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i think for the most part, the advice i am getting from the upper belts is the same as elbows and knees. Jay, Im not avoiding a belt test so that i can go "easily" compete at the white belt level. Like i said, i have very little experience competing and have never wrestled or anything like that. Yes i am really dissappointed not to be testing with the group i have been training with, but like a few higher belts have said, so I get my blue 3 or 4 months after the rest of my class, yet if i enter 3 tournaments over that time i will likely have 10+ matches under my belt. With how long everyone stays a blue belt, in 3 months basically my fellow training partners and I are all on the same level again, only I have the invaluable expereince of having competed a few times. Expereince i wouldnt feel comfortable trying to get right now as a blue belt.

In my opinion it has to. I am a white belt, been training for about a year. I have done 1 tournament, (won a match, lost a match). I am on the list to test for blue belt next week. I have decided not to test so that i can compete some more over the next 2 months as a white belt. I am finally at a level where i feel 1/2 way comfortable enough to enter, but i definetly could not enter as a blue. While i want to test with all the guys i have been training with, i think the chance to get some tournament experience is invaluable, regardless of what your long-term goal is in BJJ. Am i wrong not to test. My instructor is cool with it and understands. Am i right that competing can greatly help advance your game. Some of the guys are saying, just test and wait another year to compete. I dont see why i shouldnt take the opportunity to get some experience in now. To me waiting a few months to be a blue belt is well worth the experience of entering 3 or 4 tournaments. By the way, i am in no way sandbagging, im not that good, just finally at a level where i feel confident enough to give it a shot and gain some experience.