Is Frank "The Man" James good or bad for 10th Planet??

[Dartangan Jackson]

Im pretty sure Rashad has a black belt top game no doubt in my mind. His bottom game is the part that i would question more so.

[stlnl]

Im pretty sure Rashad has a black belt top game no doubt in my mind. His bottom game is the part that i would question more so.

Thing is, the guy has been training as a full time pro how long now? 5-6 years? I dont know what level he started at (meaning when we first saw him on TV) but To think he never works a bottom game, or to thing a full time pro who can train all the time doesnt have a game developed....well I would guess he has a decent bottom game. However, often with competition guys, some never develop a "rounded" game. I remember Wallid Ismael back in his days of tournament dominance. His guard was never a weapon, and he never used it as such in BJJ comp, he got on top, and ravaged guys guards and had a crazy top game. But just because his top game was so much obviously better than his form/function bottom game, would you say he isnt a black belt? I wouldnt.

[ifreez]

But can you name some purple belt ranks? Also, Rashad isnt honorary. The guy who gave it to him said he was awarding him a no gi Black belt. Pretty sure the guys who went from 1st degree up, also meant it, meaning it was not "honorary"

Honorary, means you know a bit about the subject, but are not held to the standard of performance. Regarding Rashad, guys like Rhadi Ferguson and other Black belts say he is a black belt, so take no offense if I am willing to take the guy's opinion who awarded Rashad his no-gi Black as well as Rhadi's over yours in implying Rashad cant grapple at a black belt level.

Dude, Rashad went from white to black. To me that's honorary. Furthermore, Honorary does not necessarily mean you're held to a lessor standard. In academia, if you've written umpteen books on a subject and are a leader in you'd field, even more influential than others with actual PhDs in said field, but never got a PhD yourself, they sometimes just give you an honorary degree.

Especially in music and film faculties. They don't give honorary degrees to chumps. They have those ceromonies for the badasses that never got a degree, who would put anyone with a degree to shame. And they call it an honorary degree.

[Eric Spicely]

I was always told by instructors that every part of your game has to be at the level of your belt. If you have a purple belt top but a white belt level of escapes and defense then you're a white belt. Alot of people give out belts on attendance and "dedication" to the school aka paying your gym dues.

[stlnl]

Dude, Rashad went from white to black. To me that's honorary. Furthermore, Honorary does not necessarily mean you're held to a lessor standard. In academia, if you've written umpteen books on a subject and are a leader in you'd field, even more influential than others with actual PhDs in said field, but never got a PhD yourself, they sometimes just give you an honorary degree.

Especially in music and film faculties. They don't give honorary degrees to chumps. They have those ceromonies for the badasses that never got a degree, who would put anyone with a degree to shame. And they call it an honorary degree.

Seems to me though, famous people are the ones who always get honorary degrees. Are you saying Rashad has never trained any BJJ tech?

[Jared Gammel]

Think of honorary as a non-traditional path.

People that join indigenousness tribes and then come back with boatloads of previously unobtainable information could get honorary degrees in anthropology or English if they write about their experience. Would you say these guys have no anthropology technique? No. They just didn't go to an Anthropology Academy, they went out into the Anthropology World, and are thus rewarded prescriptively after the fact.

[stlnl]

Think of honorary as a non-traditional path.

People that join indigenousness tribes and then come back with boatloads of previously unobtainable information could get honorary degrees in anthropology or English if they write about their experience. Would you say these guys have no anthropology technique? No. They just didn't go to an Anthropology Academy, they went out into the Anthropology World, and are thus rewarded prescriptively after the fact.

Like I said, always seemed only famous people got them. But I have no idea what reqs from large universities are, I have a feeling the reqs are probably quite varied. In light of this, do we think the fellow in question did in fact get an honorary purple belt then?

[Jared Gammel]

In light of this, do we think the fellow in question did in fact get an honorary purple belt then?

thread is definitely tl;dr

[John P]

lol yea i think Eddie wants us to stay focused on the question he asked...not that im agaisnt a good ole how legit is evans and his bjj

[stlnl]

I couldnt give an answer to the thread without knowing if the fellow in question did, or did not get a purple belt from Charuto, since he said he did get one. But the focus did shift all over the place with the word honorary.