If Jiu-Jitsu ranking was a food chain, (and it is) the bottom of it would be made of fresh white and blue belts, and the apex predators would be the Black Belts in all their glory with colored belts forming the tiers in between. Much like predators in the animal kingdom, the colored belts each have their own death-dealing specialties. Some are stranglers, some are leg hunters, and some even favor wrist locks. In this vast ecosystem, all these predators will point their weapons at the most vulnerable targets, white belts (or wrongly promoted blue belts for taking the correct number of classes to get promoted- we all know who they are) LOL
I can confidently say fresh White Belt BJJ practitioners in academies across the world are the targets of colored belt predators. Sure, white belts may not have the skills in order to keep themselves safe, but I can say for certain the colored belts can be nothing but assholes at times for bringing their best weapons against them. That’s right, I don’t care if you’re a black belt with multiple published videos on your unique Back Take/Kimura/Guillotine/Toe Hold trap.
You colored belts will hang onto your A-Games much like children holding onto their security blankets. Who cares if you tap 100 white belts with your special, 5-dimensional Kimura Wrist Lock Back Take trap system (PLEASE CLICK BELOW TO BUY MY DVD) . The fact that you spent decades building it is admirable; however, are you that insecure in your collar chokes that you need to use the “A-Game”? Does a human need a gun to kill an ant? Would you crank an armbar to let the white belt know you could win in a street fight? FUCK NO! It’s called catch and release (white belts are fish in a barrel anyway)! No offense…
Here is an idea, you cannot evolve in jiu jitsu if you don’t put yourself in bad positions. You cannot rely on only a few sequences or attacks and think your “A game” will get you promoted or a gold medal. You have to train with higher belts and with people that have more experience so you game can grow.
At the end of the day getting a few taps in the training room doesn’t mean shit. Still, colored belts, you have to ask yourselves, ‘What makes a true apex predator? An animal that can only prey on the weak? Or something more evolved that can make a lion look like a small rabbit?’ After all, if the white belts stay rabbits, your school will only produce rabbit hunters not lion killers.
