What is a BJJ Brown Belt?

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Rick Ellis explores the question of what is a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

[yewoob]

Just making some timestamps:
2:55 2 Things Pressure and Completion
4:20 Work on any glaring holes in game
4:35 Transitional Sequences
5:22 Expand from "A game" and work on making "B or C game" etc...equal
6:00 Teaching
10:00 Gain understanding of what makes techniques work by assessing your teaching
11:10 Pressure
12:00 Even with Defense, connections and details for maximum effectiveness/leverage

[JiujitsuStudies]

I just got my Brown Belt yesterday and been coaching since purple. My game dramatically improved when I started coaching and actually understood about the sequences more and can dissect a technique down to the inch.
Thank you Rick for sharing your knowledge

[sotiriosnovatsis]

Received my brown belt two days ago and i watched this video (and others like it) multiple times in the last couple of weeks. Helpful and enlightening. Thanks for posting it for us up-and-comers.

[RayakaGabri]

If you think JuiJuitsu is a superpower, wait till you find out about teaching. I am proud of being a purple belt, but I'm way more proud of what all these kids I have tought have achieved. The kids are awesome. They have stood up to their bullies, conquered fears and they have even made their parents take classes and live more healthy.

[jasonhemphill]

Great video. 5.5 years in and a Purple belt now. I help teach kids class and have my own adult class once a week. You're spot on with how much it helps you understand positions and details when you're teaching kids and white belts how to do something.

[oldtimerbjj]

Recieved my brown belt in april and it was a huge honor for me (😅).
Been doing jiujitsu for 13 years now. My journey is from an obese guy at the age of 34 to a fit 47 year old.

[jerryoutlaw]

This video speaks great wisdom and I appreciate this so much. I am a 58 year old brown belt. I've been a brown belt for 2 years and I'm in my 6th month of teaching now. I'm really connecting the dots like never before but at the same time, I'm nervous before every class because I care so much about what I'm trying to teach. I work full time and have a family so all the younger guys at the dojo have more time to give to jiu jitsu and sometimes I doubt myself because of that. Brown belt absolutely IS the pressure belt. Emotional and physical pressure. I feel the positive progression in my game and teaching is helping a great deal. I am definitely on my way to my black belt but I also realize jiu jitsu is a lot like music. A human lifetime is not actually long enough to truly master it. You can get really really good but, never truly master it. I'm certainly loving the ride and doing my best. Thanks again for this video.

[ConveyApp]

Thank you so much for this video. I received my purple belt this year. There is almost nothing on what it takes to get your brown belt. Anyways I’m 43 yr old, 5’5”, 165lb guy. I started instructing at (3) striped blue belt during the open mat. I only would teach things I was absolutely confident in and could actually pull off in a live roll. I’m very fortunate in regards to my 20+ year career. I train autistic children from 2-12 years old how to communicate, and other essential behavioral skills utilizing applied behavior analysis. About 8 months ago my BJJ understanding and skills with my career merged. I could be considered an expert in human behavior modification. Instructing in this way has been incredibly effective with my newer students. Also in my own training I noticed that my inner dialogue kicks in, as almost a coaching voice, on self correction of my techniques real time. This has only started after I begun instructing and becoming very familiar with each important detail of every technique I train. My primary instruction/teaching method has a few components. First I will only utilize the techniques taught in class to show how and that they work as drilled. Secondly I will give a lot of resistance to each poorly made decision and almost no resistance to correct decisions and proper technique to each student. So mild punishment for wrong decisions, and positive reinforcement to correct decisions during live rolling. Now I get a lot of my lower ranking teammates, mid blue belts and high level whites trying to get their blue belt, noticing my improvement and skill increases over the last 6-8 months. They are coming and asking me what they should do to improve. My first response is for them to request if they can volunteer in the kids class. That actively requires them break down of a technique in all of it’s important components and communicate it to a 8 yr old clearly and effectively will improve your skills.

[peacenik]

"You teach best that which you most need to learn" - Richard Bach.
Thanks for the wisdom and the series. As an older guy, I really benefit from it.

[SamuraiKidMusic]

great vid. Mikey Musumesi added leg locks as a key learning objective at brown belt; perhaps this is a more modern approach to brown belt.

[danielskrivan]

I'm a white belt in BJJ, but I've taught other martial arts. What you're saying about teaching has absolutely been my experience. I made all of the mistakes you said new teachers make.

[knotsinallthings]

Great video! Got my brown belt a month and a half ago... at purple I felt like I had to really fight for every sub, and did not like to lose rounds. At brown belt, I have found that opening up, avoiding my bread and butter, and trying new things has really helped me enter a phase of enjoying every roll so much and spending more time being creative. Wonderful explanation here... cheers from California!

[DonGately]

9:59 "cluster" is definitely the word. 😄Thanks Coach.

[Petestanton]

As a new black belt this breakdown 109% concurs with my personal experience,
Thanks Rick.

[richardcranston]

I love to use positional holding to cause a opening to transition. I believe that your game changes and adapts with you are rolling with or competing against. Some days your a BJJ guy, some days your a judoka and others a wrestler. Brown belt I feel your learning to form your way of teaching and your way of grappling. This is where you fine tune your game and become you. This is where it’s harder on a technical level and start researching other ideas and concepts.

[FR-tyvn]

Beautifully explained - old 3 stripe purple belt about to turn 57 - Coach told me brown belt is approaching - this was very helpful advice ❤

[tomasmorriello]

BJJ is for me like training to be a chef. You learn your skills and basics then you develop your cooking style, when you become a chef you really start going into the depth of the art of cooking and even after a lifetime of learning you still don't know every recipe available.

[juliand]

I just got my Brown belt a few months ago and I’ve never really taught a formal class, I’ve always helped people and gave tips.

I’ve always had a vision of owning my own school one day. So I’d like to start teaching but I’m pretty intimidated by it. I do like what you’re saying about information overload because that’s one thing I’ve always hated. So I do like that style of simple and effective details.

[alfredomartinez]

Hello this was an excellent explanation about the levels of bjj color’s belts, especiffic on brown belt, nice one, and thank you so much for all this information

[Patrick-sheen]

In langauge teaching the great Stephen Krashen talks about Comprehensible Input. Basically, when the information is being transmitted is too complex or too easy, the language student is NOT learning. He talks about the language needing to be slightly above their level for them to be stressed enough to adapt to it, but also not so much that it is unattainable. The same applies to the teaching of Jiu Jitsu and probably any other skill.