![]() We are free to represent any (or no) team in competition.We don’t pay each other any affiliation fees. ![]() ![]() What are the requirements for being an individual member? Just fill out this form and we will get back to you shortly. BJJ Globetrotters is a huge community and you are free to use it in however way it suits you exactly! Some use it for finding training partners or instructors, some as their team for competitions, some for finding connections for traveling, some for opening their homes and inviting people to visit and train with them. Some use it as a traditional affiliation as individuals or academies. Our members use the BJJ Globetrotters for a widely different things. We are all equal on and off the mat, so we don’t follow one specific person, professor or lineage. It was created by Christian Graugart, the author of “ The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Globetrotter“.īJJ Globetrotters is a collection of people, who believe in the same set of values. The members are not following a single person, “professor” or lineage, so in a way, all the members are behind this. ![]() To those who feel frustrated at not receiving an expected promotion, just keep training.A community of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners of all levels from around the world, who agree on spreading a message of a non-political, open minded and positive approach to training and life. Those same students then resolved to train with renewed enthusiasm so they could feel worthy of their new level. I have never seen a student refuse a promotion, but I have seen plenty leave class with a fresh stripe of tape on their belts and a big smile. To those who dig in their heels and loudly pronounce that they don’t care if they’re promoted, I respond that while that may be the proper spirit for learning BJJ, it is not normal and there is nothing wrong with wanting to have some sort of way to measure and recognize progress. “That is why most computer applications have a progress bar: progress is super important to most people!” they said. They were studying the best ways for businesses to reward employees for the greatest performance, and they said that positive reinforcements were an important motivating factor for most people. I had an interesting conversation with two university graduate students studying human motivational psychology for application in big industry. The truth is that most of us are motivated by the next stripe and belt, and this is entirely natural. Unfortunately, if he had just been a little more patient, he would have gotten his belt two weeks later when the other promotions were conducted. ![]() I even saw one talented guy quit a gym angrily when he didn’t receive the blue belt he thought he was going to get. I have witnessed more than one student leave an academy with his head hanging low after not receiving an expected promotion. In the vast majority of these cases, it was simply a matter of the student not training consistently enough. This is the culturally-acceptable, appropriately-humble, and proper answer.īut given that we are human beings with egos, a desire for progress, and a drive to achieve our goals, it is probably not an honest one. When it comes to the discussion of promotions, BJJ guys are supposed to say, “Belts don’t matter to me. ![]()
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