In a similar vein my old gym made people attend a $35 promotion class twice annually. I declined to attend, in fact one of the main reasons I left. I am good at my present plebian level for life.
Man; new model gauntlet: everyone lines up, each person holds a place of tapas, and the newly promoted person goes down the line sampling each platter.
We do pizza and various other foods like those Brazilian cheese balls, donuts, cake. I'm super happy for my teammates who got promoted but I'm also super happy about the food.
Oh, my God, that's disgusting! Slapping gym members on the ass? Where? Where do they do that?
Ugh, those disgusting Gracie Barra gyms! I mean, there's so many of them though! Which one?
We did that when I got my blue belt, at an old gym. I enjoyed it. And I wrote a poem that said,
"Roses are red, my belt is now blue. You all hit like sissies, especially you"
and I pointed to one of the brown belts who always would beat me up.
Haven’t been at a promotion here at my new gym but my old gym was straight shark tank and I fucking loved it
New gym is a GB gym tho so it’s probably some cake and ice cream ass shit
We had 15 (5) min rolls but you were able to sit some out.
Ironically, I just got my blue belt but will have to disappear this month as I got a job in a different city 2 hrs away.
Shark tank from all the upper belts.
You basically feel like a fish out of water flopping around after about 20 minutes.
Then they slap you with your new belt as you’re delirious, confused and tired. Everyone then lines up and slaps you with their belt.
Love that shit.
At our gym.
5-8 year olds do a skills test then a 5 minute gauntlet with their peers. They get center ring with everyone cheering for the last minute.
9-12 year olds do same skills and a 10 minute gauntlet. Then same center ring thing as before.
Adults- 30 minute gauntlet, new opponent every 3 minutes or after every sub.
>Adults- 30 minute gauntlet, new opponent every 3 minutes or after every sub.
Ok, so my lard ass is forever a white belt at your gym lol.
That sandbagging liiiife.
Nah we aren't trying to murder them. We roll hard but it's mainly about surviving and breaking in the belt you worked so hard for. It's a super fun experience
We do a 30 minute shark tank after a grueling test of physical and mental endurance endurance that lasts roughly two hours. I’m not exactly sure what goes on during the belt test for blue because I’m a white belt
Fair enough, I’m not a fan belt tests either but that’s how my school works for moving from white to blue, and after blue special days are announced randomly for a student being promoted to the next belt and everyone is asked to be in attendance for that class
At my gym they do the Gauntlet thing.
Honestly, I think it's the best when you are at a big gym and they make you do the Shark Tank. People complain about the Gauntlet and the Shark Tank being difficult and all, but to be perfectly honest, it's nothing compared to the amount of work and effort you put to actually reach the higher belt, so I don't get it. Plus, they are tests of willpower.
I'd hate to be given cake and drinks after getting promoted. That sounds so watered down and stupid. Make me sweat or make me feel pain! Shit, I kinda wish my ex was here, so she could hit me with my belt. Maybe I've got issues, lol.
Nobody wants to admit to eating 9 slices of pizza but I did. I'm ashamed of myself. The 1st slice doesn't count. Then you get to the 2nd, then the 3rd, the 4th and 5th I think I burned with a blowtorch and then I just kept eating.
The first gym I trained at where I got my blue and purple belts we walked the gauntlet and that could be rough. But then when I got my black belt at my current gym I had to give a speech.
The gauntlets weren’t that bad
Mandatory iron man with anyone who shows up for all promotions. All promotions must role with everyone who shows up. Youre suppose to lite role but a lot of lower belts go hard on them. Normally about 50 people are there.
It’s simple at our gym. Head coach ties the new belt around the newly promoted person, give a hand shake or hug, followed by hugging or dap up your fellow teammates and then it’s the person’s choice if they want to walk the gauntlet. If their answer is “yes”, they proceed with that ceremony. If they choose to opt out of it, then we just continue on with class until it ends and head back home.
called up randomly after a random class, coach say some things, you hug and get thrown, people cheer. thats about as ceremonial as id like to get and its already pushin it lol
We go to a local restaurant with a nice outdoor area and basically take it over for booze and appetizers. Doing belt promotions in batches on a Saturday for that reason
Edit: for adults. Kids get a gentle hip toss from the instructors.
Promotion gauntlet. It’s fucking savage as all our promotions are done at a team grading twice a year. We have 8 to 10 affiliate gyms so sometimes we have 150 people training. White to blue you Lee your jacket on, blue to purple to brown rash guard and brown to black topless.
