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Thats how it should be. If a person walks in with a BB from somewhere else you say ok no problem you just have to learn the curriculum. I guess thats why I never took a BJJ class. Cause they want you to start as a white belt and I always say no.Sure. Sort of. They'd still have to learn the entire curriculum from white belt, but if they wanted to wear their belt from their other system, that's fine.
Thats how it should be. If a person walks in with a BB from somewhere else you say ok no problem you just have to learn the curriculum. I guess thats why I never took a BJJ class. Cause they want you to start as a white belt and I always say no.
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Nah.....I was taught it don't work like that. I've trained in Kung Fu and Aikido and none of them asked me to wear a white belt. They excepted me as I am.BJJ is an entirely different style. You should start there as a white belt, because your TKD training will provide little or no help there.
What we're talking about here is if, say, you wanted to join a KKW school. You'd have to learn the Taegeuk forms and Olympic-style sparring, but your general knowledge of TKD would carry over, so if you applied yourself you could probably be ready to test for KKW 1st dan in a matter of months.
If you want to learn new stuff it's best to adopt the white belt mindset of being hungry for knowledge. Watching an interview with the Gracies discussing Rhonda Rousey's training with them, they lauded her for being a Black Belt with a white Belt mind set.
People may accept you as whatever. However, if you want to impress upon them that you are there to learn and your cup is empty, show up with a white belt on and let them tell you to where something else.
Thats how it should be. If a person walks in with a BB from somewhere else you say ok no problem you just have to learn the curriculum. I guess thats why I never took a BJJ class. Cause they want you to start as a white belt and I always say no.
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I trained with Saotome in Aikido and he told me that I was a white belt in his system but that doesnt that my skills are null and void. But they excepted me as a black belt and recognized me as a black belt even though I was at a white belt level. I didnt walk around with a chip on my shoulder cause I knew that they had something I could learn. Im not denying that I would have a white belt level skills in BJJ if I took the class. Of course I would. But again that dosent negate all the years of training that I have accumulated to get my black belt. I dont care about BJJ. Im not impress by BJJ. I dont have to go to the ground to defeat a person. But anyway.......I think that since azulx has a TKD avatar, is asking in the TKD sub-forum, and practices TKD, we've pretty much been responding to the inherent implication that the question related to people transferring between different TKD systems.
Were I to be a student in a totally unrelated art, such as BJJ, I would feel quite the fool wearing my TKD rank. Because there is simply no way in hell I could perform at that level of skill in a system so totally removed from TKD.
When I started joined the Moo Duk Kwan, I strapped on a white belt, even though both Master Valdez and the KJN said it wasn't necessary. For the same reason. I'd feel a fool standing up in the top ranks when I didn't know the curriculum for this system. Sure, since I was coming from a related background, it didn't take long to learn the curriculum, but as I've said many times, I'd rather wear a white belt and have people wonder why than wear a black belt and have people wonder why.
As I said, we will allow transfer students to wear their rank from other systems, if it makes them feel better. But it's been my personal experience that those who do so tend to have too much ego invested in that belt. Let's face it, when you go to a BJJ class, you are a white belt, regardless of what your ego tells you.
I can sort of see it, when they're transferring from a closely related system (say, ATA or ITF TKD), but certainly not if they are coming from something as totally different as BJJ.
Nah. Kusanku, Sa Bang Kwon and Chinto.@Kinghercules are you doing Po-eun Hyung in your profile picture?