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What Is Required for Your BJJ Blue Belt?

November 21, 2022 by Stephan Kesting

What's Required for Blue Belt?

In episode 380 of The Strenuous Life Podcast I talk you through what's generally required to be a competent blue belt, including... The 8 basic positions in jiu-jitsu A 3 phase strategy for beating a bigger person The real purpose of the guard The 2 types of submissions The hierarchy of positions How to stay safe in bad positions...and what to do next. The importance of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Training Tagged With: Belt, BJJ, Elliott Bayev, Podcast, Positions, Sparring, Strategy, Teaching, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Training Schedule

So You Just Got a BJJ Belt Promotion?

December 13, 2018 by Stephan Kesting

belt promotion

So you just got promoted? First of All, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! By the simple act of training you’ve set yourself apart.  You’re doing something that 99% of normal people would never do. Armchair quarterbacks sure talk tough, but when it comes to actually putting it on the line and having skin in the game, well, nobody back-pedals faster. But that’s not you.  You’ve trained, strained, sweated, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: For Beginners, Miscellaneous, Training Tagged With: Belt, BJJ, Black Belt, The Mental Aspect

Podcast Episode 62 – Rant: It is NOT About the Colour of the BELT!

June 6, 2018 by Stephan Kesting

It's not about the color of your martial arts belt

I'm on fire for this one because it really gets under my skin when people focus on the wrong thing in their martial arts training.  Boys and girls, it's about skill acquisition and NOT about the color of your belt.  Get this wrong and it will destroy your relationship to the martial arts! You can watch a video I did about this on You Tube below: To listen to this conversation you could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grappling Techniques, Podcasts, Training Tagged With: Belt, BJJ, Grapplearts, Martial Arts, Rant, Skill Aquisition, Stephan Kesting, The Strenuous Life BJJ Podcast with Stephan Kesting, Training

What Techniques Do You Need to Know for Your Blue Belt

November 22, 2016 by Stephan Kesting

What do you need to know to get your blue belt?

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a relatively disorganised and highly variable sport.  This is most evident when you start looking at belt promotion requirements.  The belts in BJJ go white, blue, purple, brown and black, with the first four belts typically having 4 stripes each and the black belt having 10 degrees. However the number of degrees in a black belt is getting way ahead of ourselves, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Training Tagged With: Belt, Classes, Rob Biernacki, Teaching, Training, Video

Black Belt Blindness, And Other Dangers….

March 31, 2015 by Stephan Kesting

A black belt is just a 2 inch wide piece of cloth, not a license to pontificate upon matters about which you are utterly ignorant. It's also doesn't give you the right to have people's unquestioning obedience. To get a legitimate black belt in BJJ requires more time, effort, and investment than a black belt in almost any other martial art.  If someone has spent the blood, sweat and tears … [Read more...]

Filed Under: For Beginners, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Belt, BJJ, Bruce Lee, Teachers, The Mental Aspect, Training

The Best Way to Tie Your Belt

February 10, 2014 by Stephan Kesting

How to tie your BJJ or Judo Belt

It's funny: in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu both people start a match looking so neat and tidy in their designer gi's. But less than a minute later it's usually a complete yard-sale: the lapels have come undone, the gi is pulled over someone's head, and the loose belt is wrapped around someone's ankles. Well, here's a 4 minute breakdown on how to tie your BJJ or Judo belt so it stays in place and hardly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: For Beginners, Training Tagged With: Belt, BJJ, Gi, Video

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