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Originally posted by Juice Junkie
Because we fight in a mixed system, 3 days a week in the Brazilian system and 2 days a week in a mixed NHB system they felt they needed to have different levels in between white and blue. A traditional brazilian system still has the same rankings it just goes white, white1, white2, white3 then blue. Ours uses White, Yellow, Orange, Green, then blue. We just use colors in place of the 1,2 or 3 ranking. When we compete in Brazilian competitions though we wear a white belt unless we are blue or up.
gotcha, that makes sense now...