To achieve an elite standard of personal performance usually requires a fair amount of natural ability, motivation and commitment. It does not follow that an elite martial artist also has the ability to pass those skills on to others at all levels. In fact, the opposite is usually true. To become an elite performer usually means that the student has natural ability and therefore learns skills quickly and easily. A great degree of self-motivation and commitment is also required and such performers generally find little difficulty in applying themselves to the rigors of training, grading and competition. Since very few students achieve such high levels of performance, too often a coach does not understand the needs of these "lesser mortals" who are in fact the majority. When one looks at specific groups such as junior, female, male, elderly, competitive, aggressive, shy, introverted, or combinations of these, many martial arts coaches in the past have been- to say the least- underprepared. Tony Gummerson, "Teaching Martial Arts"
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From Jiu Jitsu Forums, written by BJJMark95:
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The bjj ranking system is like cooking a steak...
White Belt: The tendorizing process
At white belt, you are essentially a fresh piece of meat that is going to get beaten to death with a tendorizer. You think at so many points that you are starting to figure the stuff out but you are so very wrong. The beating or "tendorizing" just keeps coming until you finally realize that you know absolutly nothing and that its time for you to start learning. At this point, you are perfectly tendorized and ready for the next step...
Blue Belt: The marinating process
At blue belt, you are so broken down from white belt and are perfectly tender and ready to be marinated. Now you can pick your favorite kind of marinate (for me its a bock beer and Stubs barbaque sauce as far as a steak goes) and you will just have to sit in it for a while. Everyone who knows how to cook a good steak knows this is the longest stage in the whole process. It can take hours and even overnight (in the steak process) but the more you marinate the steak the better it is going to taste. At blue belt, you absorb so much knowledge. This is the belt where you truly learn jiu-jitsu. It is here where you are going to be exposed to all the different types of games and techniques that are out there. You are going to be a blue belt for quite some time but dont let that discourage you... You are being marinated! The longer you marinate the better off you are going to be in the end! Once you are done marinating for a good amount of time you are ready for the next stage.
Purple Belt: Getting thrown on the grill
At purple belt, it is like you are ready to be thrown on the gril. You have learned and been exposed to so many different things that it is now time to start working on them to make them better. It is here that you are starting to figure things out. It is also here that we can have a good guess about how you are going to turn out but it can still change. You are no where close to being done, but you are quite on your way. Once you have seared for a little while... its time to moved on.
Brown Belt : Getting turned
At brown belt, you are ready to be turned on the grill. If you were on the first side for the right amount of time, you will have perfect chared diamonds on you, but again, you are not fully done yet. At brown belt, you may be only ready to go in certain spots, but you are not fully a black belt yet as you still have a few areas that you need to finish up on or cook all the way through. This is quite an important step in the process as well because if you come off the grill too early, you could taste funny and not be where you want to be. Once you have had a chance to cook all the way through, then its time for the final stage.
Black Belt: The Fully Cooked Steak
At black belt, you are now ready to be taken off the grill. You should be cooked all the way through and be just right. At black belt, you have a complete game. You are quite knowledgable in all areas of the game and have a few parts that you are exceptional at... Just as a steak has a few parts that are exceptionally juicy and delicious, but all of the steak is still good. Finally, throughout the black belt, you still are not done learning. You will always continue to learn and grow. I refer to this as the "seasoning" of the steak. Even though the steak is fully done and delicious, you can always add some seasoning or some BBQ sauce or butter or what have you to make it that much better. This is the continued learning process that comes with being a black belt.
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Saturday FOD: Spear Hand fragment
Sunday FOD: Plum Blossom Fist fragments
Monday FOD: Five Animals
Tuesday FOD: Frolic Of the Five Animals
Wednesday FOD: Southern Mantis long form fragment
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