

Once you earn all four stripes on your blue belt, you will qualify to test for purple belt at Gracie University HQ or one of many Certified Training Centers around the world. Brazilian/Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Destin is the premier facility for self defense and. An unintended by-product of this development was a shift from jiu-jitsu for self-defense purposes to sport.

Upon perfecting all the techniques in a given stripe course, you will test for a stripe promotion via the video evaluation process. Its official, the first chapter of the Blue Belt Stripe 2 (BBS2) curriculum is now available to all Gracie University students. In 1967, under Grand Master Helio Gracie’s guidance, jiu-jitsu practitioners established the first Federation of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil to host recreational competitions in which they could test their self-defense skills in a safe setting. The Master Cycle lessons use the same “Technique Slicing” strategy found in the Gracie Combatives course, but, due to the complexity of the techniques, we use a revolutionary training exercise called Rapid Mastery Drills along with a variety of Focus Sparring exercises to internalize the techniques and develop reflexes at the end of each class. The Master Cycle is broken down into three levels, one for each belt after blue (purple, brown and black), and promotion to each new belt level requires successful completion of four stripe courses each of which features 60 lessons which are broken down into seven positional chapters. He is certified under Ryron and Rener Gracie to teach all of the acclaimed Gracie curriculums including Gracie Combatives, BullyProof for kids, and Master Cycle. Nearly all of these schools claimed to teach the same jiu-jitsu that Grand Master Helio Gracie had created and Royce employed in the UFC.

Beyond Gracie Combatives belt, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu consists of hundreds of advanced techniques, all of which have been organized into a clearly defined, systematic curriculum called the Master Cycle®. The influx of sport jiu-jitsu instructors, many of whom were members of the very large extended Gracie family, led to the establishment of numerous jiu-jitsu schools all across the United States.