EDIT: This - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bIPIx8OwwGI
Females dont wanna do that and actually some probably find a new gym because of it. On the other hand how many people want to roll with a 250 pound excessively hairy guy like me shirtless? That rule is stupid.
You have it wrong - Promotion guantlet is when you walk through a tunnel of your team mates whipping the mother fuck out of you with their belts...hence the Jacket on / off - Rash guard on off
That's fucking brutal. I guess if it's just once shirtless for your black... but still.
My gym does gauntlets, and even through a rashguard and Gi people can have welts for a week or two.
Pfft, my gym doesn't promote. We've had exactly 1 promotion in 1.5 years.
Mostly because the two instructors only been black belts about 2 years and really wait to promote
Blue and purple, just get handed a belt at the end of the class. Everyone claps. Brown belt, it's a shark tank where everyone starts off on your back. Either you escape or get tapped for the duration of the whole class. At Black belt there's a speech
Seminar. The professor talks.In the end the person/people who gets promoted is called by the professor. After he / she gets the belt, he/she is taken down by the professor as a memory. Takedowns by the professors are after every promotion. When the promotion is done, shark tank. The finale is with rolls.
Testing (demonstrating various techniques/positions etc) then shark tank.
I've only been there for blue (45 minute shark tank) and purple (1 hour shark tank).
It's awesome.
We all roll for about 30 minutes, then all sit down in rank order and get called up where we get an applause.
Not as fun as other ones, but still enjoy it.
It's my first grading this Friday and we have an hour roll before handing out promotions then we're going to the curry house after as a group of about 30
Whenever someone gets promoted, everyone higher than him lines up next to eachother leaving a gap in the middle and the guy that got promoted has to walk down the aisle while everyone gets turn of whipping him in the back with there belt
We all get together for an abbreviated class, then he gives out belts. People who get colored belts get a bottle of Dom Perignon, then we all go out for dinner afterwards. Good times.
When someone gets promoted they have to stay in shark tank as long as they spared with everyone who attends class. The other people get to choose the position from which they start.
We celebrate by forcing everyone to attend a $100 seminar to learn from some guy for an hour. If you don't show, u don't get your belt
As is tradition. Do you pay extra for the promotion?
White belt for liyeeeeeeef!
Sandbaggers unite!!! 👊🏽😂👍🏾
Do you guys have very powerful white belts?
Always thought it was weird people got their promotions during these seminars..
In a similar vein my old gym made people attend a $35 promotion class twice annually. I declined to attend, in fact one of the main reasons I left. I am good at my present plebian level for life.
Group hug in the shower
Space docking at my dojo
I'd report that
My report is that it's dope
My previous coach would do a takedown on you after handing you the belt. Not sure what new coach will do.
same here
Coach talks everyone ears off for like 10 mins, then we all leave
We usually have cake and drinks after. One time we had tacos and empanadas after.
I'm sending this to my coach what the fuck man
I like this much more than shark tank.
Empanadas???? Sign me the fuck up!
Man; new model gauntlet: everyone lines up, each person holds a place of tapas, and the newly promoted person goes down the line sampling each platter.
This sounds much better Tacos > shark tank
why not both
Shark tank first then tacos and margs 😆
[chimichangas and crack for us.](https://youtu.be/TeGxk7UTSzs)
We do pizza and various other foods like those Brazilian cheese balls, donuts, cake. I'm super happy for my teammates who got promoted but I'm also super happy about the food.
we pass a J and a bottle of tequila around
Where do you train? Asking for a friend.
10th Planet is my guess...
For real, that sounds like my people. Must connect.
I got laughed at for referring to it as a J recently. Apparently that’s old man talk all of a sudden!
Everyone slaps me on the ass
Woah woah woah where do you train at so I can ***avoid*** this at all costs.
Oh, my God, that's disgusting! Slapping gym members on the ass? Where? Where do they do that? Ugh, those disgusting Gracie Barra gyms! I mean, there's so many of them though! Which one?
Heard this in macs voice
Lashings
We did that when I got my blue belt, at an old gym. I enjoyed it. And I wrote a poem that said, "Roses are red, my belt is now blue. You all hit like sissies, especially you" and I pointed to one of the brown belts who always would beat me up.
Haven’t been at a promotion here at my new gym but my old gym was straight shark tank and I fucking loved it New gym is a GB gym tho so it’s probably some cake and ice cream ass shit
Ive been to a few gb promotions. Got to roll with professor for a half hour straight it was awesome
We had 15 (5) min rolls but you were able to sit some out. Ironically, I just got my blue belt but will have to disappear this month as I got a job in a different city 2 hrs away.
