Moving up in rank

[Nat Cummings]

Just do your homework and research it. It's not hard.
Don't be lazy

[Cookie Monster]

they do tournaments/ mma fights
record vid send the vid to eddie
eddie posts it on the forum and after much hard work
*poof* magic

:-d

[Corky]

ok thank u

[geo]

thats what i heard from the grapevine also, you either have to go to eddies HQ and do some damage on the guys that are a belt higher then you or compete and do some damage to go up in your belt ranking, thats a cool system imo. as far as giving the head coach a higher belt on his students accomplishments is questionable, its great for the 10th planet name or the whoever school name that the students are doing great in tournaments but to give the teacher all the credit for that is debatable. ofcoarse the coach deserves alot of credit for that but not to the point of getting promoted in belt ranking. the reason being is alot of schools get dudes that already have a good solid backround in either bjj, sambo, wrestling ect, and the teacher might just have to add very little to sharpen these guys games for them to go into tournaments and kicking some ass. on the other hand, if the teacher is got alot of newbs that never rolled around on a mat in their life and then brought these guys up to legit and solid jj competetors then i think he deserves a ton of credit. kevin green of 10th planet in delaware is a good example of that, he does a great job taking newbs with no skill at all and turning them into very solid jj guys in short periods of time, hes a great guy as well. jj school politics exist everywhere i guess

[Corky]

sweet thx for the info!!

[Jack LaBarge]

Watch the first 3:30 mins. This will help. Instructors that live away from HQ need everything Eddie says in the video. They also would have to go to HQ, seminars, or video's of tournaments etc.etc.