White Belt First Stripe Requirements

White Belt First Stripe

Science of Jiu Jitsu Team Blue Belt Requirements Program 

developed by professor Mario Rodríguez.

 

For being awarded your first stripe in the white belt you should have attended 25 classes and completed the Fundamentals Program.

You should also complete a quizz that evaluates your knowledge about the following topics.

 

Click in each topic for knowing more

Organizational and Historical Aspects

• Brazilian Jiu Jitsu History
  
• Meaning of Jiu Jitsu(Jiu Jitsu means "Gentle Art"
  
• Differences between Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Japanese Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling and contact Martial Arts.
• Knowing the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Institutional Structure.
• Knowing Team history and the Professor lineage.
• Why the Name of the Team: Science of Jiu Jitsu.
• Knowing the fundamental aspects of the AOC Jiu Jitsu Team History.
• Knowing the brazilian jiu jitsu belts.
• Knowing the professor criteria for graduation.
• Knowing how and when does team graduation take place.
• Know the class basic etiquette.
• Know how the sparring and competition fights begin.
• Know how to tap in sparring.
• Knowing the forbidden submissions in the classes.
• Knowing the forbidden submissions for different levels in competition.
• Know about the philosophy of BJJ applied to self defense.
• Differences between sport BJJ and BJJ applied to personal defense.
• Knowing the basic functioning of BJJ competition (Start of the fight, Winner decision, duration of fights, categories, etc)
• Knowing the differences between gi and no gi.

Technical Area

• Knowing the 4 main scenarios and goals for each of them in brazilian jiu jitsu sparring.
• Knowing the fundamental offensive positions in brazilian jiu jitsu (name them and execute them)
• Knowing the positional hierarchy and the positional transitions

Basic Movements

In the article The Fundamental movements of brazilian jiu jitsu you will find links to videos of the following movements. They are in the foundation of techniques, positions and transitions in the main areas oj jiu jitsu and are critical for injury prevention.

• Backward fall break
• Side Fall break
• Front fall break
• Shrimp
• Reverse Shrimp
• Shrimp and going to fours
• Bridge and to fours
• Technical Lift
• Side scissors to the knees
• Hip thrusts
• Box Sitouts
• Backward roll
• Front roll
• Side control transition from side to side (360)
• Inversion drill