado - 1 year, 2 months, 18 days
Purple belt
May 30, 2009Killeen, Texas
Promoted byJarrod Clontz - 2 years, 6 months, 25 days
Blue belt
November 5, 2006Atlanta, Georgia
Promoted byRomero Cavalcanti - 2 years, 6 months, 6 days
White belt
April 30, 2004Babenhausen, Germany
Votes received for current rank
+9,365 for−175 against= 9,190 points
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"Black belt under me"
"Legit, osssss"
"Nice pictures 🔥 Looks legit 💯"
"Bons registros em fotos. Não conheço pessoalmente, mas seu perfil parece legitimo."
"I do not know Benjamin but adding my vote to correct the excessive disputes. NO DOUBT - LEGIT"
"verified by pics & competition & voted for by trusted coaches"
"Revenge voting destroys the whole purpose of Beltchecker. I cannot by myself nullify revenge votes, but will place my own downvote on you and anyone else who engages in that kind of behaviour. I'm totally open to discussing previous votes you disagree with, if you want to do some research. Tell my if you want to take that path instead and I'll gladly remove my downvote here."
So you are revenge downvoting me for not agreeing with you skipping degrees on your black belt? Interesting.
2 year(s) ago
No, I'm downvoting you for not having more imagination than that in trying to disguise your revenge vote as something else. You have no consistency what so ever with any of your previous voting.
2 year(s) ago
Give me an example of inconsistent voting. And either way, my inconsistency doesn't change me disagreeing with your phantom stripes. You know you were awarded multiple internet stripes on the same day, so I'm not sure why you disagree with the content of my downvote.
2 year(s) ago
By the way, even if we accepted your fake stripes, you didn't spend enough time at those stripes to then get real promoted to the next one by the time criteria you say you hold other people to. It probably makes you feel better downvoting legitimate black belts but maybe just work on improving yourself.
2 year(s) ago
So what did you work on to deserve the last stripe on YOUR belt, considering it's a stripe automatically given by Beltchecker with the only criteria being you haven gotten three years older (and not necessarily wiser) since your last stripe? Would it be just as legit to you if I instead had claimed my stripe 1-2 that way, spaced out evenly over time?
2 year(s) ago
I worked on producing multiple National and Pan AM medalist, growing my gym, developing my understanding of teaching by doing a pedagogy fellowship with my PhD and also worked on developing the upper belts that work with me into good instructors as well as competitors. In order to facilitate that, I also worked on rounding out my knowledge of jiu jitsu and MMA by branching out and training with more people and trying to learn from more groups than I had previously. I probably made more advancements in those 3 years than the 3 before it, tbh, and I hope the next three is similar. What I didn't spend my time doing was making new criteria for skipping degrees on my belt like you did, so maybe my time was wasted according to your revealed preferences
2 year(s) ago
So now we're going after family too, despite not having cast a single downvote? How alpha of you, Benjamin Westrich! What a great human being and inspiration, inspiration for your students and pride of your old instructors you are! What's the next step, after having some students join in on your extended downvoting? Going after my daughter on Instagram? I'm sorry you can't downvote yourself for not even being promoted to your last degree by any human involvement, as I'm sure your true feelings is that not getting degrees from a physically present senior black belt is the real problem here.
2 year(s) ago
Back to making stuff up again? Man. Your dad does need fix his profile though, as he also claims multiple stripes on the same day. If you guys fix your promotion history I will change my vote, but as long as you are claiming illegitimate stripes based on multiple promotions a day the downvotes remain no matter how upset you are.
2 year(s) ago
If I was making new criteria for getting several cued up BB degrees at once, like you wrote, what criteria that I should had considered do you mean I made up new criteria in relation to?
2 year(s) ago
You could be honest like your dad and just say that your instructor didn't give you those stripes, he just allows you to claim them but he didn't "promote" you, the passive passage of time did. No matter how much of a hypocrite you seem to claim I am for claiming one of my degrees was awarded based on time, even though I have a certificate from the combat base and IBJJF saying what degree I am, it was in fact awarded on "time" and not personally by my professor so I did the honest thing and claimed that. You seem to have a huge problem with me being honest and you not and would rather me put something else
2 year(s) ago
Considering my instructor physically put all three stripes on my belt, he literally gave me those stripes, if you want to go into semantics. Had I (and he) known he would come to Finland only later the same year, all three stripes would had been awarded at the same time anyways. If we do your interpretation of the semantics, I hade two promotions - one where I with permission put on the stripes myself (actually I never did, so was there no promotion of any sort at that date?) and another, at the same date as the third stripe, when he also put on stripe 1 & 2. Heck, it's stripes, not rocket science! But really, no matter how I would modify, it wouldn't make any difference, only reset my points. Which is why I personally try to make profile change corrections which won't trigger reverification. So please tell me if you have such a suggestion that you'd be ok with.
2 year(s) ago
I think you can change them all to just be time and the profile won't require reverification, correct? Or will it? I honestly don't know
2 year(s) ago
I would actually think it tidier myself with spread out time served degrees (with notes that I myself consider them preliminary and never wore them) and then go directly to 3:rd in person with Alexandre. Would you personally think that would look better?
2 year(s) ago
If I am understanding it, that does sound more representative
2 year(s) ago
Even after giving you a clear way of fixing your profile that we both agree on, you haven't done it and your revenge downvote remains. How petty and small of you.
2 year(s) ago
I checked with the mods and there's basically no guarantee it won't reset the verification points. https://www.beltchecker.com/forum.php?p=read&type=7&id=66783
2 year(s) ago
Btw, you can check on https://bjjliitto.fi/info.php?lang=en that many of the highest degree BB:s in Finland (where I was promoted) were also on one point or another awarded several degrees on BB at the same time/year. With degrees also accepted by IBJJF (see https://ibjjf.com/certified-black-belts).
2 year(s) ago
Medals
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IBJJF No-gi Pan American Championships
Dec 2016
Fight To Win Tournament of Champions
Feb 2016
IBJJF No-Gi World Championships
Sep 2015
Fight To Win Colorado Open
Aug 2015
Fight To Win Colorado Open
Aug 2015
Fight To Win Colorado Open
Aug 2015
IBJJF American Gi Nationals
Jul 2015
IBJJF No-Gi American Nationals
Jul 2015
SBJJF Arizona Open
Apr 2015
SBJJF Arizona Open
Apr 2015
Fight to Win Nationals
Apr 2014
Fight To Win Nationals
Apr 2014
Fight To Win Nationals
Apr 2013
Fight To Win Nationals
Apr 2013
Denver Judo Open
Apr 2012
Fight To Win Nationals
Apr 2012
Fight To Win Nationals
Apr 2012
Fight To Win Nationals
Mar 2011
Fight To Win Nationals
Mar 2011
Army Combatives Tournament
Jun 2010
5 Oz Fight Club
Sep 2009
ADCC Texas Regional
Jul 2009
5 oz Fight Club
Jun 2009
Lone Star State Showdown
Mar 2009
Lone Star State Showdown
Mar 2009
Army Combatives Tournament
Jan 2009
Army Combatives Tournament
May 2008
Army Combatives Tournament
May 2007
Battle For H Town
Mar 2007
Battle for H Town
Mar 2007
Tournament Hosted by Andreas Schmidt
Jan 2007

