Originally Posted by
JusLove
here's my perspective on this though, we're you anymore deserving before or after the test? anyone who sees a person roll for even a week, can tell how far advanced in their game they are. that should be the test. I've never seen someone fail a belt test, which tells me that either it's dumb luck that nobody ever fails or that your instructor already knows how good you are and that you're going to pass. so why do the test? this whole 5 hour test seems like a test of cardio, rather than bjj. not trying to start any fights, or say I'm right and you're wrong. just my opinion.
This. My traditional karate instructor told it like this, when an instructor tells a student that it is time for a belt promotion, that instructor already recognizes the students abilities and in his opinion, that student is already that rank and the test is more of a test to determine how that student performs under pressure which is where the endurance issue is the pressure factor.
With that being the criteria, it leads to question on whether a person who trains their entire life and puts forth the hours and demonstrates knowledge but lacks physical aspects to be able to tap brown and black belts, is he less knowledgeable than the others? Eddie has stated on here that the only way to become a brown belt in this system is to go to HQ and tap his brown belts or consistently win in tournaments. With that ideaology in place, there are going to be several of us who if we are fortunate, will only be as high as purple belts. I can't afford to quit my livelihood and train at HQ for extended time, and at my age, I'm not going to blaze the tournament scene up, so ill be content to train to purple and continue to learn all I can and pass that knowledge down to my students on a technical level rather tan a competitive one.
And as Eisner says, "quit belt chasing". And I agree, emphasis is put on belts rather than knowledge. And I understand that being able to say that you are of a certain rank is cool, but belts dont always reflect extent of knowledge.
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