Curriculum
White to Blue belt
Learn to survive, escape and understand the positions. A blue belt can't easily be held down or submitted by beginners, knows what they want in every position, and has a few moves that work in live rolls.
Typically 1.5–3 years of steady training; often closer to 3 at 2 sessions a week.
What coaches look for
- Escape mount, side control and the back against a same-size white belt going hard
- Survive rounds with higher belts without getting tapped every time
- Know every position on the flow map and your goal in each
- Pass the guard one reliable way and hold side control
- Sweep or come up from half guard against resistance
- Finish 2–3 submissions in live rolls
- Defend leg locks safely: hide the heel, clear the knee line, tap early
- Train consistently and be a safe, controlled partner
How to get there faster
- Defense first: survival is what coaches look at most
- Pick one game plan and run it every roll for a month
- Log every session so your weak spots show up
- Ask your coach directly what they want to see from you
The 74 techniques
Guard
Sweep
Pass
Escape
- Sprawl
- Technical stand-up
- Side control escape: frame & re-guard
- Side control escape: underhook to knees
- Trap & roll (upa)
- Elbow-knee escape (shrimp)
- Back escape
- Turtle: defend & recover guard
- Front headlock & guillotine defense
- Leg lock defense
- Knee on belly escape
- North-south escape
- Stopping the back take from turtle or a scramble
- Mount defense: protect your neck and arms
Defense
- Armbar defense: closed guard and mount
- Triangle defense
- Kimura and americana defense
- Arm triangle defense
- Rear-naked choke defense
- Guillotine defense: in their guard and standing
- D'Arce and anaconda defense
- Straight ankle lock defense
- North-south choke defense
- Single-leg defense: whizzer, hip pressure and limp leg
- Double-leg defense: downblock and sprawl
- Knee cut defense: knee shield and underhook
- Body lock pass defense
Control
Submission
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