SUBMISSIONS 101 yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Printable View
I'm from the north part where the language is Flemish (Dutch dialect), but you can use "crackhead", "zombie" and "Dude! Quit bogarting the bong!" since 90% of the Flemish speak Dutch, French and English.
"Dude! Quit bogarting the bong!" = Mec! passe le bong maintenant! (Dude, pass the bong right now!)
It's not that there are Jiu Jitsueros in the government or that it's the government that provides the certifications.
The top of a Combat Sport/Martial Arts Federation does a write-up of the requirements for each rank (colored belts and all the black belts ranks).
This will be given to the Ministry that is responsable for sport education (and ant-steroids control, sport subsidises, etc...), they overlook this paper and also let some sport MDs and psychologist look at it, that's to prevent injury prown testing (example: swinging with a real katana at unarmed fellow students or (heavy) humiliating bonding crap, etc...).
Once this is approved, this becomes the standard for each club connected to that federation and only at the Black Belt (or higher) tests their will be a representative of the government overviewing that each member get the same difficulty level of exam. This is to prevent favortism between clubs or between individuals.
Offcourse with BJJ there's (mostly) no real exam, but the government knows that the BJJ community is self regulating. If some instructor gives his belts too easy, his students will get masacred in competition.
When a federation wants to change their requirements for ranks, they do again a write-up and it gets tested again...and so one, so one.