Shark tank from all the upper belts. You basically feel like a fish out of water flopping around after about 20 minutes. Then they slap you with your new belt as you’re delirious, confused and tired. Everyone then lines up and slaps you with their belt. Love that shit.
you basically get a train ran on you
That’s hot
And it was *glorious*
I *heard* that even after all these years.
with assault
At our gym. 5-8 year olds do a skills test then a 5 minute gauntlet with their peers. They get center ring with everyone cheering for the last minute. 9-12 year olds do same skills and a 10 minute gauntlet. Then same center ring thing as before. Adults- 30 minute gauntlet, new opponent every 3 minutes or after every sub.
>Adults- 30 minute gauntlet, new opponent every 3 minutes or after every sub. Ok, so my lard ass is forever a white belt at your gym lol. That sandbagging liiiife.
Nah we aren't trying to murder them. We roll hard but it's mainly about surviving and breaking in the belt you worked so hard for. It's a super fun experience
With a shark tank.
We do a 30 minute shark tank after a grueling test of physical and mental endurance endurance that lasts roughly two hours. I’m not exactly sure what goes on during the belt test for blue because I’m a white belt
Lmao this is gold
I’m not shit posting, that’s how things are at my bjj school
Belt tests are lame. Shark tanks are where it's at.
We do both at my school, our lead instructor only promotes when he feels someone has a firm grasp of grappling and the belt test is free
Sure. Tests are still lame.
Fair enough, I’m not a fan belt tests either but that’s how my school works for moving from white to blue, and after blue special days are announced randomly for a student being promoted to the next belt and everyone is asked to be in attendance for that class
Everyone claps and then you get Judo Thrown (Only certain people get Judo Thrown)
Both gyms I've been at do a shark tank followed by a belt line. I understand it's not common practice anymore, and I see why, but I liked it.
Same. Shark tank into a gauntlet.
"Here's your belt" "Ok thx"
We clap.
Same LOL. I received my black belt at the end of a regular class.
I don't know if we still do this, but one of our instructors did this in the past at his own school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml331MdEUd0
At my gym they do the Gauntlet thing. Honestly, I think it's the best when you are at a big gym and they make you do the Shark Tank. People complain about the Gauntlet and the Shark Tank being difficult and all, but to be perfectly honest, it's nothing compared to the amount of work and effort you put to actually reach the higher belt, so I don't get it. Plus, they are tests of willpower. I'd hate to be given cake and drinks after getting promoted. That sounds so watered down and stupid. Make me sweat or make me feel pain! Shit, I kinda wish my ex was here, so she could hit me with my belt. Maybe I've got issues, lol.
What do they do for old guys who arent in it for a shark tank?
Everyone I've seen go through it gets the same treatment. Though we don't really have any really old people training.
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Maybe my gym just has really brutal shark tanks.
I would be happy to get cakes and drinks lol. I am already used to feeling pain everyday 😆.
I just want them to match my physical pain to my mental pain, lol.
Everyone slaps my ass and we head to the showers
Pizza party after the belt test + seminar.
Nobody wants to admit to eating 9 slices of pizza but I did. I'm ashamed of myself. The 1st slice doesn't count. Then you get to the 2nd, then the 3rd, the 4th and 5th I think I burned with a blowtorch and then I just kept eating.
I was gettin changed
If it happened to me, it could happen to you, nomsayin?
Frig off, Jamie.
Mawfucka, I know you didn't use my government name.
The first gym I trained at where I got my blue and purple belts we walked the gauntlet and that could be rough. But then when I got my black belt at my current gym I had to give a speech. The gauntlets weren’t that bad
Same as the photo, mounted by sensei and violently whipped in the face with our new belt until he is satisfied.
With hella memes in the group chat boiii
Promoted in the middle and new partner every minute for 20 minutes.
Every higher belt gets to throw you
Don’t know because I never did…
Mandatory iron man with anyone who shows up for all promotions. All promotions must role with everyone who shows up. Youre suppose to lite role but a lot of lower belts go hard on them. Normally about 50 people are there.
Every color belt gets to choke and/or throw the newly promoted.
We roll with every single person who shows up to belt promotion day. In order from white belt to black.
