ADCC Blue Belt Effect: Why You Buy New Gear and Philosophy
It happens every time. The ADCC stream ends.
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BJJ News — blue-belt
Josh Barnett Says Blue Belts Shouldn't Get Paid. He's Half Right, and That's the Problem.
Josh Barnett has a problem with you getting paid. The former UFC heavyweight champion, second-degree black belt, and catch wrestling promotion operator went on the record recently with a take that landed hard in the grappling community: blue and purple belts competing in tournaments shouldn't get pr
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When a Blue Belt Tries Whiteboard Teaching for Jiu-Jitsu
Paul Wentworth, 44, has trained jiu-jitsu for eleven years across three separate periods—started, quit, came back, quit, came back again. On Tuesday evening, he brought a whiteboard to his rolling class.
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10th Planet's Grey Belt Solution: 'Blue Is Where They Quit'
On July 2, 10th Planet Torrance did what most gyms won't: they looked at their own data and spoke the quiet part out loud. Blue belt is where students quit.
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Governing Body Blocks Two Blue Belts From Competing Against Each Other At Family Reunion; Cites Exclusive Gym Membership Contracts Both Signed At Same Family Reunion
TRURO, MA — Forty minutes before cousins Dylan Ferraro, 26, and Micah Ferraro, 24, were scheduled to grapple on a tarp in the backyard of 118 Highland Road, the Ferraro family reunion was interrupted by a process server from the North Atlantic Jiu-Jitsu Commission, who handed each cousin a 12-page c
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