Path to Brown Belt 

Purple belt – 1st Degree 

Self defense

  • Technical stand up 
  • Two wrist releases
  • Three punch and hand strike defenses 
  • Three kick defenses
  • Three ways to defend the guillotine standing up 
  • Four ways to defend the headlock standing up 
  • Three ways to defend the guillotine on the ground 
  • Four ways to defend the headlock on the ground 

Escapes

  • Four ways to escape the mount 
  • Four ways to escape side control 
  • Four ways to escape the rear mount 
  • Four ways to escape the knee on belly position 

Purple belt – 2nd Degree

Throws and Takedowns

  • Three single legs 
  • Three double legs 
  • Two leg throws
  • Four hip throws
  • Two sacrifice throws  

Sweeps from the guard

  • 10 different ways to sweep your opponent 

Purple belt – 3rd degree

Guard passing 

  • Ten different ways to pass various guards and get to side control/cross side with effective control 

Submissions 

  • Seven from the mount 
  • Seven from the guard 

Purple belt – 4th degree

Half guard: 

  • Three sweeps from the bottom half guard position 
  • Three half guard pass 

Submissions: 

  • Six double attack/chain attack 
  • Six from side control 
  • Six submissions from rear/back mount 
  • Four knee on belly