Geo Marinez blocked from Worlds ???

[Jason Mallory]

I was just watching the Polaris 3 stream and the commentators said that Geo was blocked from competing in the IBJJF No-Gi Worlds for not having been a black belt long enough to qualify. Is this true ? That's some old bullish if true.

[Arman Fathi]

Just think how sick he'll be when they let him.

[Scott Chapman]

Ibjjf has a minimum standard at belt rank for black and Geo blew past those and was promoted ahead of their schedule so he was offered only brown belt level but I have heard he now meets requirements of black belt and can compete, I bel this was same for Boogey as well. Both I would assume will be dominating the no Gi worlds this year...

[Jason Mallory]

Ibjjf has a minimum standard at belt rank for black and Geo blew past those and was promoted ahead of their schedule so he was offered only brown belt level but I have heard he now meets requirements of black belt and can compete, I bel this was same for Boogey as well. Both I would assume will be dominating the no Gi worlds this year...

Cool man... thanks for filling me in.

[Ben Eddy]

It's still a huge headache for any 10th planet black belt to compete at NoGi worlds. The IBJJF doesn't recognize Eddie Bravo, so if any 10p black belt wants to compete they have to get registered under a different professor who is willing to let them do that and who is recognized by IBJJF. Then you have to pay a bunch of fees on top of your competition fees.

It's a huge joke. And you go through all of that just to support an organization which you don't want to support.

[Aiseop]

It's not Eddie, it's anyone who doesn't pay the ~$600 "I am an IBJJF black belt" certificate. Mind you, one can pay ~$50 as a black belt to compete in IBJJF events, but in order to have the privilege of saying "so and so is a black belt" you have go through the ~$600 fee/registration/vouching/gouging procedure they do.

[Eddie Bravo]

Register under Denny, he's a second degree black belt