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Originally Posted by AJL416AZ
the real BJJ belt system:
white, blue, purple, brown, black
if you're in a BJJ gym, and they claim to be official, and use more colors, they are full of shit.
and it takes on average, 2-3 years of consistent training to get a blue belt, 5-6 for a purple, and 8-9 for a brown, much more for a black. this is just what i have heard, and everyone has their own learning speed, so you could be a blue in a year or 5.
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Sounds a bit long to me. Most guys at my gym reach blue belt in 6-12 months. Blue to purple can certainly take years. One of my other instructors I believe achieved his black belt in 7 or 8 years, but it sounds like he was a bit of a prodigy, picking things up faster than average. Hereis what Wikipedia says regarding the yellow, orange, and green belts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj#Graduation
Some schools use slightly different belt systems, such as having more colored belts before blue belt, but the above are the only widely accepted ranks as they are the standards for tournaments. There are minimum age requirements for belt promotions. Blue belts are never awarded to anyone under the age of 16. For promotion to black belt the minimum age is 19 years old according to the main regulating body of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the International Federation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.