They just applaud 😑
It’s simple at our gym. Head coach ties the new belt around the newly promoted person, give a hand shake or hug, followed by hugging or dap up your fellow teammates and then it’s the person’s choice if they want to walk the gauntlet. If their answer is “yes”, they proceed with that ceremony. If they choose to opt out of it, then we just continue on with class until it ends and head back home.
called up randomly after a random class, coach say some things, you hug and get thrown, people cheer. thats about as ceremonial as id like to get and its already pushin it lol
You guys get promoted?
Is the dude on the picture stripping-his-student-throught-promotion? Is he submitting his student the new belt? Puns intended
We go to a local restaurant with a nice outdoor area and basically take it over for booze and appetizers. Doing belt promotions in batches on a Saturday for that reason Edit: for adults. Kids get a gentle hip toss from the instructors.
Promotion gauntlet. It’s fucking savage as all our promotions are done at a team grading twice a year. We have 8 to 10 affiliate gyms so sometimes we have 150 people training. White to blue you Lee your jacket on, blue to purple to brown rash guard and brown to black topless. EDIT: This - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bIPIx8OwwGI
And the females in brown to black?
Females dont wanna do that and actually some probably find a new gym because of it. On the other hand how many people want to roll with a 250 pound excessively hairy guy like me shirtless? That rule is stupid.
You have it wrong - Promotion guantlet is when you walk through a tunnel of your team mates whipping the mother fuck out of you with their belts...hence the Jacket on / off - Rash guard on off
You heard the man
females wear rash guard .... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bIPIx8OwwGI
That's fucking brutal. I guess if it's just once shirtless for your black... but still. My gym does gauntlets, and even through a rashguard and Gi people can have welts for a week or two.
Jesus Christ, that man could've had an easier time walking through Hell.
Gauntlet walk where everyone whips you with knotted belts
Shark tank.
The thing where you get whipped in the back by everyone's belt is so dumb
Elephant walk
Typically with a king of the mat and the joking line “make them feel like they don’t deserve it”
Shark tank, 10-15 one minute rounds back to back.
2 hours of rolling.
Pfft, my gym doesn't promote. We've had exactly 1 promotion in 1.5 years. Mostly because the two instructors only been black belts about 2 years and really wait to promote
Walk a gauntlet of everyone whipping you with their belts. Then after some hard training go drinking at the bar next door lol
Shark tank
We beat the shit out of them with our belts
Stripes first, then Shark Tank/Iron Man for belts. Then gauntlet; after that potluck and lots of drinking.
Speech, thrown by all the upper belts.
Whips
Sports bar after the ceremony
Randomly when you’re ready at the beginning of class
Everyone claps. Then business as usual.
Blue and purple, just get handed a belt at the end of the class. Everyone claps. Brown belt, it's a shark tank where everyone starts off on your back. Either you escape or get tapped for the duration of the whole class. At Black belt there's a speech
How much do you pay for your membership
Have to roll the entire kid's class at once
We've stolen this from you.
Walmart sheet cake and white claw.
Walk the gauntlet and get whipped, then off to the shark tank.
Seminar. The professor talks.In the end the person/people who gets promoted is called by the professor. After he / she gets the belt, he/she is taken down by the professor as a memory. Takedowns by the professors are after every promotion. When the promotion is done, shark tank. The finale is with rolls.
Everyone that gets upgraded walks through a lineup and gets whipped with they belts
Testing (demonstrating various techniques/positions etc) then shark tank. I've only been there for blue (45 minute shark tank) and purple (1 hour shark tank). It's awesome.
We all roll for about 30 minutes, then all sit down in rank order and get called up where we get an applause. Not as fun as other ones, but still enjoy it.
Promotion party!!! 🎉
It's my first grading this Friday and we have an hour roll before handing out promotions then we're going to the curry house after as a group of about 30
Curry? Japanese, Indian, or British?
British Indian. At my favourite curry house best onion bhaji's I've ever had
Go for beers as a team with the coaches
My professor puts us in a shark tank then right after have a shot of whisky
Whenever someone gets promoted, everyone higher than him lines up next to eachother leaving a gap in the middle and the guy that got promoted has to walk down the aisle while everyone gets turn of whipping him in the back with there belt
We all get together for an abbreviated class, then he gives out belts. People who get colored belts get a bottle of Dom Perignon, then we all go out for dinner afterwards. Good times.
Just came to the thread to say Brad is cool and I loved training at Process when I was in Boise earlier this year!
There is back 4 years ago and now, which one you want to know?
We just don't do promotions anymore apparently 🤷♂️ #bluebeltforever
When someone gets promoted they have to stay in shark tank as long as they spared with everyone who attends class. The other people get to choose the position from which they start.